Tomorrow evening, as mentioned at the top of the previous posting, there’ll be a talk at my home given by Antoine Clarke. The subject will be the efforts of the new Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia to liberalise (libertarianise?) his country.
During this talk, Antoine will be referring back to an old Libertarian Alliance pamphlet I remember publishing, way back before The Internet, by Murray Rothbard, entitled Four Strategies For Libertarian Change.
I have already supplied a link to my email list of potential attenders to the pdf version of this piece.
I simultaneously apologised that there was no html version to be accessed. But now there is. One of the intending-to-attend attenders tomorrow (thanks Andrew) has converted the pdf file of Rothbard’s piece into this html file.
This was either easy, in which case I congratulate Andrew for being clever. Or, it was hard, in which case I think Andrew for being industrious. I’m guessing, a bit of both. There are a few punctuational oddities that the software I used to read this got a bit confused by, but if that happens to you, there’s nothing that can’t be read past pretty easily.
LATER: The above niggle about punctuation seems now to have been entirely corrected by Andrew, with a revised version of the file. Andrew, thanks again.
You guess correctly, quite a few clever bits (or at least emacs macros), quite a bit of tedious fixing line endings and hyphenation. The main problem you see is character encoding — changing the first line from to should fix that.
Ah, not unexpectedly wordpress ate the html instead of escaping it. You need to change, um, why don’t I just send it again.
Andrew
Brilliant. I deleted the earlier version and uploaded the new version, and all now seems well.
Thanks again for all the help. Most encouraging.
The result may well be all sorts of people reading this Rothbard piece, who won’t be coming anywhere near the meeting itself. That sort of effect being one of the big reasons to do meetings in the first place.