""Yes, Murray Rothbard believed in freedom, and yes, David Koresh believed in God," he remarked acidly. Rothbard's sins according to Buckley? He cites Rothbard's disdain for a joke Buckley made about privatizing lighthouses, and also a scrupulosity that brought him to denounce such beloved figures as "Herbert Hoover, Ronald Reagan, Milton Friedman, and - yes - Newt Gingrich." Mea culpa! Mea culpa! How dare we critique the great Milton Friedman or Newt Gingrich?"
"But among other denunciations is Buckley's account of Rothbard rushing out to applaud Nikita Khrushchev on one of his visits to President Dwight Eisenhower, insinuating one last time that Rothbard was in bed with or insufficiently hostile to the communists. Rothbard remembered this differently; he hoped for peace talks between the two world leaders, and was shocked by the militant opposition National Review had to meeting the "butcher of Ukraine.""
William F. Buckley Jr. publicly denounced Murray Rothbard at Rothbard's death, likening libertarianism to extremism with a caustic comparison. Buckley criticized Rothbard's rejection of a lighthouse-privatization joke and condemned Rothbard's denunciations of figures like Herbert Hoover, Ronald Reagan, Milton Friedman, and Newt Gingrich. Buckley also implied Rothbard applauded Nikita Khrushchev, suggesting insufficient hostility toward communists. Rothbard countered that he sought peace talks between Eisenhower and Khrushchev and was shocked by National Review's refusal to meet the "butcher of Ukraine." Fusionist conservatism and National Review practiced excommunication of the non-interventionist right. National Review opposed Cold War non-interventionists from its founding; John T. Flynn exemplified earlier non-interventionist conservatism.
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