All Posts Tagged With: "Old Right"
Unsanctioned Voice: Garet Garrett, Journalist of the Old Right
This is a curious book about a curious man. It’s not a biography in a normal sense, but a biographical essay based on the limited material left behind by Garet Garrett, the journalist, novelist, and powerful voice speaking up for individualism and free markets as the New Deal eclipsed them. Bruce Ramsey, an editorial writer [...]
5Jan2010 | Brian Doherty | 4 comments | ContinuedAlbert Jay Nock and Alternative History
Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945) was a leading ideologist of the Old Right, a loose collection of individualist intellectuals, journalists, and a few politicians who opposed the growth of government in the first half of the twentieth century. Nock’s writing appeared in the Nation, the original Freeman (1920–1924), which he founded with Francis Neilson, the American [...]
1Nov2008 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 2 comments | ContinuedMere Isolationism: The Foreign Policy of the Old Right
One of the “lost causes” to which libertarians are attached—and one of the most important—is that of the “isolationist” Old Right. As used by the late Murray Rothbard, among others, the term “Old Right” refers to a loose coalition opposed to the New Deal in both its domestic and foreign aspects. While not following a [...]
1Feb2000 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 0 comments | ContinuedAmerica First! Its History, Culture, and Politics
Mr. Pavlik is associate editor of The Freeman and editor of Forgotten Lessons: Selected Essays of John T. Flynn, published by FEE. Bill Kauffman’s new book is a mix of biographical essays, historical commentary, and contemporary criticism. America First! sets out to describe a way of looking at the culture and politics of the United [...]
1Apr1996 | Gregory P. Pavlik | 0 comments | Continued-
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