Chapter 19 of 19 · The Betrayal of the American Right by Murray N. Rothbard
Index
A Mencken Chrestomathy (Mencken), 13n
AAA. See Agricultural Adjustment Act
Acheson, Dean
return to government, 37
ADA. See Americans for Democratic Action
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), 24, 47
Alliance of Libertarian Activists, 193
America First Committee, 38, 41, 42, 43, 45, 53
America’s Future, Inc., 57
America’s Great Depression (Rothbard), ix
American Affairs, 57
American Legion, 65
American Liberty League (Liberty League), 12, 26, 29
American Mercury, 9, 25, 27, 36
American Veterans Committee (AVC), 65
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 88
analysis, 57, 69, 71, 81, 83, 87, 134
Anarchism
conversion of MNR to, 74
logical argument for, 74
Andrews, T. Coleman, 142
anti-Communism, 147
conversion of libertarians to, 151
spearheaded by ex-Communists, 149
anti-Semitism
charge against Old Right, 42
Apostles of Discord: A Study of Organized Bigotry and Disruption on the Fringes of Protestantism (Roy), 81
Articles of Confederation, xii, xvii, 20
As We Go Marching (Flynn), 47
Atkinson, Edward, 4
Atlantic Monthly, 36
Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, An (Rothbard), x
Austrian School of economics, ix, 67, 73
authors, libertarian women, xi, 59
AVC. See American Veterans Committee
Barnes, Harry Elmer, 9, 81, 170, 176
“Liberal Viewpoint, The,” 35
Baruch, Bernard M.
role in NRA and AAA, 24
Bastiat, Frédéric, 58
Beard, Charles A., 19, 35, 40, 47
Behemoth (Neumann), 62
Bell, Canon Bernard Iddings, 25
Bell, Daniel
New American Right, The, 155
Benn, Ernest, 16
Bennett, John C., 81
Berkeley Free Speech Movement (FSM), 191
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 195
Betrayal of the American Right, The origins of, xxi
Bickel, Alexander, 167
big business
aversion to laissez faire, 185
role in statism, 21
Birkhead, Leon M., 41
Black Panther Party, 200
Blumert, Burt, xxiv
Bork, Robert, 167
Bossard, James H.S., 120
Bourne, Randolph, 5
Bozell, L. Brent, 168
McCarthy and His Enemies, 152
Bricker Amendment, 139, 140, 147
Bricker, John W., 139
Bridges, Stiles, 93
Bromfield, Louis
New Pattern for a Tired World, A, 127
Bronx High School of Science, 145
Buckley, Priscilla
former CIA agent, 161
Buckley, William F., 137, 146, 202
“Young Republican’s View, A,” 158
former CIA agent, 161
God and Man at Yale, 158
McCarthy and His Enemies, 152
Buffett, Howard, xiii, xiv, 88, 93
Bureaucracy (Mises), 61
Burnham, James, 202
“The Third World War,” 167
consultant for CIA, 161
Butler, John Marshall, 82
Butler, Smedley D., 33
Carlson, John Roy (pseudonym of Avedis Derounian)
Under Cover, 42
Carnegie Foundation, 119
Casey, William J., 162
wing of New Right, 160
Center for Libertarian Studies, iii
Central Intelligence Agency. See CIA
Challenge to Liberty (Hoover), 26
Chamberlain, John, 150
Farewell to Reform, 63
Chamberlin, William Henry, 131, 170
Chambers, Whittaker, 158
Chiang Kai-shek, 90, 91, 138, 157
Chicago Tribune, 39, 85, 93, 101, 118, 121, 123, 146, 152, 170, 185
China, People’s Republic. See Communist China
Chinese (military forces), 95
Chodorov, Frank, iv, 57, 69, 71, 81, 82, 83, 87, 132, 145, 158
“Along Pennsylvania Avenue,” 81
“Return of 1940?, The,” 134
“Socialism by Default,” 72
“Taxation Is Robbery,” 69
“War to Communize America, A,” 135
opposition to Red-baiting, 162
sacking of for anti-war position, 36
Christian Economics, 82
