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fp/hen Ed Crane drives around !(ashing- It/ ton, he gets depressed. He sees all V Y those massivegovernment buildings, those "giant marble edifices," and he thinks of all thosebureaucrats inside. all those"thousands of people employed doing work that is counter- productive," not in his interest, not for his safe- ty, and God knows, not for his wallet. "Bureaucracy is a bad thing," he saysfrom be- \r\rcf WRMK Londerc

f!|Z/hen Ed Crane drives around Washing- ll/ ton. he gets depressed. He sees all V V those massive government buildings, those "giant marble edifices," and he thinks of all those bureaucrats inside, all those "thousands of people employed doing work that is counter- productive," not in his interest, not for his safe- ry, and God knows, not for his wallec "Bureaucracy is a bad thing," he says from be. hind his desk in an elegant town house on Sec- ond Street Southeast, with the James Madison Building of the Library of Congress looming ominously outside his windows. "Government, whatever it does, is doing it be- caus€ people won't do it voluntarily. They don't want to. The government has become so large, so dangerous to our civil liberties, to our eco- nomic prosperity, to our ability to live. Be- cause," he continues, "they're going to start a war one of these days, and it's all, it just doesn't have to be, because if this country had followed the principles on which it was founded . . ." And on he goes in his libertarian larnent. Crane, tall, conservatively dressed, a former athlete (at Berkeley in the mid-'@s), is the presi- dent of the Cato Institute. a small think tank de- voted to the production oflibenarian thoughts. As he moves about Washington these days, however. Crane chants the blues about more C-ondnued on lnge 8

The Triclls crnd Trcr.gedigsoI Becoming crStclr enioyed a bit of electoral success Continuedfrompage I in the congenially robust tundra From Cult to Respectabili,tythan iust the bureaucratic kvia- of Alaska than. For his own party, his polit- And it did this with a simple ical party, the young party of philosophy: If the Republicans zealots that he brought so near to tend to believe government is and,BackAgain: Ihe respectability-the Libertarian hopelessly inept in its social Party-has run off to Texas and works at home, and the Demo left him, apparently forever. crats tend to believe government Ii,bertariansHaae It was Crane who had brought is hopelessly inept in its martial Ru,n S(ashington. ventures abroad. Libertarians the Libenarians to "lf you're going to be serious will gladly agree with both and about being a political pany," he believe all government is hope- Oflfto Texasand, says, "that's where you should lessly inept. be." There was an attractive consis- And it was Crane, perhaps tency, an exhilarating sweep, to more than any other person, who this perspective. But within the Ieft Pragmnti,sm was responsible for the transfor- Libertarian Party, Crane found Behind mation of this sect that exalted his fellow Libertarians too often the individual above society into straying from "the real wodd, in a thriving, albeit still minor, po- the name, always, of puriry." The litical party. party last surffner decisively re- In a scant eight years after its iected Crane and his "real-wodd- founding in 1972, the Libertar- ism" (as he termed it), abandoned byRobert K l^anderc ian Parry accomplished the mir- Vashington and all it repre- acle of gening on the ballot in sented and romped off to Hous- every state in the nation and even ton. acle of getting on the ballot in sented and romped off to Hous- every state in the nation and even ton.

