a generation of radical thinkers who worked successfully to revive the tradition of classical liberalism [...] and who dared to launch a frontal challenge to the twentieth-century welfare state. [...] His writings exercised a powerful influence on a generation of young classical liberal thinkers". The Cato Institute named its in-house library which contained many volumes from his collection after Childs. His personal papers are in an archive at Stanford University. The Center for Independent Thought offers a Roy A. Childs, Jr. Fund for Independent Scholars which supports non-academic classical liberal writers. Works Childs wrote essays and book reviews which were collected posthumously into anthologies: A paperback collection which includes an introduction by Thomas Szasz and a biographical sketch by Taylor. An e-book collection with an introduction by George H. Smith. References Works cited External links , written by Roy Childs. Roy Childs papers 1949 births 1992 deaths 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century essayists American critics American magazine editors American male non-fiction writers American political writers American gay writers Libertarian theorists Male essayists New York (state) Libertarians Non-interventionism Writers from Buffalo, New York 20th-century LGBT people