During the 1950’s and early 1960’s Murray N. Rothbard was writing “private” book reviews in his capacity as a research analyst for the Volcker Fund. Towards the end of his tenure in this position Rothbard penned reviews of Strauss’s What is Political Philosophy? Thoughts on...

This paper undertakes to make some comparative observations on the thought of Murray N. Rothbard and Leo Strauss. It hinges around Rothbard and Strauss’s different views on such subjects as the philosophy of Hobbes, Locke and Hume, the meaning of natural law, natural rights, and natural...