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THE WASHINGTONWEEKLY "They're a cult again," Crane too eniunored of the Eastern es- 1975 and moved theparty's head- Ultimately, 1980 proved to be nothing had been accomplished declares, "which is what they tablishment and facally tainted quarcers to Vashingon. He had adisappointment ro rhe Libertar- in return. And they blamed were when I dragged them out by association with Crane, the brought professionals and busi- ians. The emergence of Republi- Crane. of it, kicking and screaming." tough political organizer from nessmen, some of them quite can John Anderson as an inde- For some time, suspicious Lib- California wealthy, into the party, and had pendent presidendal candidate ertarians had spoken darkly of Crane, who had been a dele- produced the surprisingly pre- kept their own nominee in the the "Koch-topus," whose tenta- gate to the first Libertarian con- sentable candidacies of Roger shadows, and Clark had ended cles included the Caro Institute t took Georgetown profes- vention, had chaired the pany MacBride in1976 and Clark four up with only 1.1 percent of the and, Inquiry magazine (of which sor Ead C. Ravenal about during the mid-'70s and run Cali- years later. (In Alaska, in fact, national vote. as contrasted with Crane was the original publish- half a day to make the awe- fornia lawyer Ed Clark's cam- Clark had captured l2 percent of Anderson's 6.6 percent. Libertar- er) and whose head was in rWichi- some decision that he would run paign for president in 1980. He the vote, and two Libenarians ian purists triumphantly com- ta, Kan., in the person of multi- for president of the United had quit his iob as an investment had even been elected to the state plained rhar anri-governmenr millionaire Charles G. Koch. States. Or, more exactly, that he manager in San Francisco in legislature.) doctrine had been diluted-and The chairman of Koch Indus- would run as the Libertarian Par- tries (a giganric conglomerate ty's nominee for president of the that, according to Fortune maga- United States. zine, has "all the basic elements A Floridian named Gene of an oil major . . . as well as vast Burns, whose most conspicuous catde ranches and other real-es- prior service in freedom's cause tate holdings") has long been a had been as host of a radio talk Tbe anti-goaerrtment Liber- lavish benefactor of libertarian show in Odando, had long tarians moaed to'Vasbington causes. seemed to be the pa$y's predes- But now arnong disgruntled tined nominee for 1984. But sud- on a u)aae of popular Libertarians, the bitter talk was denly, less than a week before the fascina- of Crane, of the Crane machine, part'"s convention was to com- tion a -ft* years Ago. Tben indeed. of "the Crane-iacs." And mence in New York last sum- Ravenal, who had hoped to be a mer. Burns turned out to be all carne tbe crack-up. Tbis is tbe great Libenarian unifier, wrts talk. Moaning about money, he unable to ov€rcome-at least took himself off the political air. story of utbat bappened. without entirely disavowing Friends and associates soon be- Crane, which he refused to do- gan telephoning Ravenal at his the simple perception rhat he comfortable home on Cathedral was the Crane-iacal candidate. Avenue Northwest, imponun- Even Ed Clark, v,'hoae 1980 ing him to run. He would make, campaign Crane had run-and they thought, an impressive can- whose wife, Alicia Ctark. had didate: high-minded and serious, been elected party narional articulate and affable; a promi- chairman in l98l as a "unity" nent advocate of U.S. "strategic candidate-opposed Ravenal disengagement" from the world and the Crane-iacs. mence in New York last sum- tbe great Libertarian unifier, was mer, Burns catTte tbe cra;E:;i. fE;t ;t tutned out to be dl unable to overcome-at least talk. Moaning about rnoney, he story of ubat bappened. without took himself off the political air. entirely disavowing Friends and associates soon be- Crane. which he refused to de gan telephoning Ravenal at his the simple perception that he comfortable home oo Cathedral was the Crane-iacal candidate. Avenue Nonhwest, importun- Even Ed Clark, '^'hose 1980 ing him to run. He would make, campaign Crane had ru*-and they thought, an impressive can- whose wife. Alicia Clark, had didate: high-minded and serious, been elected party national aniculate and affable; a promi- chairman in l98l as a "unity" nent advocate of U.S. "strategic candidate-opposed Ravenal disengagement" from the wodd and the Crane-iacs. and a former Defense Depart- Despite this, Ravenal did man- ment official; a respected profes- age, over four ballots, to get sor of international relations at within hailing distance