David Ramsay Steele is the author of The Mystery of Fascism: David Ramsay Steele's Greatest Hits, Orwell Your Orwell: A Worldview on the Slab, Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy. Since 1985, he has been Editorial Director of Open Court Publishing Company. In 1997, he co-wrote with Michael R. Edelstein Three Minute Therapy: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life, a psychological self-help book based on Albert Ellis's rational emotive behavior therapy, re-released in paperback, 2019. In 2013, he co-wrote with Michael R. Edelstein and Richard K. Kujoth Therapy Breakthrough: Why Some Psychotherapies Work Better than Others, a study of cognitive-behavioral therapy arguing for its superiority to psychodynamic therapy. From 1963 to 1973, Steele was a member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain. In 1970, he became aware of the historical debate over economic calculation and between 1970 and 1973 underwent an intellectual conversion from SPGB Marxism to libertarianism. He later co-founded the Libertarian Alliance and in 1982 would be identified with one of the two factions that resulted in the split of the group.
Works
Books
Other
"Smash Cash", Oz, issue 17 .
, Journal of Libertarian Studiesvolume 5 #1 pp 7–22.
, Journal of Libertarian Studies volume 5 #1 pp 99–111.
"Why Stop at Term Limits?", National Review volume 47 #17.
"Between Immorality and Unfeasibility: The Market Socialist Predicament", Critical Review v10 #3.
"Yes, Gambling Is Productive and Rational", Liberty, reprinted in A Rhetoric of Argument by Jeanne Fahnestock and Marie Secor.
"The Strange Life of Murray Rothbard", Liberty.
, Free Life.
, Liberty.
.
Genius – In their Own Words: The Intellectual Journeys of Seven Great 20th-Century Thinkers.
"An Unexpected Discovery", Liberty v16 #7.
, Liberty v16 #8.
"The Sacred Element", Liberty v17 #3.
, Liberty v17 #5.
, Liberty v17 #11.
, Liberty.
"Why and When Should We Rely on Scientific Experts?" in Heldke et al., The Atkins Diet and Philosophy.
"Marxism" in Tom Flynn, The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief.
"Marx, Karl Heinrich" in Tom Flynn, The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief.
"Will Emerging Media Create a Collective Mind?" in Juliet Floyd and James E. Katz, eds., Philosophy of Emerging Media: Understanding, Appreciation, Application.
"What Follows from the Nonexistence of Mental Illness?" in Jeffrey A. Schaler, Henry Zvi Lothane, and Richard E. Vatz, eds., Thomas S. Szasz: The Man and His Ideas.
