December 02, 2003

False Advertising

While being a leader of the Paleolibertarian movement, Anarchy Lew Rockwell is quite the misleading advertiser. In response to David Brooks' column on the GOP as the nation's governing party, he writes,

But did Bill Buckley really invent conservatism in the early 1950s? As Murray Rothbard pointed out, this is propaganda intended to send the Old Right down the memory hole, and to convince Americans that conservatism means bombs and central planning. In other words, Buckley is a neocon.

But the Old Right, born in opposition to FDR's New Deal and drive to war, still lives, thanks largely to Rothbard.

"The Republican Mega-State" [via PunchtheBag]