The Henry Hazlitt Foundation was a public interest or advocacy organization founded in 1997 by Chris Whitten, who had been publishing ''Free-Market.com'' since 1995. The Foundation was named after free-market economist and writer Henry Hazlitt. In 1997 Free-Market.com became Free-Market.Net: The Freedom Network for the express purpose of making the ideas of liberty more accessible and networking with the international

libertarian Libertarianism (from french: libertaire, "libertarian"; from la, libertas, "freedom") is a political philosophy that upholds liberty as a core value. Libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and political freedom, and minimize the state's e ...

movement. J.D. Tuccille (the son of

Jerome Tuccille Jerome Tuccille (May 30, 1937 – February 16, 2017) was an American writer and activist usually associated with the libertarian movement of American politics. In 1974, he ran for Governor of New York on the ticket of the Free Libertarian Party ...

) served as senior editor for Free-Market.net.

History

The Foundation ran a number of features, including book of the month, website of the week, and an offline newsletter entitled ''The Free-Marketeer''. It was also responsible for the creation or maintenance of a number of libertarian organizations, such as ifeminists and

Bureaucrash Bureaucrash was an international network of libertarian activists whose stated goals were " decreasing the scope of government" and "increasing individual freedom", and which engaged in culture jamming. History Bureaucrash was founded in 2001 b ...

. The idea for Bureaucrash came from businessman Al Rosenberg, who partnered with the Henry Hazlitt Foundation in 2001. In December 2002, the Henry Hazlitt Foundation went out of business. Free-Market.Net became part of the

International Society for Individual Liberty Liberty International (the new public name of the International Society for Individual Liberty, Inc. or ISIL) is a non-profit, libertarian educational and networking organization based near Austin, Texas. It encourages activism in libertarian a ...

in December 2004 and appears in ISIL's successor's online archives several times.

Funding

Between 1998 and 2003 the Henry Hazlitt Foundation received six grants totaling $52,500.Media Transparenc

Retrieved: 4-06-2009

References

{{reflist Free market Libertarian organizations based in the United States