All Posts Tagged With: "the Remnant"
Albert Jay Nock: A Gifted Pen for Radical Individualism
American individualism had virtually died out by the time Mark Twain was buried in 1910. Progressive intellectuals promoted collectivism. Progressive jurists like Oliver Wendell Holmes hammered constitutional restraints as an inconvenient obstacle to expanding government power, supposedly the cure for every social problem.
1Mar1997 | Jim Powell | 1 comment | ContinuedIsaiah’s Job
Isaiah’s Job is extracted from Chapter 13 of Nock’s book Free Speech and Plain Language, copyright 1937 by Albert Jay Nock, published by William Morrow & Company, New York. This extract has been reprinted with permission. One evening last autumn, I sat long hours with a European acquaintance while he expounded a politico-economic doctrine which [...]
1Mar1997 | Albert Jay Nock | 29 comments | Continued-
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