(A personal tale of how Ed Crane, the recently retired founder of the prestigious Cato Institute, helped me get a fledgling newspaper off the ground)
The Wall Street Journal recently ran a tribute to Ed Crane, founder of the 35-year-old Cato Institute.
Under Ed’s direction Cato became the undisputed authority on the theory of limited government. It took the Libertarian stance . . . promoting free people, free choice, free markets and freedom of thought. In 1977 Cato had a staff of 10 and a budget of $800,000. Today, its staff numbers 127 and operates on a budget of $21 million per year.