Christian Freedom Foundation, 82
Chronicles, xxiv
Churchill, Winston
compared with Khrushchev, 173
Churchill, Winston S., 89
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 161
CIO. See Congress of Industrial Organizations
Circle Bastiat, 145, 156, 168, 174
Civil War, 59
Clark, Jr., Wilson A., 194
class warfare, 20
classes, antagonistic
state as creator of, 21
Clay, Henry, xiv
Cleaver, Eldridge, 200
Cobden Club, 145
Cohn, Roy, 156
Cold War
acceptance among libertarians, 127
as imperialism, 103
criticism of, xiii
launch of, 86
origins of, 180
support of journalists for, 131
Cold War and its Origins, The (Fleming), 180
“Collective security” campaign of Soviet Union, 34
College Young Republicans, 167
Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph, 187
Columbia College, 73
Columbia Graduate School, 65
Columbia University, 56
Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 87
Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE), 178
Committee for Constitutional Government, 57, 87
Commonweal, 158
Commonwealth Edison Company, 58
Communist New Masses, 63
Communist Party, 40, 46, 52, 54, 57, 63, 92
attack on isolationists, 34
attitude of toward New Deal, 24
Conceived in Liberty (Rothbard), ix
Congress
attempt of to retain war powers, 94
delegation of powers to executive by, 105
Congress for Cultural Freedom, 161
Congress of Freedom, 139
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 55
Conscience of a Conservative, The (Gold-water), 168
opposition to, 195
peacetime, 48
conservatism
consistent philosophy of, 1
joining Establishment of, 203
conservative
adoption of label by right, 165
Conservative Mind, The (Russell), 164
Constitution Party, 141
Constitution, U.S., 19
Containment and Change (Oglesby), 196
Continuum, xi, xxiii, 190, 196
Contours of American History, The (Williams), 180
Cornuelle, Herbert C., 67, 68, 80, 81
Cornuelle, Richard “Dick,” 76, 80, 145
Council on Foreign Relations, 119
Courtney, Kent, 141
Courtney, Phoebe, 141
Curtiss, William Marshall, 66
Czechoslovakia
Communist “takeover” of, 90
D’Antonio, Emile
Point of Order, 153
Daily Worker, 152
Davis, Forrest, 151
Davis, John W.
Mencken’s opinion of, 17
debt, public
imperative to repudiate, 71
DeHuszar, George B., 120
Dennis, Lawrence, 46
Derounian, Avedis
pseudonym John Roy Carlson, 42
Dewey, John, 28
Dies Committee, 150
Dilling, Elizabeth, 33
Dirksen, Everett, 122
Discovery of Freedom, The (Lane), 59
Dodd, Norman, 119
Draper, Hal, 198
Draperites, 198
drugs, hallucinogenic, 144
Dulles, John Foster, 91, 100, 124
early individualism
as origin of Old Right, 3–8
Economic Council Review of Books, 57, 68
education
egalitarianism in, 29
influence of Taft on, 126
empire
hallmarks of existence of, 105
end of ideology
liberal proclamation of, 155
Espionage Act (1917), 45
Essays on Liberty, 68
Establishment (term)
evolution of meaning of, 2
Ethics of Liberty, The (Rothbard), ix
Ettinger, Karl, 120
ex-Communists, 159
spearheading of anti-Communism, 150
Executive Branch of government
growth in power of, 29
ex-leftists
wing of New Right, 160
Fair Deal, 117
Faith and Freedom, 81, 82, 130, 132, 133, 143, 144
demise of, 143
Farewell to Reform (Chamberlain), 63
fascism
American, 51
perception of New Deal as, 23
FBI. See Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 41
FEE. See Foundation for Economic Education
Finer, Hermann
Road to Reaction, 63
Fleming, D.F.
