Thanks to Claire Rydell Arcenas and Angus Burgin for their smart responses to my book, Burning Down the House.[1]  Burgin wonders why I focus on radical libertarianism, which “seem[s] increasingly marginal to present-day American political conversation.”  Arcenas asks what academic historians should take away from my work.  Burgin – and, elsewhere, Jennifer Burns[2] – press me to explain why I don’t say more about neoliberalism, or about Milton Friedman. Historians have produced a huge literature on the origins of neoliberalism.  Its less respectable sibling, libertarianism, has received far less attention. This is weird.  Today neoliberalism is in retreat, but, pace Read more