of the the Georgetown School of For- nomination. (Even many in the eign Service and an activeLibrl- hippie caucus defied the party's carian who had advised 1980 preeminent pamphleteer, the presidential candidate Ed Clark movement's diminutive Tom on foreign policy; a former New Paine, economist Murray Roth- England businessman; and a bard of New York, and sided graduate of Harvard (summa with the dovish Georgetown cum laude) andJohns Hopkins. professor.) But the nomination Ravenal was slightly hard of went to a Libertarian purist, Da- hearing and perhaps a shade too vid Bergland of Costa Mesa, easily annoyed at inconvenience, Calif., a lawyer who had been the but it did not seem at all far- parry's vice-presidential nomi- fetched to suppose that he would nee in 1976 an,d who was, in make a superb Libertarian candi- Crane's estimation, "a knee-ierk date. He mused upon the pros- Libertarian who has very litle pect from Friday night until knowledge of specific issues but midday Saturday, and then, with has his slogans down." the convention two days away, Vith the defeat, the dispirited he resolved to run. pragmatists, the preppies, the Ravenal ventured forth, con- Libertarians in three-piece suirs vinced that he had no real ene- i watched as the party's apparatus mies in the Libertarian world of t was virtually taken over by the rednecks, hippies, and preppies, rednecks and Rothbardian radi- as the active inhabitants of the cals-the Libertarians who kept parry's right, left and center, re- their minds pure vesselsof sacred spectively, were sometimes anti-government dogma. called. The new Libertarian Party rul- He believed that his candidacy ers lost little time in deciding to would serve to unite the party's move the party's headquamers, rival factions, bring pragmatists which had been on upper Vis- rVashing- and purists together in near-per- consin Avenue, out of fect harmony. As it turned out, ton, the very lair of the kvia- however, his candidacy did pre- than, and down to the sweet- cisely the opposite: It served to smelling grnssroots of Houston, split the party asunder. away from Crane and his ma- As Ravenal soon discovered chine and his Cato Institute. with some shock. he was. in the "In terms of the internal align- rednecks'eyes, just another prep ment of the party, the personal- pie face, a compromised centrist ities. and the vision of what the Too row' Ed Crane, Robert Nozick,Joan Kennedy Taylor,Munay Bothbard, WalterGrinder, John Hospers: Bottomrow: ThomasSzasz. Friedrich A. Hayek, Roger MacBride, Roy A. Childs, Jr', Balph Baico, Bill Evers

SEPTEMBER17. 1984 party should be and what liber- tarianism should be," Ravenal observed, looking back on what had happened last summer, "ev- erything turned all at once." It was not unlike, except of corrse in scale, what had hap pened neady 20 years before to the Republican party when it de- cided that exrremism in the de- fense of libeny was no vice and offered Barry Goldwarer to America. In pondering the fate of the Ubertarian Party, Ravenal re- flected, one is almost inexorably drawn back to "Robert Frost's image of the road nor taken. And so there was a fork in the road. And one path leads to anoiher. You never ger back."

ome Libertarians thought d that Vashington was not best place for them. But not Sheldon Richman, erstwhile vice chairman of the parry and Earl Ravenal (left), the Libertarians' erstwhile candidate associate editor of Inqairy : "You Rep. Ron Paul (above), Libertarian on the Hill can't fight from afar." Richman, an arniable, self-de- scribed "philosophical anarchist" from Philadelphia, first cnme to \Tashington to do batde with the rior, Anderson, on the develbp. ly, still seemed to bear an omi- governmental behemoth in late ment of actual policy, especially nous resemblzrnce to a magazine 1979, after some years of ideolog- professor when it czrme to such charged of leftist heresy. ically restrained toil as a newspa- It took Georgetoutn matters as draft registration. Before 1982 was many months per reporter in the environs of Earl C, Rauenal about balf a Bandow's pauon departed in old-and after Inquiry had his native city. Growing up in a frustration in eady 1982,'by moved to Washington, been sep- conservative Republican family, da.y to make the au)esomedeci- which time Crane had brought arated from Cato. absorbed a he had been eady awakened by the Cato Institute and lnquiry kindred iournal, Libertarian Re- the Goldwater light and later, as sion tbat be utould runfor pres- magazioe from San Fraocisco to oieut, and become a publication aTemple collegian, had run with Washington. Vithin monrhs, of the Ubertarian Review Foun- the Buckley-esque Young