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  1. Isabel Paterson (January 22, 1886 – January 10, 1961) was a Canadian-American libertarian writer and literary critic. Historian Jim Powell has called Paterson one of the three founding mothers of American libertarianism , along with Rose Wilder Lane and Ayn Rand , who both acknowledged an intellectual debt to Paterson.

    • Novelist, journalist, philosopher, literary critic
    • journalism, philosophy, literary criticism
    • 20th century
    • Canadian/American
  2. 1 day ago · Isabel Paterson. Her “God of the Machine” masterpiece, written in 1943, became regarded in that era — and remains so today — as one of the most brilliant explanations of the Constitution ...

  3. Mar 1, 2014 · Born Isabel Bowler on Canada’s Manitoulin Island, she came to the United States as a young girl, where she lived with her family — including eight siblings — in rural Michigan, becoming a citizen in 1928. Paterson more than made up for the lack of schooling with self- directed education, voraciously reading the classics of poetry and ...

  4. Mar 19, 2023 · Isabel Paterson published The God of the Machine, Ayn Rand published The Fountainhead, and Rose Wilder Lane published The Discovery of Freedom, all in 1943. But as Beito noted “Of the three, The God of the Machine was the most explicit and sophisticated discussion of free markets, constitutional structures, and the fallacies of ...

  5. Aug 15, 2008 · Isabel Paterson was an early and consistent exponent of the ideas that now define radical libertarianism. She advocated minimal government, laissez- faire capitalism, and absolute individual rights in both the social and economic spheres.

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  7. Isabel Paterson was a Canadian-American libertarian writer and literary critic. Historian Jim Powell has called Paterson one of the three founding mothers of American libertarianism, along with Rose Wilder Lane and Ayn Rand, who both acknowledged an intellectual debt to Paterson. Paterson's best-known work, The God of the Machine (1943), a treatise on political philosophy, economics, and ...

  8. Isabel Paterson (January 22, 1886, – January 10, 1961) was a Canadian-American journalist, novelist, political philosopher, and a leading literary critic of her day. Along with Rose Wilder Lane and Ayn Rand, who both acknowledged an intellectual debt to Paterson, she is one of the three founding mothers of American libertarianism.

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