Cold War and Its Origins, The, 180
Fleming, Tom, xxiv
Flynn, John T., xi, 25, 35, 40, 57, 68, 87, 170
As We Go Marching, 47
expulsion from New Republic, 36
predicts extension of New Deal to international affairs, 48
predicts Vietnam War, 172
Smear Terror, The, 42
For A New Liberty (Rothbard), ix
For America, 139
foreign investments
alignment of war views with, 38
foreign wars
U.S. involvement in, 139
Formosa, 92
threat of war over, 133
Foster, William Z., 41
Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), 66, 67, 73, 76, 82, 112, 118, 134, 145, 146
political action by, 68
turn against anarchy, 78
attacked for quantitative sociological studies, 119
Fountainhead, The (Rand), 58
Frankfurter, Felix, 167
free markets
morality of, 74
Free Universities, 201
“Free University” movement, 194
Free University of New York, 195
Freedom and Peace Party (FPP), 200
freedom of the press, 122
Freedom School, 187
Freeman (magazine, 1920-24), 11
Freeman, The, 133, 134, 135, 146, 150
descent into innocuous desuetude of, 136
Freeman, The, 84
Friedman, Milton, xix
“Roofs or Ceilings?,” 66
Friends of Democracy, 41
use of secret agents by, 42
FSM. See Berkeley Free Speech Movement
Fulton, William, 118
fusionism
line of National Review, 166
Garrett, Garet, xi, 30, 43, 57, 147
“Revolution Was, The,” 103
“Rise of Empire, The,” 103, 130
Garth, Dave, 175
Gaskins, Bob, 188
Glaser, Becky, 194
Glauberman, Dave, 189
God and Man at Yale (Buckley), 158
God of the Machine, The (Paterson), 59
Goldwater, Barry, 188
Conscience of a Conservative, The, 168
nonconnection with Old Right, 123
Gompers, Samuel, 5
People or Personnel, 194
Government—An Ideal Concept (Read), 78
Grattan, C. Hartley, 10
Greaves, Jr., Percy L., 82
Gresham’s Law, 61
Growing Edge, 145
Guardian, 195
Hamilton, Charles, xxiv
hard hats (political term), 1
Harding, Warren G., 18
Harper, F.A “Baldy” 63, 68, 77, 80, 179
“Crisis of the Free Market, The,” 66
“In Search of Peace,” 112
Read breaks pledge to, 79
Harper’s, 25
Harriman, Henry I., 24
Haverford College, 58
Road to Serfdom, The, 62
Hazlitt, Henry, 150
support for New Right foreign policy, 161
Heard, Gerald, 143
Hearst papers, 63
Henry George School of New York, 36, 53
Hentoff, Margot, 203
Herald-Tribune, 119
Herbert, Aubrey (Rothbard nom de plume), 131
Hertz, Ronnie, 122
Hess, Karl, 137
Hillenkoeter, Roscoe, 93
Hiss, Alger, 137
historical process, the, 182
History of Money and Banking in the United States, A (Rothbard), x
Hitler, Adolf, 56
Ho Chi Minh, 125
Hobbs, Albert H., 119
Hoiles, Raymond Cyrus, 58
Challenge to Liberty, 26
opposition to, 12
opposition to “internationalism,” 99
shift to libertarianism, 26
Hopkins, Harry, 137
House Unamerican Affairs Committee (HUAC), 149
How Diplomats Make War (Neilson), 5
Howard, Perry, 123
HUAC. See House Unamerican Affairs Committee
Hughes, Frank
Prejudice and the Press, 121
Human Events, xxiv, 58, 81, 83, 101, 134, 170
demise of, 137
ouster of Felix Morley from, 162
Humphrey, George, 126
Hunt, E. Howard, 161
Hurley, Pat, 123
Hutchins, Robert M., 121
Hutchinson, Anne, 3
Hutchinson, B.E., 118
Huxley, Aldous, 143
Ickes, Harold C., 41
Imperial psychology, 108
imperialism
euphemised as “internationalism,” 49
opposition to, 4
Independent Party, 141
individualism
tenet of Old Right, 3
individualists
change of association from left-wing to right, 25
Ingebretsen, Jim, 143
Institute for Humane Studies (IHS), 179
Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 83
Intercollegiate Society of Individualists, 83
change of name and philosophy, 137
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
renamed from Intercollegiate Society of Individualists, 137
internationalism
euphemism for imperialism, 49
inverventionism, ix
Irrepressible Rothbard, The (Rothbard), x
Isherwood, Christopher, 143
isolationism
alignment with foreign investments, 38
and foreign New Deal, 33
U.S. government’s efforts to suppress, 45
Ivy League Entente, 37
Jackman, David, 188
Jews, American
pressure to enter war from, 43
Johnson, Lyndon B.
