Although European libertarians continue to produce great works of theory
and activism, the United States has been, and seems to remain, the
epicenter of the libertarian movement. There are no prominent protests
in Europe calling for less governmental help as there are in the United
States. Murray Rothbard's essay "Left and Right: The Prospects for
Liberty" refers to the United States as "the great home of radical
liberalism."[1] In 1996, Dr. Yuri Maltsev presented a lecture at a Ludwig von Mises
Institute summit entitled "Why America Must Be Saved," making the case
for the United States as the greatest hope in the struggle for freedom.[2] Writing favorably of the tea-party movement, Peruvian writer and recent
Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa distinguished the American
individualist tradition as stronger than the European one:
