Comments (33)

• eric lansing

  hell yeah

  what will the caption be?

  Revolution Within the Form?

  Published: October 4, 2007 5:11 PM

• jeffrey

  What about

  Profit's Prophet

  That's the title of a bio on him written years ago by Carl Ryant
  

  Published: October 4, 2007 5:16 PM

• eric lansing

  yeah, that's it...

  color?

  Published: October 4, 2007 5:48 PM

• James

  Isn't Gustave de Molinari next in line for the honor?

  Published: October 4, 2007 5:49 PM

• Daniel J Davis

  However it's styled, his name must be written as follows:

  Garet(t)

  That's all.

  Published: October 4, 2007 5:56 PM

• Chris Duggan

  In addition to de Molinari:

  Rose Wilder Lane
  Isabel Paterson
  John Flynn
  Benjamin Tucker

  Long shots:

  Laurence Labadie
  Ralph Borsodi
  Lysander Spooner

  Published: October 4, 2007 9:25 PM

• Spike

  Chris Duggan has the right idea.

  I suggest the next series should include:

  Gustave de Molinari
  Rose Wilder Lane
  Isabel Paterson
  Lysander Spooner

  I don't think there is much a of market for Garett, but Molinari and Spooner will definitely sell and it would be great to honor two of the greatest females devoted to liberty.

  Published: October 4, 2007 9:43 PM

• Geoffrey Allan Plauche

  "I don't think there is much a of market for Garett"

  Give it time. He was just rediscovered!

  Published: October 4, 2007 10:35 PM

• Ryan Taylor

  Garrett needs a t-shirt. Personally, I'd buy the Molinari and Spooner shirts.

  Published: October 4, 2007 10:43 PM

• M E Hoffer

  Garrett would be great.

  Spooner would be too.

  Could we get a different version of Bastiat, while we're at it?

  Also, are the republished works of Garrett a vMI imprint?

  Published: October 4, 2007 11:22 PM

• Sam

  I agree with the Molinari, Spooner, Paterson, and Wilder suggestions.

  I would add that Auberon Herbert deserves a t-shirt as well.

  Published: October 4, 2007 11:27 PM

• llp

  Here's a suggestion:

  Plagiarized by Ayn Rand

  (which refers, obviously, to the fact that Atlas Shrugged was a plagiarism of Garrett's "The Driver")

  Published: October 5, 2007 4:33 AM

• M E Hoffer

  ifeminists.net may be additional outlet for Rose Wilder Lane & Isabel Paterson T-shirts..

  see:
  http://www.cafepress.com/ifeminists

  Also, I'd bet that many of these shirts would be popular w/ RP'08 supporters, in general.

  Published: October 5, 2007 6:01 AM

• jeffrey

  I do wonder about the marketability of Molinari. It would help if his works were in print! But I gather there are trans problems with the old ones, and while R. Long is posting new ones, they are not yet in print.

  Lane is great. Same with these other suggestions.

  What's wrong with the Bastiat shirt? It is very popular.

  Published: October 5, 2007 8:50 AM

• M E Hoffer

  re: Bastiat, "Seen and Unseen" is much easier to explain to people not yet steeped in his works.

  I'll certainly believe that "Economic Harmonies" is popular, maybe a 'voice vote' on version 2 should be called (?) (they could run concurrently, no?)

  Published: October 5, 2007 9:16 AM

• 8

  Satan's Bushel.
  Garet Garett.

  Make it look like a heavy metal t-shirt.

  Published: October 5, 2007 9:30 AM

• ajax

  I would like to see a Bastiat shirt with Legal Plunder on the front and the definition on the back:
  Legal Plunder - "See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime...Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals"

  Ok, the quote may be too long, but I'm sure it can be abbreviated.

  Published: October 5, 2007 12:19 PM

• ama-gi

  I'd buy a Spooner shirt in a heartbeat.
  But what would the shirt say?
  "Vices are not crimes" is short enough.

  But I rather like,
  "A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. "
  even if it is longer than the phrases that typically appear on these shirts.

  Published: October 5, 2007 1:09 PM

• Koen

  I want a Frank Van Dun t-shirt.

  Published: October 5, 2007 1:29 PM

• Paul Edwards

  Spooner: "By the principles of law and reason".

  Published: October 5, 2007 2:00 PM

• R. Brazil

  I'm all for a Garett shirt.

  To readers of this blog, I heartily recommend Defend America First, a collection of his antiwar editorials for the Saturday Evening Post, edited by Bruce Ramsey. Garett is a fantastic writer. His editorials pull you in and paint a clear picture of what was happening at the time — in particular, the duplicitous nature of FDR, who promised peace while trying his best to pull America into the war.