early views of Vietnam War, 126
Johnson, William, 81, 130, 143
Journal of Libertarian Studies, xi, xxiii
Keating, Kenneth, 89
Kendall, Willmoore, 166
conversion to Catholicism, 160
Kennedy, Joseph P., 96
opposition to “internationalism,” 97
Kent School, 80
Kephart, Bob, xxii
Kershner, Howard E., 82
Khrushchev, Nikita, 173
Kirchwey, Freda, 35
Kirk, Russell, 165
Conservative Mind, The, 164
Kolko, Gabriel
Triumph of Conservatism, The, 29, 185
Rothbard reaction to, 114
opposition to by Old Right, 110
permanent changes in American life wrought by, 106
Kruckman, Arnold, 139
Kuesell, John R., 175
labor unions
partnership with Big Business and Government, 118
LaFollette Progressive Movement, 12
LaFollette’s Magazine, 5
Lamont, Corliss, 93
land reform, 186
Discovery of Freedom, The, 59
Lausanne Conference, 18
Law of Love and the Law of Violence, The (Tolstoy), 77
“Law, Property Rights, and Air Polution” (Rothbard), ix
Lawrence College, 80
League for Industrial Democracy, 192
League of Stevensonian Democrats (LSD), 175
Lee, Bracken, 142
LeFevre, Robert, 139
Those Who Protest, 187
Left
advocacy of World War II, 34
alliance with in opposition to war, 11
Left and Right, xxiii, 193, 205
Lend-Lease Act (1941), 108
Letter to Grover Cleveland (Spooner), 75
Levellers, 3
Leviathan, 195
Levine, Isaac Don, 150
Levitas, S.M., 155
Liberation, 176
libertarian
acquisition of label by, 83
Libertarian Forum, xxiii
libertarian movement
U.S., in 1959, 174
Party platform, xv
Libertarian Republican, xxiv
Libertarian Review, xxii
Libertarian Review Press, xxii
libertarianism
alliances with other movements, 184, 201
in postwar renaissance, 65
libertarians and foreign policy
postwar renaissance of, 103
Life, 41
Liggio, Leonard, 94, 145, 149, 174, 179, 195
Lindbergh, Charles A., 53
called fascist by W. Winchell, 41
charges of anti-Semitism against, 43
Lindbergh, Sr., Charles A., 4
Lindley Ernest K., 151
Logic of Action, The (Rothbard), x
London School of Economics, 62
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 57, 66
Lost Generation (authors), 7
Luce, Henry, 41
dissolves Volker Fund, 179
MacArthur, Douglas, 107, 133, 141
Macdonald, Dwight, 58
Making Economic Sense (Rothbard), x
Man, Economy, and State (Rothbard), ix, 80
Manchester School, 4
Manion, Clarence, 139
Manly, Chesly, 123
Marine Corps, 33
launch of, 86
Marshall, Alfred, 73
Marx, Karl
comparison with Nock-Oppenheimer, 20
Masses and Mainstream, 131
May 2nd Movement, 195
Mayer, Milton, 43
McCarthy and His Enemies (Bozell and Buckley), 152
McCarthy Committee, 156
McCarthy, Eugene, 199
McCarthy, Joseph P., 41, 82, 151
McCarthyism, 154
as Populism, 154
McCormick, Robert E., xi, 118, 146
McCormick, Robert R., 39, 85, 170
McMurray, Howard J., 152
McReynolds, David, 200
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (Nock), 60
Mencken Chrestomathy, A (Mencken), 10, 13, 73
as elitist, 28
Credo, 15
description of the state, 13
Mencken Chrestomathy, A, 73
retirement, 25
sacking of for anti-war position, 36
Merchants of Death, The (Hanighen), 58
Meyer, Frank S., 1, 63, 169, 202
belief that National Review was CIA front, 161
conversion to Catholicism, 160
vision of devastated Soviet Union, 169
Milchman, Alan, 193
Milione, E. Victor, 137
militarism, 48
opposition to by Old Right, 110
Miller, Loren (Red), 66
Mises Seminar, 145
Mises, Ludwig von, xiv, 67, 73, 82, 117, 183
Bureaucracy, 61
Human Action, 80
Omnipotent Government, 61
Socialism, 150
Morality of free markets, 74
Morgenstern, George
Pearl Harbor: Story of a Secret War, 101
Morley, Felix, xi, xxiv, 58, 101, 137, 146, 170, 172
ouster from Human Events, 162
Morrow, Anne
opposition to war, 44
Moss, Larry, 189
Mullendore, William C., 57, 144
Munger, Bob, 145
Myth of a Guilty Nation (Nock), 5
NAM. See National Association of Manufacturers
Nation, 5, 10, 39, 88, 93, 100, 131
conversion to left-wing viewpoints, 25
expulsion of Osward Garrison Villard from, 35
National Association of Broadcasters, 44
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), 117, 118
