George H. Smith

George H. Smith

George Hamilton Smith (born February 10, 1949 in Japan, the son of a U.S. serviceman and his wife who were stationed there) is a libertarian author and educator. He grew up mostly in Tucson, Arizona, and attended the University of Arizona for several years before leaving without a degree.

After relocating to Los Angeles in 1971, Smith (through the intercession of Roy A. Childs, Jr.) secured a contract from Nash Publishing (then located in Los Angeles) to produce a book on atheism. The finished product, his first book, "" (1974), became one of the bestselling works on atheism published in the 20th Century.Fact|date=October 2007

Smith has been teaching since the 1970s, first under the auspices of his own Forum for Philosophical Studies (with offices on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles), later under the auspices of the Cato Institute and the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS). For nearly twenty years, from the mid 1970s to the mid 1990s, he spent his summers teaching political philosophy and American political and intellectual history to university students at seminars sponsored by Cato Institute and IHS.

During the 1980s, Smith worked for more than six years as the General Editor of Knowledge Products, a Nashville-based company that produced educational audio recordings in philosophy, history, economics, and current affairs. During those years, in addition to his duties as editor, Smith was also the primary scriptwriter for Knowledge Products' "Great Political Thinkers" series. These recordings have been widely used in college classrooms.

Since 1971, more than one hundred of Smith's articles and book reviews have appeared in a wide range of publications, including "The New York Times", the "Arizona Daily Star", "Reason Magazine", "Free Inquiry", "The Humanist", "Inquiry", "Cato Policy Report", "Liberty", "The Voluntaryist", Academic Associates "Book News", "Journal of Libertarian Studies", and "Humane Studies Review".

His published works often deal with such issues as capital punishment (oppose), anarchism, religious toleration, and atheism. He has written about William Wollaston, Herbert Spencer, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Ayn Rand, and other figures. On December 31, 2007, George Smith provided a humorous "qualified endorsement" of Republican candidate Ron Paul via Youtube for libertarian voters, but also one that is consistent with his published writings on electoral politics.

Bibliography

* "Atheism: The Case Against God". 1974. ISBN 0-8402-1115-5 and ISBN 0-87975-124-X
* [http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/2_3/2_3_2.pdf "William Wollaston on Property Rights"] , "Journal of Libertarian Studies", Vol. 2, no. 3, 1978, pp. 217-225.
* [http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/3_4/3_4_4.pdf "Justice Entrepreneurship in a Free Market"] , "Journal of Libertarian Studies", Vol. 3, no. 4 (Winter 1979): pp. 405-26
* [http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/3_4/3_4_8.pdf "Justice Entrepreneurship Revisited"] , "Journal of Libertarian Studies", Vol. 3, no. 4 (Winter 1979): pp. 453-69.
* [http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/5_2/5_2_1.pdf "Herbert Spencer's Theory of Causation"] , "Journal of Libertarian Studies", Vol. 5 (Spring 1981), no. 2: pp. 113-152
* "Atheism, Ayn Rand and Other Heresies". 1991. ISBN 0-87975-577-6
* "A Killer's Right to Life", "Liberty", Vol. 10, no. 2 (November 1996): 46.
* "Inalienable Rights?", "Liberty", Vol. 10, no. 6 (July 1997): 51
* "Why Atheism?" 2000. ISBN 1-57392-268-4

Reviews and commentary

* [http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/10_2/10_2_6.pdf David Gordon's review of "Atheism: Ayn Rand and Other Heresies" in "The Journal of Libertarian Studies", Vol. 10, no. 2 (Fall 1992)]
* [http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/14_1/14_1_4.pdf N. Stephan Kinsella's response to Smith regarding capital punishment]
* [http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/3_4/3_4_6.pdf Steven Strasnick. "Justice Entrepreneurship in A Free Market": Comment"]
* [http://www.anthonyflood.com/smithatheism.htm Anthony Flood's review of "Atheism: The Case against God" on AnthonyFlood.com]
* [http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/michael_martin/review-smith.html Michael Martin's review of "Atheism: The Case Against God"]


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