  Garett also warns against the influence of the socialistic ideas that gave rise to the tyrannies in Europe being imported to the U.S. by the same people who were trying to drag this country into the war. Truly a prophet in more ways than one.

  Reading Garett reveals today's right wing as the mirror image of leftism that it is. He deserves to be better known.

  Published: October 5, 2007 2:50 PM

• jeffrey

  Here is one young person who has gone nuts for GG.
  

  Published: October 5, 2007 5:26 PM

• Denis

  I support Koen with the idea for a 'Frank Van Dun' T-shirt!!
  However, this first has to be asked on Frank Van Dun himself since he is still fighting for freedom.

  Published: October 6, 2007 8:31 AM

• happylee

  yes to GG and to Van Dun. And, as long as you are going to be on the phone with the tshirt printer, go ahead and order Hans Hoppe and Walter Block shirts.

  Published: October 6, 2007 7:10 PM

• Luke

  I'm just curious if anyone has had difficulties with the sizing of the tshirts? I ordered a couple of shirts in medium (a year or more ago) and they were way too big. I then ordered some smalls, but they were way too small.

  Has anyone else had any troubles with the sizing?

  I've ordered a number of shirts off of different places on the net and they've always fit fine (I order medium). For some reason, though, the various LvMI shirts I've gotten haven't fitted well at all..

  I really want to wear the shirts! I've got more than a dozen just sitting in my wardrobe - but they're unwearable! :(

  Published: October 7, 2007 9:19 PM

• jeffrey

  We've now been in contact with Luke and we are sending a new full set. Must make this one right!

  Published: October 7, 2007 9:47 PM

• twv

  I'd love a Garet Garrett shirt! The best prose stylist (discounting Mencken) amongst the Old Right Libertarians. The motto?

  "The Revolution Was"

  Easy to explain... "What does THAT mean?"

  "It means that the revolution that rid us of a republic already happened. America is already an empire. We lost."

  Molinari . . . I'd buy his, too. Motto? "Production of Security" or "Competitive government"?

  Why not Destutt de Tracy, Thomas Jefferson's favorite economist? Motto: "Exchange: Both Parties Gain"...

  And while you are down there in obscurity, dig up Arthur Latham Perry!

  
  

  Published: October 8, 2007 2:46 AM

• Spooner

  Luke-

  I have the exact same problem. The sizing, on the mediums at least, is way off in a way I've never seen before.

  The mediums are like a nightgown. Unwearable in their current size. I can't imagine the body type that these would fit well...

  Published: October 8, 2007 3:24 PM

• Daniel J. D'Amico

  I've got a hankering for a Molinari and Lachmann t-shirts

  Published: October 8, 2007 10:57 PM

• Randall McElroy III

  Those Hanes Beefy T´s run big all the time. I just went for a small and acknowledged that ladies were going to be ogling me when I wear it. It´s one of my favorite shirts, actually.

  I was going to join the chorus for the Molinari shirt, but since Dan wants it I changed my mind. Spooner would be great too.

  Published: October 10, 2007 4:55 PM

• Geoffrey Allan Plauche

  "Those Hanes Beefy T´s run big all the time."

  Too big, particularly in length and in the collar. The previous t-shirt design fit me much better. I need t-shirts that aren't too long and too narrow in the torso and aren't prefer them not being too loose in the collar.

  Published: October 10, 2007 10:30 PM

• Geoffrey Allan Plauche

  "and aren't prefer them not being too loose in the collar."

  And I prefer them not being too loose in the collar.

  Published: October 10, 2007 10:32 PM

• Geoffrey Allan Plauche

  I could go for Molinari, Spooner, and Garrett t-shirts if they aren't the oversized Hanes Beefy T's design.

  On an unrelated note, llp wrote: "Here's a suggestion: Plagiarized by Ayn Rand "(which refers, obviously, to the fact that Atlas Shrugged was a plagiarism of Garrett's "The Driver")"

  It's not plagiarized. There may be some similarities, a few aspects that are the same, but: 1) there is no evidence she had read The Driver, 2) there are major differences in plot, characters and events, 3) the writing is all her own: Atlas Shrugged is not simply a cheap knockoff of The Driver. Have you read either book or are you just regurgitating what you have seen others say? Do you have some other pre-existing reason you don't like Rand? Are you not aware that there are countless works of fiction that were influenced to varying degrees by earlier works of fiction and their authors are not accused of plagiarism?

  Published: October 10, 2007 11:28 PM