Karl Hess

Karl Hess

writer
welder
editing staff
editor
🇺🇸United States
⚛️Atheism
Libertarianism

Karl Hess was an American speechwriter and author. He was also a political philosopher, editor, welder, motorcycle racer, tax resister, and libertarian activist. His career included stints on the Republican right and the New Left before embracing a mix of left-libertarianism and laissez-faire anarcho-capitalism, a term which is attested earliest in his 1969 essay "The Death of Politics".

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1923 – 1994
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Born in
Washington, D.C.

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  • 1923

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  • 1994

    Died

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