Amer- ident of tbe United States, Bandow abandoned rhe Reagan dation (on whose board were icans for Freedom before pro- revolution for a disheveled office Crane and Koch's brother David. gressing to full-fledged libenar- in a remote Capirol Hill town among others)-Garvin was ian apostasy. sophy to people around her+ below ground, however. Doug house and for whatever insurrec- fired and replaced by young He came to Ifashington to it's their livelihood." Bandow, a bright young con- tionary powers hight be con- Bandow, fresh from the Reagan work for the Council for a Com- On the other hand, he remem- servative-turned-libertarian who tained in the porrfolio ofthe edi- revolution. petitive Economy, a modest but bered. there was the time in 1980 graduated from Stanford law tor of Inqairy, The magazine, its frequency heroic lobby that would like when he was riding the Memo school in 1979, was sufficiently The libenarian magazine had decreased from 20 issues a year to businessmen to prefer abstract and wearing a Clark button and practical-minded to turn down begun life on the !/est Coasr in 12, now became more forthright- principle to tangible profit, and "a fellow carne up to me and said, an offer from Ed Crane to work late 1977 as a principal product ly libertarian, 'Oh, even acquiring a another supposed tentacle of the I've seen his commercials. for the Clark campaign and ro of the Cato Insrirute, which that subtitle,' A Libertarian Review." dread Koch-topus. In his early I'm a Libertarian.' And the guy aqcept one from the floover In- year had from the And the ernlrhasis shifted from months here. Richman often worked for the Social Securitv stitution's Martin Andemn m conservatlve laepuDucan riuurr y' J'I'{I,J 9U ,rtotK's and Inquiry kindred Libertart4n Ke- he had been eady awakened by the Cato Institute iournal, uieu,, and become a publication the Goldwater light and later, as siontbat beu,,ould runfor pres- magazine from San Francisco to aTemple collegian, had run with Vashington. $(/ithin months' of the Libenarian Review Foun- the Buckley-esque Young Amer- ident of tbe United States. Bandow abandoned the Reagan dation (on whose board were icans for Freedorn before pro- revolution for a disheveled office Crane and Koch's brother David, gressing to full-fledged libertar- in a remote Capitol Hill town among others)-Garvin was ian apostasy. sophy to people around here- below ground, however. Doug house and for whatever insurrec- fired and replaced by young He came to lWashington to it's their livelihood." Bandow, a bright young con- tionary powers might be con- Bandow, fresh from the Reagan work for the Council for a Com- On the other hand, he remem- servative-turned-libertarian who tained in the portfolio ofthe edi- revolution. petitive Economy, a modest but bered, there was the time in 1980 graduated from Stanford law cor of lnqairy. The magazine, its frequency heroic lobby that would like when he was riding the Metro school in 1979, wa.;ssufficiently The libenarian magazine had decreased from 20 issues a year to businessmen to prefer abstract and wearing a Clark button and practical-minded to turn down begun life on the Vest Coast in 12, now became more forthright- ptinciple to tangible profit, and "a fellow came up to me and said, an offer from Ed Crane to work late 1977 as a principal product ly libertarian, even acquiring a 'Oh, anorher supposed tentacle of the I've seen his commercials. for the Clark campaign and to of the Cato Institute. which that subtitle, "A Libertarian Review." dread Koch-topus. In his early I'm a Libertarian.'And the guy accept one from the Hoover In- year had emerged from the And the emphasis shifted from months here, Richman often worked for the Social Security stitution's Martin Anderson ro chrysalis of the inactive Charles investigative repofting to po- found himself involved in heated Administration. There are work to elect Ronald Reagan. G. Koch Foundation. But there lemical analysis. Heretics of the 'moles' political argument after work, in throughout the bureau- Bandow ended up on the l(hite was something rather odd about right, such as supply-sider Paul bars and elsewhere. "It's not al- cracy." House staff with a title having to the slick semimonthly that pro- Craig Roberts, soon became as ways so much fun," he recalled Not all libertarians on the pay- do with "policy development" fessed to be beyond left and much in evidence as those of the recently. "This is not iust philc. roll of the great enemy remain and as little influence as his supe- right, not to mention center. The left. lnquiry seemed at last to magazine's devotion to free en- have found its true, if synthetic, terprise was so