For two years we have been instructed by the radical opposition at Berkeley on the evils of the swollen and gigantic multiversity that constitutes the University of California: the vast bureaucracy, the impersonality, the emphasis on quantity, the use of the multiversity to process swelling numbers of students into the military-industrial complex.
World War II has been aptly termed the Liberals’ War. More than that, it was the Old Left’s War, in which the entire Liberal spectrum, from proto-ADA types grouped in the Union for Democratic Action on the Right to the Communist Party on the Left, happily banded together to take their fighting places in the serried ranks of U. S. imperialism
In the wake of the scandal of the NSA, several points need to be highlighted. In the first place, let all attacks cease forevermore on those of us who hold what has been universally smeared as the “conspiracy theory of history”: I. e., on those of us who believe in the laws of cause and effect, who believe that men do not act purposelessly and
Frank S. Meyer is by far the most intelligent, as well as the most libertarian-inclined, of the National Review stable of editors and staff. Of all the National- editors and contributors, for example, Meyer is the only one to lend his name to the recently organized Council for a Volunteer Military, which calls for abolition of the draft (and even
Che is dead, and we all mourn him. Why? How is it that so many libertarians mourn this man; how is it that we just received a letter from a brilliant young libertarian, a former objectivist and Birchite, which said, in part: “if they did finally get Che ... I am sure that his memory will live to haunt both Latin America and the U.S. for decades to
Bewildered white Liberals are wont to ask: “What do you people want?” Some newsmen recently asked virtually this same question of H. Rap Brown, fiery young leader of SNCC and the Black Power movement. Rap replied: “I want Lyndon Johnson to resign and go to Vietnam and fight — he and his family.” Particularly interesting were the varied reactions
The Congress of the United States, in its wisdom, has now moved to make a federal offense out of “desecrating the flag”. No doubt the great bulk of those who fought for, and voted for, this law, believe themselves to be devoted Christians and champions of the rights of private property. We shall prove that they are nothing of the kind. Volume 3,
The trouble with sectarians, whether they be libertarians, Marxists, or world-governmentalists, is that they tend to rest content with the root cause of any problem, and never bother themselves with the more detailed or proximate causes. The best, and almost ludicrous, example of blind, unintelligent sectarianism is the Socialist Labor Party, a
On August 25, 1968. less than a week after completing the final draft of the article which constitutes this issue of Left and Right , Harry Elmer Barnes died at the age of 79. Murray N. Rothbard recounts the life of Barnes and the legacy he will leave behind. Volume 4, Number 3 (1968) Rothbard, Murray N. “Harry Elmer Barnes, RIP.” Left and Right
A note to the subscribers of Left and Right informing them of the special 1968 Harry Barnes-Pearl Harbor double-length issue. Volume 4, Number 1 (1968)
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