Tom Stoppard, who died recently at 88, was universally recognized as one of our greatest playwrights and screenwriters.
Yet, the Czech-British writer was also an avowed libertarian. While that lesser-known fact was mentioned over the years in some profiles and in a few obits, it deserves more attention.
Especially when one realizes that some of Stoppard’s greatest plays have libertarian themes and that he co-wrote the screenplay for Brazil, one of the most libertarian sf/fantasy films of the past four decades.