The Decline of the American Republic

In 1955, John T. Flynn saw what few other journalists did: the welfare-warfare state conspired to bring down American liberty. The New Deal, combined with controls enacted during World War II, had fastened leviathan authority over a country born in liberty.

This early analysis of the causes of the Great Depression and the failure of the New Deal also notes a point later demonstrated in detail by Robert Higgs: the post–World War II economic boom was false in every way — an artifice created by misleading government data and inflationary financial policies.

Here we see the best of some of the last writings of the "Old Right," by a man whose opinions were deemed too libertarian for the likes of National Review.