The Henry Hazlitt Foundation was a public interest or advocacy organization founded in 1997 by Chris Whitten, who had been publishing Free-Market.com since 1995. The Foundation was named after free-market economist and writer Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt

Henry Stuart Hazlitt was an American economist, philosopher, literary critic and journalist for such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The American Mercury, Newsweek, and The New York Times...

. In 1997 Free-Market.com became Free-Market.Net: The Freedom Network for the express purpose of making the ideas of liberty more accessible and networking with the international libertarian

Libertarianism

Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...

 movement. J.D. Tuccille (the son of Jerome Tuccille

Jerome Tuccille

Jerome Tuccille is an American writer and activist usually associated with the libertarian movement of American politics. Tuccille was referred to as "everybody's favorite right-wing anarchist," by one reviewer. "Tuccille was the Free Libertarian Party of New York's 1974 gubernatorial candidate...

) served as senior editor for Free-Market.net.

History

The Foundation ran a number of contests, including book of the month, website of the week, and an offline newsletter entitled The Free-Marketeer. They were also responsible for the creation or maintenance of a number of libertarian organizations, such as ifeminists and Bureaucrash

Bureaucrash

Bureaucrash is an international network of libertarian activists whose stated goals are "decreasing the scope of government" and "increasing individual freedom" which engages in culture jamming.-History:...

. The idea for Bureaucrash came from businessman Al Rosenberg, who partnered with the Henry Hazlitt Foundation in 2001. In December 2002, the Henry Hazlitt Foundation went out of business. Free-Market.Net became part of the International Society for Individual Liberty

International Society for Individual Liberty

The International Society for Individual Liberty or ISIL is a non-profit, non-partisan libertarian educational group encouraging activism in libertarian and individual rights areas by the 'freely chosen strategies' of its members. Its history dates back to 1969 as the Society for Individual...

 in December of 2004.

Funding

Between 1998 and 2003 the Henry Hazlitt Foundation received six grants totaling $52,500. Almost half of that total came from the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, which is part of the Koch Family Foundations

Koch Family Foundations

Koch Family Foundations is the informal name for a group of charities in the United States of America associated with the family of Fred C. Koch. The most prominent of these are the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation and the David H. Koch Charitable Foundation, created by two of Fred C...

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