https://www.prosperitist.com/tags/friedman/ Recent content in Friedman on The Prosperitist en-US r@raphaelbauer.com (Raphael Bauer) r@raphaelbauer.com (Raphael Bauer) Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0200 https://www.prosperitist.com/people/david-friedman/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0200r@raphaelbauer.com (Raphael Bauer) https://www.prosperitist.com/people/david-friedman/ <p>Over the Labor Day weekend of 1969, St. Louis hosted two conventions at once. One was the World Science Fiction Convention. The other was the national convention of Young Americans for Freedom, the conservative youth group, which that weekend expelled its libertarians after one of them burned his draft card on the convention floor<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup><sup id="fnref:2"><a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2</a></sup>. A 24-year-old physics student from Chicago went to both. At the science-fiction convention he was due to be crowned the first king of the Middle Kingdom, the new Midwestern branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism, a club that recreates the Middle Ages<sup id="fnref:3"><a href="#fn:3" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">3</a></sup>.</p>