Liberty magazine (aka Liberty Unbound) 23 year PDF archive now available FREE online

[emazur]

Liberty might be considered more of a libertarian journal than magazine, and isn't nearly as famous as Reason, but I think pretty much everyone here will find some worthwhile articles to read. The reason they're making the archive available free is b/c they're making the transition from print to online-only (new issues will also apparently be free). Download here:
DEC 2010 issue: http://www.libertyunbound.com/sites/...ber_2010_1.pdf
the rest: http://www.libertyunbound.com/archivesearch

Let me give you an example of something amazing they dug up way back - Greenspan in 1997 called to end the Fed:
"Deep-Cover Radical for Capitalism?", Liberty magazine Nov. '97
http://www.libertyunbound.com/sites/...ember_1997.pdf

Only a few months earlier, Greenspan
had recommended to a Senate committee
that economic regulations all
should be sunsetted. Senator Paul
Sarbanes accused him of "playing with
fire, or indeed throwing gasoline on
the fire," and asked him whether he
favored a sunset provision in the
authorization of the Fed. Greenspan
coolly answered that he did. Do you
actually mean, demanded the senator,
that the Fed "should cease to function
unless affirmatively continued"? "That
is correct, sir," Greenspan responded.
IIAll right," the senator came back.
liThe Defense Department?" "Yes."
The Senator could scarcely believe
his ears. "Now my next question is, is
it your intention that the report of this
hearing should be that Greenspan recommends
a return to the gold standard?"
Greenspan responded, "I've
been recommending that for years,
there's nothing new about that.... It
would probably mean there is only one
vote in the FOMC [Federal Open
Market Committee] for that, but it is
mine." This may be the first time that
advocating a policy on a nationally
televised Senate committee meeting
has been characterized as trying to
implement a policy "ever so quietly."

But wait, there's more! As long as I'm here, I'll point out some other freely available libertarian magazines online:
The I.P.A. Review - Australian libertarian magazine dating back to 1957, the archives from 2008 and earlier are available free in PDF:
http://www.ipa.org.au/about/review
The Freeman, a publication from the Foundation for Economic Education:
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/archive/
Rock Creek Free Press, a alternative monthly newspaper sold in DC that deals with, anti-state, libertarian, and political conspiracy issues:
http://www.rockcreekfreepress.com/
Republic Magazine, a monthly magazine for Constitutionalists and libertarians that also covers some conspiracy theory:
http://www.republicmagazine.com/digital-download
Liberty for America - don't know much about this one but it's in my bookmarks:
http://libertyforamerica.com/

[BuddyRey]

All the publications I love are going to online-only. I know this is progress, but I'm really going to miss that feeling of having a newspaper or magazine in my hands, and not straining the eyes out of my head just to read them. :-(

[emazur]

All the publications I love are going to online-only. I know this is progress, but I'm really going to miss that feeling of having a newspaper or magazine in my hands, and not straining the eyes out of my head just to read them. :-(

I also like physical copies of newspapers and magazines - I find them easier to browse, they are of course more portable, and like you I find some strain reading things on the screen (mostly long articles more than a page, short things are fine). But having the files is pretty nice b/c they take up no physical space and are easy to search by term - took me less than a minute to find that 13 year old Greenspan article.

[emazur]

bump

[Inflation]

Liberty is a great magazine. Reason is dumbed-down MSM Beltwartarian version.

Thanks for the info. I'll be printing these out, just in case something happens to the internets.

[emazur]

bump

[johnrocks]

Hey, thanks for the info.! All sites bookmarked!

[emazur]

bump (one more tomorrow then I'll shut up)

[gls]

Thanks for this. I used to subscribe and I always found it very well-written/thought-provoking. It's a shame it's going online only but I guess that's the path just about everything is going to end up taking eventually (hopefully sooner than later for trash rags like the NYT/WAPO).

[emazur]

final bump

[Omphfullas Zamboni]

Liberty might be considered more of a libertarian journal than magazine, and isn't nearly as famous as Reason, but I think pretty much everyone here will find some worthwhile articles to read. The reason they're making the archive available free is b/c they're making the transition from print to online-only (new issues will also apparently be free). Download here:
DEC 2010 issue: http://www.libertyunbound.com/sites/...ber_2010_1.pdf
the rest: http://www.libertyunbound.com/archivesearch

Let me give you an example of something amazing they dug up way back - Greenspan in 1997 called to end the Fed:
"Deep-Cover Radical for Capitalism?", Liberty magazine Nov. '97
http://www.libertyunbound.com/sites/...ember_1997.pdf



But wait, there's more! As long as I'm here, I'll point out some other freely available libertarian magazines online:
The I.P.A. Review - Australian libertarian magazine dating back to 1957, the archives from 2008 and earlier are available free in PDF:
http://www.ipa.org.au/about/review
The Freeman, a publication from the Foundation for Economic Education:
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/archive/
Rock Creek Free Press, a alternative monthly newspaper sold in DC that deals with, anti-state, libertarian, and political conspiracy issues:
http://www.rockcreekfreepress.com/
Republic Magazine, a monthly magazine for Constitutionalists and libertarians that also covers some conspiracy theory:
http://www.republicmagazine.com/digital-download
Liberty for America - don't know much about this one but it's in my bookmarks:
http://libertyforamerica.com/

Would you happen to have another source for the Greenspan quotes, aside from the magazine?

[emazur]

Would you happen to have another source for the Greenspan quotes, aside from the magazine?

No, though I"d hope it's somewhere in C-SPAN's (1997?) archives. I'd like to see that video myself, or at least a full transcript

[Imperial]

Liberty might be considered more of a libertarian journal than magazine, and isn't nearly as famous as Reason, but I think pretty much everyone here will find some worthwhile articles to read. The reason they're making the archive available free is b/c they're making the transition from print to online-only (new issues will also apparently be free). Download here:
DEC 2010 issue: http://www.libertyunbound.com/sites/...ber_2010_1.pdf
the rest: http://www.libertyunbound.com/archivesearch



But wait, there's more! As long as I'm here, I'll point out some other freely available libertarian magazines online:
The I.P.A. Review - Australian libertarian magazine dating back to 1957, the archives from 2008 and earlier are available free in PDF:
http://www.ipa.org.au/about/review
The Freeman, a publication from the Foundation for Economic Education:
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/archive/
Rock Creek Free Press, a alternative monthly newspaper sold in DC that deals with, anti-state, libertarian, and political conspiracy issues:
http://www.rockcreekfreepress.com/
Republic Magazine, a monthly magazine for Constitutionalists and libertarians that also covers some conspiracy theory:
http://www.republicmagazine.com/digital-download
Liberty for America - don't know much about this one but it's in my bookmarks:
http://libertyforamerica.com/

Liberty for America is run by George Phillies, a 2008 candidate for the LP presidential nomination and a longtime politico in the Massachusetts LP who has often criticized Ron Paul with quite harsh language. Liberty Unbound seems pretty good, though I haven't read it much. I know it is run by Lee Wrights, who recently formed an exploratory committee for the LP presidential nomination (he is a former vice-chair of the national LP)