broadmode on Nostr: "In the beginning, in the aftermath of the war, there was not one right-wing ...

"In the beginning, in the aftermath of the war, there was not one right-wing renaissance but three, each reacting in different ways to challenge from the Left. The first of these groupings consisted of classical liberals and libertarians, resisting the threat of the ever-expanding, collectivist State to individual liberty. Convinced in the 1940s that post-New Deal America was rapidly drifting toward central planning and socialism - along what the economist Friedrich #Hayek famously called “the road to serfdom” - these intellectuals offered a powerful defense of free-market economics. Scholars like Hayek and Ludwig von #Mises in the 1940s and 1950s, to Milton #Friedman and the Chicago School of economists in the 1960s and 1970s, to Arthur Laffer, George #Gilder, Robert Bartly, and the supply-side economists and publicists of the 1980s, and to thinkers like Thomas #Sowell and Richard Epstein today ... [they together] exerted an enormous influence over the American Right."

-Roger Kimball

quoting note103e…dnly

"Laser what are you reading?"