Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment

Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment, Stephan Kinsella and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, eds. (forthcoming 2026). PFS is planning to publish a collection of tributes to and commentary on Rothbard, on the occasion of his 100th birthday on March 2, 2026, from several longtime PFS members (and a couple other non-PFS members), including many who knew him personally (indicated with an asterisk).

The contributors include (tentative):

• Hans-Hermann Hoppe^*, Preface
• Saifedean Ammous
• Jeffrey Barr^*
• Juan F. Carpio
• Jeff Deist
• Thomas J. DiLorenzo,^* “The Inspiring and Courageous Intellect of Murray Rothbard”
• David Dürr
• Douglas E. French,^* Remembering Murray Rothbard: Teacher, Friend, and Inspiration
• Alessandro Fusillo
• Sean Gabb
• Hans-Hermann Hoppe^*, Coming of Age with Murray
• Jörg Guido Hülsmann^*
• Lee Iglody^*
• Stephan Kinsella,^* “Mises, Rothbard, Hoppe: An Indispensable Framework”
• Thorsten Polleit
• George Reisman^*
• Josef Šíma
• Rahim Taghizadegan, “Murray N. Rothbard and the Demystification of Economics”
• Jeffrey A. Tucker,^* “The Murray Rothbard I Knew”

Biographical

• Wikipedia
• Mises Institute bio
• Rothbard.it bibliography
• Rothbard, Young Murray Rothbard: An Autobiography
• Rothbard, “What’s Wrong with the Liberty Poll; or, How I Became a Libertarian,” Liberty (July, 1998), p. 52
• Rothbard, The Essential Rothbard, David Gordon, ed. (2007)
• Rothbard, The Betrayal of the American Right (2007)
• Gerard Casey, Murray Rothbard (Continuum, 2010)
• Roberta Modugno, The Legacy of Murray N. Rothbard: Libertarian and Austrian Economist  (Springer Nature, 2025)
• Justin Raimondo, Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard (2000)
• ——, Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement (2008)
• Brian Doherty, Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement (2008)
• ——, Modern Libertarianism: A Brief History of Classical Liberalism in the United States (2025)
• Joe Salerno and Patrick Newman, Murray N. Rothbard: The Making of an Austrian Economist (Mises Institute, forthcoming)

Correspondence

• Rothbard, “Rothbard’s Confidential Memorandum to the Volker Fund, ‘What Is To Be Done?’,” Libertarian Papers 1, 3 (2009)
• Rothbard, Murray N. Rothbard vs. The Philosophers: Unpublished Writings on Hayek, Mises, Strauss, and Polanyi, Roberta A. Modugno, ed. (2009)
• Rothbard, Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard, David Gordon, ed. (2010)
• Joseph T. Salerno, “Rothbard: These Are the Best Libertarian Educators,” Mises Wire (05/24/2017) (Rothbard, letter to F.A. “Baldy” Harper (July 9, 1961)
• Daniel J. Flynn, “Letters to Frank Meyer Reveal Rothbard’s Views on Lincoln, Slavery, and Popular Sovereignty,” Mises Wire (10/07/2025)
• ——, “Rothbard, Populism, and the Elites,” Mises Wire (10/14/2025) (re memo to Frank Meyer, September 12, 1955)
• ——, “New Rothbard Letters Show His Early Opposition to both Nixon and Reagan,”Mises Wire (10/22/2025)
• ——, “New Rothbard Letters Show He Rejected both Drug Abuse and the Drug War,” Mises Wire (10/27/2025)
• ——, “Murray Rothbard’s Lost Letters on Ayn Rand,” J.  Libertarian Stud. 29, no. 2 (2025): 35–50
• Rothbard, “Mises and Rothbard Letters to Ayn Rand,” J. Libertarian Stud. 21, no. 4 (Winter 2007): 11–16
• Rothbard, The Essential Rothbard, David Gordon, ed. (2007)

Past tributes/obituaries/memories

• Murray N. Rothbard: In Memoriam (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 1995) (various authors)
• “Rothbard Remembered,” Liberty (March, 1995): 20–26 (various authors)
• Douglas E. French, “Rothbard as Teacher,” Liberty (May 1995), p. 14, 69
• Carl Oglesby, “Rothbard the isolationist,” Liberty (May 1995), p. 14
• Hoppe, Murray Rothbard, R.I.P., The Free Market 13, no. 3 (March 1995)
• Harry C. Veryser, “Murray Rothbard: In Memoriam,” The Intercollegiate Review 31, no. 1 (Fall 1995): 41
• William F. Buckley Jr., Murray Rothbard, RIP, National Review (Feb. 6, 1995)
  • Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., William F. Buckley, Jr., RIP, LewRockwell.com (Feb. 27, 2008)
  • ——, Murray Rothbard Soars, Bill Buckley Evaporates, LewRockwell.com (March 29, 2016)
  • David Gordon, A Birthday Tribute to William F. Buckley, Jr., LewRockwell.com (Nov. 17, 2005)
• Thomas Fleming, Murray Rothbard, R.I.P., Chronicles (April 1995)
• Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard, Walter Block and Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., eds. (Mises Institute, 1988)¹
• Hoppe, Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe, an Anti-Intellectual Intellectual (Syahdan, 2008) and others in Hoppe Biography
• Wendy McElroy, Murray N. Rothbard: Mr. Libertarian, LewRockwell.com (July 6, 2000)
• Sheldon Richman, Murray Rothbard, FEE.org (March 24, 2010)
• Hoppe Awarded the Murray N. Rothbard Medal of Freedom (2015)
• Hoppe, “Coming of Age with Murray” (Mises Institute 2017) (youtube)
• Matt Zwolinski, Seven Cheers for Murray Rothbard, Bleeding Heart Libertarians (Oct. 28, 2013)
• PFP129 | Memories: Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) as Mentor and Teacher, Hoppe, DiLorenzo, French, Iglody (PFS 2015)
• John Ganz, “The Forgotten Man: On Murray Rothbard, philosophical harbinger of Trump and the alt-right,” The Baffler (Dec. 15, 2017)
• Gary North, “Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State: a Memoir,” Power & Market (04/13/2018)
• Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., “Rothbard Was Right,” Mises Daily (July 4, 2019)
• David Gordon, Murray Rothbard RIP, Mises Daily (01/07/2019)
• ——, Remembering Murray Rothbard, Chronicles (Dec. 2019)
• Anthony G. Flood, “The quadrancentennial of Murray Rothbard’s passing”  (Jan. 8, 2020)
• Roberta Modugno, “How I Discovered Murray Rothbard,” Mises Wire (03/03/2021)
• PFP252 | Bonus: Murray Rothbard as a Teacher: The UNLV Years—A Panel with Rothbard’s Former Students (AERC2023)
• Anthony G. Flood, “Joe Sobran’s encomia for Murray Rothbard” (March 12, 2025)

1. See The Free Market (June 1986), p. 2, listing papers in “Man, Economy, and Liberty: A Conference in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard.” See also: Jeffrey Tucker and Lew Rockwell, “Man, Economy, and Liberty” (17 November 2009) (Tucker interviews Rockwell about Rothbard’s festschrift, published in 1986 in honor of Rothbard’s sixtieth birthday); Rothbard, Man, Economy, and Liberty (1 March 1986) (Rothbard comments and responds to the speakers and papers presented at the “Man, Economy and Liberty” colloquium hosted by the Mises Institute; backup Youtube); Hoppe, Book Review of Walter Block and Llewellyn H.Rockwell, Jr., eds., Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard, Rev. Austrian Econ. (Vol. 4 Num. 1, 1989). [↩]