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# Timothy Sandefur 

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Timothy Sandefur is Vice President of Legal Affairs at the Goldwater Institute, where he holds the Clarence J. and Katherine P. Duncan Chair in Constitutional Government. He is the author of ten books on a variety of subjects, including most recently *Proclaiming Liberty: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Declaration of Independence* (2026). He has also published scores of scholarly articles on a wide range of topics, ranging from eminent domain and economic liberty to antitrust, Indian law, copyright, evolution and creationism, the history of art, slavery and the Civil War, and legal issues in Shakespeare, ancient Greek drama, and *Star Trek*. His articles have appeared in *Reason, National Review,* the *Wall Street Journal*, *The Dispatch,* and *The Objective Standard,* where is a contributing editor. He held the 2023–24 Barry Goldwater Chair in American Institutions at Arizona State University.

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### *[Freedom’s Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Liberty in an Age of Darkness](https://www.cato.org/books/freedoms-furies)*

In 1943, three books appeared that changed American politics forever: Isabel Paterson’s The God of the Machine, Rose Wilder Lane’s The Discovery of Freedom, and Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. Together, they laid the groundwork for what became the modern libertarian movement.

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