When Gülçin and I, in May of 2006, opened the Karia Princess for the first meeting of the Property and Freedom Society (PFS), many questions, organizational as well as substantive, had been still unresolved in our minds. It took years of experimenting and learning: of defining, refining and fine-tuning the very product that now is the PFS and its annual salon.2
Throughout all changes occurring during the last 20 years of its existence, however, the PFS has remained steadfast in its commitment to what is now widely known as “Austro-Libertarianism,” the social philosophy developed and represented in the 20th century most prominently by Murray N. Rothbard. In the following chapter I have given an account of my personal association with Rothbard during the last decade of his life, from 1985 to 1995, in New York City and Las Vegas. Here it suffices to say that I learned first-hand from Rothbard’s personal example what was then to become the ethos and trademark of the PFS: uncompromising and interdisciplinary intellectual radicalism—the fearless pursuit of truth, justice and beauty.
Today, on March 2, 2026, Rothbard would have celebrated his 100th birthday. Given his status as one of the patron saints of the PFS, we deemed …read more
Source:: Ron Paul Institute