{"id":10579,"date":"2026-03-15T14:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T19:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/?p=10579"},"modified":"2026-03-15T14:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T19:29:24","slug":"rip-brian-doherty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/rip-brian-doherty\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Brian Doherty"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Creative Commons photo by Gage Skidmore of Brian Doherty,<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

By Tom Jackson<\/p>\n

Libertarian author and journalist Brian Doherty, 57, has died. Reason Magazine has published an obituary.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

It seems likely that some of you have read his big history of modern libertarianism, Radicals for Capitalism<\/em>, or one of his other books, but there’s a more direct connection to the Libertarian Futurist Society: He was an expert on the Illuminatus!<\/em> trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, which won a Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. Here is a piece he wrote about it<\/a>, originally intended for the New York Times Book Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Creative Commons photo by Gage Skidmore of Brian Doherty, By Tom Jackson Libertarian author and journalist Brian Doherty, 57, has died. Reason Magazine has published an obituary.\u00a0 It seems likely that some of you have read his big history of modern libertarianism, Radicals for Capitalism, or one of his other books, but there’s a more … Continue reading RIP Brian Doherty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-obit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe8nGl-2KD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10581,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579\/revisions\/10581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}