Rothbard explaining why he had to name names and attack people:

“So you see, Bob [Kephart], my deviation from proper attention to my career image is lifelong, and it is too late to correct at this point. I’m sure that if, in Ralph [Raico]’s phrase, I had been ‘careful,’ and followed wise advice, I would now be basking in lots of money, prestige, and ambiance. … Why did I take the wrong course?… If there had been lots of libertarians who were anarchists, lots who were antiwar, lots who named names of the ruling elite, lots attacking Hoover, Friedman, etc., I might not have made all these choices, figuring that these important tasks were being well taken care of anyway, so I may as well concentrate on my own ‘positioning.’ But at each step I looked around and saw indeed that nobody else was doing it. So then it was up to me.”

~Lew Rockwell, Mises.org

Well, it’s funny, because those are the exact words I’ve  used wondering why I was putting down things on this blog more explicitly than might be considered judicious…

Including the stuff about Paul and Rothbard.