extensively con- self. cealed as to make the young pub- The question, however, was lication appear very much like a how attractive to the general YOUIINOWMANT. brash new iournal of the left, reader that unvaryingly anti- complete with Marcus Raskin, government self was. Two years Noam Chomsky, et al. Indeed, so after the change in editors and DRINKING IS great was its lefty appearance emphasis, Inquiry's circulation that Natiornl Reaieut attacked it was down (to about 15,000 at last in a cover story in June 1979. But count, according to Bandow); its DESTROTTNGHERIJFE. the left did not embrace the mag- frequency suddenly funher de- azine either: MotberJoncs raised, creased to l0 issues a year, and its Mory is someone you know, someone whose hell about Inquiry ih May 1980. publisher, Chris Hocker, g(xre drinkrng hos reoched ond possed the problem stoge. I(ithin a year of the National and many months later still not Drinkrng could costMory her job, her fomily, Reoieu' attack, although proba- replaced. The Koch munificence bly more for reasons of internal was turning out to have its limits. ond your friendship. Inqairy polirics, editor Bill Evers As June approached, Doug Ban- was fired. An interim editor, dow told me that the July issue Youcon heip. PRMAVERA is o comprehensive Ronald Hamowy, exited after might well be ln4uiry's last. And progrqm serving the Woshington, DC, oreo with some months in what was de- so in fact, it proved to be. uibed as "an absolute rage." A offordoble treotment for olcoholism ond reloted third editor, Glenn Garvin, a for- problems. PRMAVERA treotment progroms ore mer Miami Herald reponer, then virginal two-volume edi- desrgned to minimize time lost from \ rork orld fomily tried to turn Inqairy away from, tion of the libertarian -trecrtment the left and into a showcase of Cato's l-etters stood en- ts prc-{de.l in both conveniei-riRosslyn, iconoclastic repoffage. He suc- tirely alone on the mantelpiece Vlrginio on on outpotient bosis ond in o scenic ceeded at least in making the above the empty fireplace in the residentiolsetting in the ioothillsof Virginio'sBlue magazine interesting to a broad- reception room ofthe Cato Insti- rVritten glving er audience. Circulation soared, tute. in the eady 18th RidgeMountorns. Ycu cqn help by us c coli from about 7.000 to more than century by two British Inde- ond we wili tell you how PRIMAVERAcon heip the three times that number. pendent Vhigs, John Trenchard Buc Inqairy, for its elaboration and Thomas Gordon, Cato's ltt- of the libertarian orthodory, has ters had. been, according to the always had to rely heavily on her- late historian Clinton Rossiter. etics. And Garvin's Inquiry, "the most popular, quotable, es- when viewed through a right- teemed source of political ideas" minded libertarian's glass, dark- in colonial America.

THE WASHINGTONWEEKLY Ed Crane before learned about "the Crane ma- look outward, to discuss concrete long, bearing a visible resem- chine" and "the Crane-iacs" and issues as if they mattered more blance to the president of a col- heard an ousted Inquiry editor than doctrine, to reach out to lege fraternity warily entenain- " 0b, I'ae seenbis commercials, describe Crane as "a very hateful Americans and introduce them ing a visitor from the dean's of- guy." I finally decided that Earl to a reasonable form of libertar- fice. He led me upstairs to his I'm a LibertariAn,' And tbe Ravenal, giving his explanation ianism. office, where we talked about guy utorkedfor tbe Social Secu- for the "venomous hostility" to- "Crane's vision for the party." liberty's enthusiasts and the "real ward Crane at the convention, commented Ravenal. had been wodd" that he thought some of rity Administration. Tbere had provided the fairest assess- "the superior one, and I think the them had left behind. 'moles' ment: "Ed, in his career as essen- only really important one and vi- The nonprofit and tax-exempt are tbroughout tbe bu- tially a professional political or- able one." Cato Institute, whose thinkers ganiuer, of great talent I must But the Libertarian Party had are affiliated rather than resi- reaucracy," say, had of course alienated a lot chosen to spurn that vision. dent, seems nonetheless ade- of people. He tends to be a bit And so now Ed Crane was in quately equipped to sustain the quick-tempered and, in a way, the outer darkness. The outer quasi-scholarly life: It sponsors look as "libertarian," cold me that preiudiced person and sort of a authoritarian in his own style. darkness and the real world. conferences. forums. seminars he had always been "philosophi- classic know-nothing. . . [pauseJ And so he had cast some people Vashington. and lectures, and