Overview
- The National Park Service said rangers responded to Battery Yates for a male who reportedly fell from a cliff into the water and that he was recovered and pronounced dead.
- Reason reported the fall likely followed an art gathering atop the former coastal defense site Thursday evening, and his body was found Friday morning near Sausalito.
- The magazine said Doherty had recent health setbacks and used a cane, which colleagues believe may have contributed to an accidental fall.
- Doherty worked at Reason for decades and authored Radicals for Capitalism, This Is Burning Man, and Dirty Pictures, spanning libertarian history and counterculture.
- Tributes from Reason leadership and cultural figures praised his influence, with David Nott calling him “the historian of the libertarian movement.”