National Council Against Conscription, 87
National Economic Council, 57, 187
National Industrial Conference Board, 57, 66
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), 118
National Recovery Act (NRA), 24, 47
National Review, xxi, 86, 133, 146, 150, 152, 158, 159, 164, 165, 167, 168, 188, 202
“fusionism” of, 166
and triumph of New Right, 147–72
Catholic aura at, 160
Rothbard’s relationship with, 169
Rothbard’s break with, 173
spurned by Leonard Liggio, 180
takeover of conservatism by, xxii
National Review (magazine), 1
National Steel Corporation of Pittsburgh, 130
National Young Republican Federation, 167
NATO. See North Atlantic Treaty Organization
natural aristocracy, 28
Nazism
as variant of socialism/collectivism, 61
Neilson, Francis, 11
How Diplomats Make War, 5
Neumann, Franz
Behemoth, 62
New American Right, The (Bell), 155
and emergence of Old Right, 23–32
and foreign and isolationism, 33
as fascism, 47
as revolution, 30
attitude of Communist Party toward, 24
attitude toward of socialists and progressives, 24
comparison with Hoover’s cartelist program, 24
comparison with Prohibition, 27
drive of toward war, 40
perception of as fascism, 23
New Frontier, 203
New Individualist Review, 176
decision not to discuss foreign policy, 178
New Left, 192
and Old Right, xvi
demise of, 201
emergence of, 191
end of alliance with, 201
late Sixties, 191
New Party, 142
New Pattern for a Tired World, A (Bromfield), 127
New Republic, 25, 36, 44, 88, 93, 94, 100, 171
New Right
attitude toward Supreme Court, 166
emergence of, 1955, 141
triumph of and National Review, 147–72
vs. Old Right, 1–2
New York
political climate in during World War II, 56
New York Post, 175
New York Public Library, 75
New York Sun, 150
New York Times, 42, 68, 106, 119, 153
Graduate School of Business, Mises, 67
New York World Telegram, 35
Nixon, Richard M., 123, 175, 202, 204
NLRB. See National Labor Relations Board
No Treason (Spooner), 75
Nock, Albert Jay, xi, 11, 18, 25, 53, 68, 71, 82, 185, 192
after World War II, 57
as elitist, 28
attitude toward Soviet Union, 11
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, 60
Myth of a Guilty Nation, 5
Our Enemy, the State, 19
sacking of for anti-war position, 36
Theory of Education in the United States, 28
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 87, 91
NRA. See National Recovery Act
Nye Committee, 33
Office of Price Administration (OPA), 86
Containment and Change, 196
Old Left, 29
experience of World War II, 54
Old Right
after World War II, 117
cooperation with New Left, xvi,
background, xi
decline of libertarian wing of, 143
demise of, 117
New Deal and emergence of, xi, 23–32
origins of
early Individualism, 3–8
Tory Anarchism of Mencken and Nock, 9–22
propaganda, xv
vs. new right, 1–2
Omnipotent Government (Mises), 61
On That Day Began Lies (essay), 78n
OPA. See Office of Price Administration
Oppenheimer, Franz
State, The, 18
Our Enemy, the State (Nock), 19, 57
Owens, Hamilton, 15
pacifism
condemned as Communism, 33
Parris Island
death march at, 133
Paterson, Isabel, xi
God of the Machine, The, 59
Peace and Freedom Party, 200
Peace and Freedom Party (PFP), 197
Pearl Harbor (attack), 36, 151
revisionism, 82
Pearl Harbor: Story of a Secret War (Morgenstern), 101
peasant movements, 186
Pegler, Westbrook, 118
Pelley, William Dudley, 45
Pentagon, 107
People or Personnel (Goodman), 194
perpetual war
as concomitant of inflation, 107
Pew, J. Howard, 83
PFP. See Peace and Freedom Party
PL. See Progressive Labor Party
Plain Talk, 150
Plan or No Plan (Wootton), 63
Point of Order (D’Antonio), 153
Poirot, Paul, 66
Polanyi, Michael, 62
political spectrum
shifting of, 148
political spectrum during early Sixties
political spectrum during, 173–90
Politics, 58
politics and foreign policy
in postwar renaissance, 85
Popper, Karl, 62
Popular Front, 24
line of Communist Party, 54
populists, 3
postwar renaissance
libertarianism, 65
postwar renaissance
demise of Old Right in, 117
libertarians and foreign policy, 103
politics and foreign policy, 85