publishes rype- cally libertarian, ever since I can A lot of doctors are that way, out into the outer darkness, and But he does not plan to stay written monographs, printed remember, high school or earli- though. They're in chis environ- they never forgave hirn. Really, hete forever: "As soon as rve have newsletters, paperback comes er." rVhen he mentioned his fa- ment where they know every- when you think about it, why the government on its knees," he and the thrice-yeady Cato Jour- ther at one point, I asked about thing and everybody is subservi- should they?" told me, "l'm moving back to San tu.l.Cato's chief cites Ead Raven- the elder Crane's politics and was ent to them . . ." Yet that did not change the Francisco." I al's study on defense and Vash- surprised by the vehemence of The vehemence of that answer crucial fact that Crane had had a ington lawyer Peter J, Femara's the response: "Sort of knee.ferk kept coming back to mind in the vision for his party, that he had Robert K. lznders is awasbiagton on Social Security to suppoft his conservative ... lpauseJ A very days that followed, when I wanted the Libertarian Partv to frcelznce uriter. point that the institute does first- rate work that gets aftention. Yet libertarians and their ideas are hardly as popular today as they were when America was a British colony. Indeed, contem- porary Americans who exhibit an inflamed passion for liberty are often deemed utterly irrele- vant and. when much noticed at all, held up for merciless ridi- cule. The media, Crane observed, tend "to look at libertarians like they're in a zoo and create a laun- dry list of exotica to titillate their readers with, and not lisren to the broader issues that are being discussed. where there's some very important ideas being put forward." Of course. since so many libertarians seem to have so much difficulty remaining in the real world and embrace such "exotic" notions as the idea that national defense should be made a private matter, it is easy to see why the zoo cages are wheeled out. Indeed, so much has "libertar- ian"become Tt<>.iT"g :ft! -.:: rgaders with. and not listen to the broader issues that are being discussed, where there's sorne very important ideas being Put forward." Of course, since so many libertarians seem to have so much difficulty remaining in the real world and embrace such "exotic" notions as rhe idea that national defense should be made a private matter, it is easy to see why the zoo cages are wheeled out. Indeed, so much has "libertar- ian" become associated with "ex- otic" policy views, that Crane, as he informed me early on, now prefers the term "classical liber- al" to designate his outlook. The "principles" that undergird the "classical liberal perspective," he said, include "a dbsire for peace, THE WILSONQUARTERLY individual libeqry, and limited government, free enterprise." The newsmagmineof the world of ideas. "If there's a group politically, Only a handfulof magazinesstill nurtue the tradi- government,finance, art, philosophy,education, historically we could identify tion of intellectuallydistinguished journalism. But and literature. In addition, the Quorterlyreviews with, after the American Revo- just one;Ifte Wilson the more you Quarterly-combines un- than 500 important new books and articles lution, knosr, Tom Paine matchedresources year, you Mason and those fel- of the SmithsonianInstitution's each keeping abreastofthe bestreading in and George Woodrow Wilson presenfing lows," Crane reflected, "it's prob- InternationalCenter for Scholars, theEnglish language, and it to you in suc- ably the Old Right, where you $'ith the clear, lively writing that stimulatesand cinctsummary form. challengesmdern minds. had free-market people who Among the Quarterlyb best-knowncontributers: were anti-militariss." He was re- The result is a magazinewritten by scholarsand ex- John Updike, FernandBraudel, Carlos Fuentes, ferring to such figues as the late perts, but editedwith a perspectivethat appealsto a BarbaraTuchman, Hans Kung, GeorgeKennan, Robert Taft, the Ohio senator far broader audience.I/Q deliversa steadystream MichaelNovak, Philippe Arids, as "Mr. Republi- DavidRiesman, Ed- long regarded thought-provoking ward Wilson, can." of ideas, many of which will O. ThomasSowell. tomorrow's policies proposals. "Bill Buckley and the National shape and It is the More than I12,0malert subscribers find The lAilson Reaiew crowd." Crane contin- only communicationsbridge linking intelligent lay- indispensablereading in today's fast- men with the Quarterly ued. "turned conservatism into. specialistson the cutting edge of changingworld. 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