Last week, Reason Foundation co-founder Tibor Macham died. Manny Klausner, another co-founder, remembers him:
Tibor gave me excerpts from Atlas Shrugged to read. Although he was a devoted admirer of her work, Tibor had been “excommunicated” by Rand in the 1960’s for a letter he sent to her to clarify a question he had. But he kept in contact with Nathaniel Branden, who actively marketed Rand’s work and developed an international movement for her philosophy of Objectivism.
Tibor arranged to interview Branden for Reason in 1971—a significant journalistic achievement, because it was Branden’s first public statement after his dramatic split with Rand in 1968. We actively promoted the Branden interview, and this led to a major increase in new subscribers for Reason.
At the time, no one had any sense of “the libertarian moment.” Rather, it wasn’t unusual to be referred to as a libertine—and I was once even mistakenly introduced as a librarian.
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