Murray N. Rothbard vs. the Philosophers - Ludwig von Mises Institute

CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE AND WORKS OF
MURRAY NEWTON ROTHBARD
1926. Murray Newton Rothbard is born in New York on
March 2, son of Jewish immigrants from Poland.
1942. Goes to Columbia University and at the end of the Second
World War becomes a member of the Young
Republican Club of New York. Rothbard is close to the
isolationist Old Right, which has, however, lost much
of its influence by this time.
1946. Is awarded a master’s degree in mathematics.
1949. Attends a seminar on the Austrian School of economics,
held by Ludwig von Mises at New York University.
1953. Marries JoAnn Schumaker.
1956. Is awarded a Ph.D. in economics under the guidance of
Joseph Dorfman; his thesis is The Panic of 1819:
Reactions and Politics. In this period he begins to contribute
to the journal Analysis, edited by Frank
Chodorov; to The Freeman, the periodical edited by
Henry Hazlitt; and to William F. Buckley’s National
Review.
1957. In the Southern Economic Journal, publishes the article
“In Defense of Extreme Apriorism,” a defense of
the deductive axiomatic approach of Ludwig von Mises.
1960. Is no longer able to maintain his position at National
Review, the main American conservative journal. His
attacks against the interventionist approach to communism
upheld by the editor, William F. Buckley, leads
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