Published by the Cato Institute, which still operates as a think tank in Washington DC, Inquiry aimed to find common ground between libertarians and liberal-leftists critical of state power.
The magazine, once described by William Safire as a "lively, lefty magazine" and by the New Republic as "best of the right-wing rags," featured regular columns by Nat Hentoff on civil liberties, foreign reporting by Penny Lernoux, and CIA exposes by such writers as David Wise and Fred Landis. As associate editor of the magazine for several years, I contributed articles on the Nugan Hand banking scandal, the Nixon administration's plot to assassinate Omar Torrijos of Panama, and the JFK assassination.
In 1982, after moving to Washington with the Cato Institute, Inquiry went monthly and became a more strictly libertarian journal, with a stronger emphasis on free-market principles. The magazine was finally folded in 1984. At its peak it had a circulation of about 30,000.
-- Jonathan Marshall
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