Iraqi Death by Political Abstraction, by Sheldon Richman, 5 Jun 2006
Related Topics: Haditha Massacre, Personal Responsibility
"In 1951, during the Korean War, the libertarian Leonard E. Read, a veteran of World War I and founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, looked at this issue in a particularly moving way. In his essay 'Conscience on the Battlefield,' Read imagined a dialogue between himself as an American soldier dying on the battlefield and his own conscience. ..."

The Early History of FEE, by Henry Hazlitt, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Mar 1984
Related Topics: Foundation for Economic Education, Floyd A. "Baldy" Harper

Writings

Conscience on the Battlefield, 1951

How To Get Action, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, May 1955

I, Pencil: My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read, Dec 1958
Library of Economics and Liberty, Introduction by Milton Friedman, Afterword by Donald J. Boudreaux

I, Pencil, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Dec 1958

William Henry Chamberlin, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Nov 1969
Related Topic: William Henry Chamberlin
"Though he wrote nearly a score of books, he remained essentially a newspaperman. In a career that spanned half a century, he traveled extensively, meeting people, asking questions, shaping and reshaping his own views. ... Through it all Mr. Chamberlin remained ebullient, ever confident that man, given time and proper leadership, could find his way through the wilderness."