This wonderful collection of essays by Albert Jay Nock, first published in 1928, includes his "Anarchist's Progress," "Thoughts on Revolution," "The Decline of Conversation," and other classics by this great American essayist and influential libertarian thinker.
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Albert Jay Nock
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Albert Jay Nock (October 13, 1870–August 19, 1945) was an influential American libertarian author, educational theorist, and social critic of the early and middle twentieth century. Murray Rothbard was deeply influenced by him, and so was the whole generation of free market thinkers of the 1950s.
[This is Albert Jay Nock's (1870–1945) introduction to Spencer's forgotten 1884 classic, The Man versus the State.] In 1851 Herbert Spencer published a treatise called Social Statics; or, The...
The Majesty of the Law When I was seven years old, playing in front of our house on the outskirts of Brooklyn one morning, a policeman stopped and chatted with me for a few moments. He was a kindly...
[This essay first appeared in the American Mercury in March 1939.] As well as I can judge, the general attitude of Americans who are at all interested in foreign affairs is one of astonishment...
References
NY: Harper Brothers, 1928
