Editing Murray Rothbard (section)

=== Education ===
Rothbard's parents were David and Rae Rothbard, [[Jewish]] immigrants to the United States from Poland and Russia, respectively. David was a chemist.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://mises.org/etexts/hhhonmnr.asp |title=Murray N. Rothbard: Economics, Science, and Liberty |first= Hans-Hermann |last=Hoppe |year= 1999 |publisher=The Ludwig von Mises Institute |access-date =September 13, 2014 |archive-date=November 2, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141102050422/https://mises.org/etexts/hhhonmnr.asp |url-status= live}} Reprinted from ''15 Great Austrian Economists'', edited by Randall G. Holcombe.</ref> He attended [[Birch Wathen Lenox School]], a private school in New York City.<ref name= "Raimondo2000-34">{{cite book |last=Raimondo|first= Justin |title=An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=YBsyVMg5HToC&pg=PA34|year=2000 |publisher=Prometheus Books, Publishers|isbn= 978-1-61592-239-0|page=34|access-date=June 28, 2017|archive-date=October 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016074108/https://books.google.com/books?id=YBsyVMg5HToC&pg=PA34|url-status= live}}</ref> Rothbard later said he much preferred Birch Wathen to the "debasing and egalitarian [[public school system]]" he had attended in the [[Bronx]].<ref name= OldRight>{{cite web|last= Rothbard |first=Murray|title= Life in the Old Right|url= https://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/murray-n-rothbard/life-in-the-old-right/ |publisher= Lew Rockwell |access-date=March 16, 2015|archive-date= September 6, 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170906090636/https://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard45.html|url-status= live}}</ref>

Rothbard wrote of having grown up as a "[[Right-wing politics|right-winger]]" (adherent of the "[[Old Right (United States)|Old Right]]") among friends and neighbors who were "[[communists]] or [[Fellow traveler|fellow-travelers]]". He was a member of the [[New York Young Republican Club]] in his youth.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web | work = NYYRC |url= https://nyyrc.com/history/ |title=History|access-date= October 15, 2019|archive-date= October 12, 2019|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191012210513/https://nyyrc.com/history/ |url-status= live}}</ref> Rothbard described his father as an [[Individualism|individualist]] who embraced [[minimal government]], [[Free market|free enterprise]], [[private property]] and "a determination to rise by one's own merits ...  [A]ll [[socialism]] seemed to me monstrously coercive and abhorrent."<ref name= OldRight /> In 1952, his father was trapped during a labor strike at the Tide Water Oil Refinery in New Jersey, which he managed, confirming their dislike of [[organized labor]].<ref name=":13">{{Cite book |last=Doherty |first=Brian |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76141517 |title=Radicals for capitalism : a freewheeling history of the modern American libertarian movement |date=2007 |publisher=PublicAffairs |isbn=978-1-58648-350-0 |location=New York |oclc=76141517}}</ref>

[[File:Murray Rothbard.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Rothbard in the mid-1950s]]
Rothbard attended [[Columbia University]], receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics in 1945 and a PhD in economics in 1956. His first political activism came in 1948, on behalf of the [[Jim Crow laws|segregationist]] South Carolinian [[Strom Thurmond]]'s presidential campaign. In the [[1948 United States presidential election|1948 presidential election]], Rothbard, "as a Jewish student at Columbia, horrified his peers by organizing a Students for [[Strom Thurmond]] chapter, so staunchly did he believe in [[states' rights]]", according to ''[[The American Conservative]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=McCarthy |first=Daniel |date=March 12, 2007 |title=Enemies of the State |url=http://www.amconmag.com/article/2007/mar/12/00027/ |url-status=dead |magazine=[[The American Conservative]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605015227/http://www.amconmag.com/article/2007/mar/12/00027/ |archive-date=June 5, 2011 |access-date=August 13, 2013}}</ref> The delay in receiving his PhD was due in part to conflict with his advisor, Joseph Dorfman, and in part to [[Arthur Burns]]'s rejecting his dissertation. Burns was a longtime friend of the Rothbard family and their neighbor at their [[Manhattan]] apartment building. It was only after Burns went on leave from the Columbia faculty to head [[President Eisenhower]]'s [[Council of Economic Advisers]] that Rothbard's thesis was accepted, and he received his doctorate.<ref name= "Enemy"/>{{rp|pages= 43–44}}<ref name= French>French, Doug (December 27, 2010) [https://mises.org/daily/4919/Burns-Diary-Exposes-the-Myth-of-Fed-Independence Burns Diary Exposes the Myth of Fed Independence] {{Webarchive |url=  https://web.archive.org/web/20140914010342/https://mises.org/daily/4919/Burns-Diary-Exposes-the-Myth-of-Fed-Independence |date=September 14, 2014}}, [[Ludwig von Mises Institute]]</ref> Rothbard later said that all his fellow students were extreme [[leftists]] and that he was one of only two Republicans at Columbia at the time.<ref name="Enemy"/>{{rp |page=4}}