Mises Wire
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Roberta A. Modugno
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[Adapted from “ The Libertarian Legacy of the Old Right: Democracy and Representative Government ,” Journal of Libertarian Studies 23 (2019): 5–21.] Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945) and Henry L. Mencken (1880–1956) were the two leading libertarian intellectuals of the Old Right, during the thirties of the twentieth century. Both defended laissez-faire