Originally a folio section in an issue of NSFWcorp magazine from a decade ago. Mentions Robert LeFevre's strikebreaking at a radio station during the 1930s, his time in the "I AM" cult around the same period, his FBI snitchery in the early 1950s, his relationships with Raymond Cyrus Hoiles (ultraconservative newspaper chain owner) and Merwin K. Hart (one of those powerhouses of the pre-WWII farthest Right). The entire story of the "Freedom School" which became the doomed Rampart College is told in detail, along with the ruinous on-stage-on-campus stroke of ultrashill Frank Chodorov in the early 1960s. Charlie and the now-dead David Koch get most of the last few pages because they took LeFevre's ideas and ran with them hard, then disassociated themselves from LeFevre (pronounced "Luh-FAVE") because of his traceable links to the 1930s-'40s far-Right when the Reagan '80s started.
Rampart Institute Archive - http://www.rampartinstitute.com/
The era of maximum grift for Robert LeFevre, 1973-1986. He was trying to sell Rampart College as a seminar and the people who showed up were mostly Libertarians or "open-minded" conservatives. The "College" became an "Institute" and LeFevre was there in the back rooms of Shakey's Pizza restaurants in the greater Los Angeles area pitching his ideas, but before that he was on color 16mm film:
The film has faded badly.
Lift Her Up, Tenderly - https://archive.org/details/LeFevre-LiftHerUpTenderly/mode/2up
"Bob" LeFevre goes Nabakov with his own Libertarian novel of the older man lecturing the teenaged girl on the glories of the free market while he lusts after her. Gaah.
This Bread is Mine - https://cdn.mises.org/This%20Bread%20is%20Mine_2.pdf
Stored lovingly by the creepos of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, this is Robert LeFevre's first book, written in 1960. We never read it.
Wish We Were Here, "Liberty's Pitchman" - https://www.krcc.org/post/wish-we-were-here-episode-16-libertys-pitchman-robert-lefevre-freedom-school
KRCC public radio (!) did an episode on the Colorado Springs-based Freedom School/Freedom College/Rampart College. Mark Ames was interviewed, the fact that the school was "Whites only" is mentioned and that for most of its existence from 1956 to 1972 LeFevre was doing short, fortnight-long seminars, with it only a shadow college for a few years in the late 1960s. Lots of photos of what the grounds looked like then and today.
Mark Ames looks at Reason magazine's 1976 "Historical Revisionism" issue - https://pando.com/2014/07/24/as-reasons-editor-defends-its-racist-history-heres-a-copy-of-its-holocaust-denial-special-issue/
Where the rubber meets the road - the Koch-funded Reason carried on a tradition from the Rampart Journal academic magazine, Holocaust denial. Henry Elmer Barnes, James J. Martin, the loathsome Austin J. App - these guys plus Gary North, "L.A" Lew Rollins (a raging antisemite), and Percy Greaves (a founding member of Willis Carto's Liberty Lobby) are in that 1976 issue. The Libertarian/Koch strategy on history was to break reality - if the Allies were the bad guys in WWII, then all of the farthest-Right gunk deep within Robert LeFevre's Libertarianism was "rational." Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US we have seen what a government taking broadly Libertarian impulses does, and it hasn't been pretty.
