The Origin of “Libertarian”

From the Mises Blog, Sept. 10, 2011. Archived comments below. [Update: see also Rothbard on Leonard Read and the Origins of “Libertarianism” (Nov. 17, 2014); and Wikipedia entry on libertarianism, claiming 1796 usage of “libertarian” in the political sense; see also SPRADING, “LIBERTY AND THE GREAT LIBERTARIANS”; Timo Virkkala, Grand Theft L-Word;  Jeffrey Tucker, “Where […]