The Betrayal of the American Right | Chapter 11: Decline of the Old Right

After World War II, the "Old Right" was derailed by an interventionist group of anti-communist crusaders—and Libertarian ideas went by the wayside. Here, Murray Rothbard tells the sorry tale from the inside.

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Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was America's greatest radical libertarian author -- writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history, and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles.

Links to more online writings by Murray Rothbard:

For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

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The Ethics of Liberty

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Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economics

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The Progressive Era

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Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 1

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Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 2

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Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 3

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Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 4

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Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 5

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Related online resources:

A Century of War: Lincoln, Wilson, and Roosevelt


The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories


Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom


Rethinking the Good War


Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy 1933-1941


The Great Deceivers: FDR and the "Infamy" Behind Pearl Harbor


Pearl Harbor: The Facts Behind the Fiction


America's Second Crusade


Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace


Endless War Horribly Distorts US Foreign Policy


When Soldiers Resist


And the Armies That Remained Suffer'd: Veterans, Moral Injury and Suicide


Most Veterans Believe the Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan Weren't Worth Fighting


The Blob: Still Chasing After Pax Americana


Why 'Instilling Patriotism' Is So Ludicrous


What Nationalism Really Is (and Why It Matters)


Trump's Endless Wars


War, Peace, and the State


The Costs of the American Empire


War and Leviathan


Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy


Defending the Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy of Our Founders


Discomforting Facts about World War II


The 'Good War' and Defend America First


Why They Hate the America First Committee


US Soldiers Died for Nothing in WWI


Woodrow Wilson's Faith in War


War Collectivism


Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal


Making War


The Catastrophic Impact of War on Liberty


Neoconservatism's Deadly Influence


The "Global Democratic Revolution"


Deceiving Us Into War


Global Blowback


Why We Fought


American Blood for a New World Order?


Vietnam: The Greatest Disaster in All of US Foreign Policy


Minding Our Own Business


Fallacies of Isolationism Exposed


A Precedent of Silencing Dissent


FDR's Patriot Purge


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