Preface, xxi
Prejudice and the Press (Hughes), 121
presidential election
of 1924, 16
of 1940, 38
of 1948, 139
of 1952, 123
Progressive Labor Movement, 195
Progressive Labor Party (PL), 198
prohibition, 9
Protestants
absence from New Right, 160
pro-war sentiment
alignment with foreign investments, 38
Putnam, Samuel, 10
Queens College, 189
Radosh, Ronald, xvi
Raico, Ralph, 176
Raimondo, Justin, iv
Rampart College, 188
Ramparts Press, xxii
Rand, Ayn, 185
Fountainhead, The, 58
Read, Leonard E., 57, 66, 67, 145
“Conscience on the Battlefield,” 110
“Students of Liberty,” 77
attitude toward anarchism, 77
Government—An Ideal Concept (1954), 78
member of Spiritual Mobilization, 82
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), 25
red-baiting, 147
Reisman, George, 156
Republican National Committee, 82
Republican Party, 12, 124, 151
Rothbard abandons, 123
Resch, H. George, 80
revolutionaries
American, 3
French, 3
RFC. See Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Rhodes Scholar Revisionism, 119
RIGHT, 2
Ritchie, Albert, 12
Road to Reaction (Hermann), 63
Road to Serfdom, The (Hayek), 62
Rockefeller Foundation, 119
Rockwell, Lew, xxiv
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
attitude of Jewish voters toward, 43
Roosevelt, Theodore, 23
Rosen, Jake, 199
Rosenthal, Danny, 193
Rote Fahne, Die, 133
Rothbard, Murray N.
America’s Great Depression, ix
An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, x
Conceived in Liberty, ix
Ethics of Liberty, The, ix
History of Money and Banking in the United State, A, x
For A New Liberty, ix
“Foreign Policy of the Old Right, The,” xxiii
Irrepressible Rothbard, The, x
“Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution,” ix
“Left and Right the Prospects for Liberty,” 193
“Liberty and the New Left,” 193
Logic of Action, The, x
“Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics,” ix
Making Economic Sense, x
Man, Economy, and State, ix, 80
Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy, x
abandons association with right wing, 174
autobiographical remarks, 56, 73, 122, 132, 142, 153, 197
background, ix–xi
becomes libertarian, 68
break with National Review, 173
called Communist by “libertarians,” 143
called communist sympathizer, 132
embraces Austrian economics, 73
nom de plume, 131
reaction to Korean War, 114
Rothbard-Rockwell Report, x, xi
Roy, Ralph Lord
Apostles of Discord: A Study of Organized Bigotry and Disruption on the Fringes of Protestantism, 81
Russell, Dean, 113
Russian Social Democratic Federation, 154
Santa Ana Register, 58
Sargent, Noel, 117
Saturday Evening Post, 43
Savings bonds, 71
Savio, Mario, 193
Sawyer, Dan, 141
Schachtmanites, 198
Scharfenberger, Ed, 142
Schine, S. David, 156
Schlamm, William S., 133, 135, 150
Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur, 39, 164
Schuchman, Robert M., 168
Scribner’s Commentator, 36
Seale, Bobby, 200
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 104, 140
Shakespeare, Frank, 202
Sherwood, Robert E., 44
Siler, Eugene R., 133
Simpson, Sockless Jerry, 21
Sixteenth Amendment, 142
sixties
political spectrum during, 173–90
Sixties, late
New Left in, 191–206
Smear Terror, The (Flynn), 42
social power
vs. state power, 21
social science
critique of value-free, 120
Socialism (Mises), 150
Wisconsin, 152
Sorokin, Pitrim A., 121
Southeast Asia
U.S. policy in, 125
Soviet Union, 54, 94, 130, 159
“collective security” campaign of, 34
drive of New Right for war with, 169
propaganda and, xiv,
Spanish-American War, 4
Spiritual Mobilization, 81, 82, 143
Spooner, Lysander, 75
Letter to Grover Cleveland, 75
No Treason, 75
SST (supersonic transport), 204
Standard, The, 188
State Department, 104
state power
vs. social power, 21
state, the
as creator of antagonistic classes, 21
State, The (Oppenheimer), 18
statism
big business’s role in, 21
Stevenson, Adlai, 123, 143, 175
Stigler, George J., 65
Stimson, Henry Lewis
appointment as Secretary of War, 38
Stone, I.F., 93
Stout, Wesley N., 43
Stromberg, Joseph R.
