You may not have heard of Marshall Fritz, who passed away in California this week after a battle with pancreatic cancer, aged 65. Fritz was no ordinary Californian, or American — he was a proud member of the libertarian movement, having fought for its principles for over three decades decades since coming up from liberalism.
Fritz was author of the World’s Smallest Political Quiz, a measurement of political affiliation well-known, if not its author. (I posted the on the Quiz in August.)
Fritz was far more — he ran for Congress, fought to preserve a space for private education in a nation with a vast public-school lobby, was a scholar of comparative theology, traveler, and devoted parent.
A fine tribute to Fritz’s school-reform efforts may be found at “Marshall Fritz, R.I.P.:
Remembering one of the most devoted and principled school reformers of all time.”
He will be greatly missed. Others will carry on more easily having felt his encouraging influence.