master’s thesis by, xxiii
Stuart, R. Douglas, 39
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), xvii, 191, 195, 200
Students for America (SFA), 145, 156
Students for Thurmond Club, 87
Sumner, William Graham
opposition to Spanish-American War, 4
Sun Oil Company, 83
Supreme Court, 30
1937 attempt to “pack,” 29
attitude of New Right toward, 166
Swope Plan, 24
Swope, Gerard, 24
Syngman Rhee, 92
Taft, Robert A., xiii, xvi, 38, 39, 85, 86, 90, 93, 100, 117, 122, 139, 147
criticism of Cold War, xiii
predicts Vietnam War, 124
Taft-Hartley Act, 118
Taiwan. See Formosa
taxation
as theft, 69
Templeton, Jr., Kenneth S., 80
Theory of Education in the United States (Nock), 28
Thomas, Norman, 151
Thompson, Dorothy, 41
Those Who Protest (LeFevre), 187
Thurmond, Strom, 87
time
advantage of to capitalism, 134
Tolstoy, Leo
Law of Love and the Law of Violence, The, 77
Tory Anarchism of Mencken and Nock
as origin of Old Right, 9–22
“Toward a Reconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics” (Rothbard), ix
Tragedy of American Diplomacy, The (Williams), 180
Triumph of Conservatism, The (Kolko), 29, 185
Trotskyites, 198
Truman Doctrine, 87, 88, 89, 93
Truman, Harry S., xiii, 53, 86, 93, 100, 117
Tucker, Benjamin R., 75
Tugwell, Rex, 24
Tydings, Millard E., 82
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 24
U.S. Constitution, 19
U.S. Information Agency (USIA), 202
Under Cover (Carlson), 42
Union Theological Seminary, 81
University of Chicago
Committee on Social Thought, 67
University of Kansas, 188, 194
University of North Carolina, 194
University of Virginia, 28
University of Wisconsin, 185
Vandenberg, Arthur, 86
Versailles Treaty, 6, 23, 33, 34
Veterans of Foreign Wars, 65
Viereck, Peter
“Revolt against the Elite, The,” 157
congeniality with Establishment, 164
Vietnam Teach-In movement, 195
Vietnam War, 201
opposition to, 191
prediction of by Taft, 125
Viet-Report, 195
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 5, 10, 41
expulsion from Nation, 35
Volker, William, 67
Wagner Act, 117
Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy (Rothbard), x
Wall Street Journal, 131
Rothbard publishes letter in, 175
war
opposition to during, 191
and peace question, xvi
War powers
attempt of Congress to retain, 94
Warren, Earl, 123
Warsaw Trybuna Ludu, 132
Watts, Orval, 66
Webster, Nesta, 33
Weimar Republic
as embryo of fascism, 62
Weir, Ernest T., 132
“Leaving Emotions Out of Foreign Policy,” 130
Welch, Robert, 117
Werdel, Thomas H., 142
Western Europe
Soviet threat to, 136
Wheeler, Burton K., 33
White man’s burden, 110
William Volker Company, 67
William Volker Fund, 67, 80, 81, 82, 169, 178
association of Rothbard with, 80
Williams, Roger, 3
Williams, William Appleman, xvi, xvii, 185
Contours of American History, The, 180
Tragedy of American Diplomacy, The, 180
Willkie, Wendell, 38
Wills, Garry, 161
Wilson, Woodrow, 6
Wood, Robert B.
called fascist by W. Winchell, 41
Wootton, Barbara
Plan or No Plan, 63
World War I
American objection to, 5
effect of aftermath on American culture, 9
nadir of Old Right, 53–64
World-Telegram, 86
Wormser, René, 119
Wright, Gridley, 165
Young Americans for Freedom, 167
Sharon Statement of, 168
Young Republican Club, 122
Young Republican Club of New York, 86
Youth for Taft, 145
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