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Albert Jay Nock was never a household name even in his own lifetime but his memory has been kept green in the half century since his death. His Mr. Jefferson, Our Enemy, The State, and Memoirs of a Superfluous Man have never been long out of print. Here, Thornton shares his views about Nock.

In August 1942, the U.S. Army—the “mailed fist,” as the young Kirk called it—decided he could serve his country and the war effort better as a soldier than as a desk clerk for Ford. After some very brief and poorly organized training courses at Camp Custer in Michigan, Kirk found himself shipped to a location near Tooele, Utah, at the Dugway Proving Grounds, a chemical- and gas-weapons-testing camp. Kirk had never been west of Chicago, and he found the West uncomfortable and overwhelming in its dramatic scapes as well as in its sparse population of people and trees.

J UST HOW conservative is the [Bush] administra tion?This is a question lib-erals have no trouble answering. They point to many items on an agenda long associated with the activist wing of the Republican Party: a parade of ideologically driven judicial nominees, a tax plan that rewards the rich even as the working poor are being lopped off employment rolls and, above all, a go-it-alone America-first foreign policy. But one notable group of critics has serious doubts about the administration's commitment to conservative ideals: American conservatives. For months now, a chorus on the right, growing in volume and clarity, has been challenging the White House's motives and aims.You can hear it too in the back and forth on the conservative-net listserv, an Internet discussion group in which scholars, most of them conservatives and many of them historians, have been dissecting the philosophical foundations of policy-makers in the Bush administration who seem wedded to an American gigantism starkly at odds with the movement's core principles. And I got an earful of it this spring when I spoke to 150 members of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute -- a national organization of student conservatives who immerse themselves in classic political and philosophical writings. The war in Iraq was going well. And they were pleased. But they wondered why some conservatives, like the editors of the Weekly Standard, were squelching debate about the war and throwing around scare words like appeasement.

Last week, the title of [Albert Jay Nock]'s classic came again to mind. For \"Our Enemy, the State\" is an exact description of a regime that seeks to convert into law a Senate amnesty for millions of illegal aliens while authorizing transnational companies to go abroad to bring hundreds of thousands of foreign workers here every year to displace Americans. Since the Immigration Act of 1965, Americans, in every poll and referendum, have demanded reductions in immigration, an end to the invasion through Mexico, no amnesty, a resolute defense of America's borders. Yet, not until a firestorm of protest erupted after he called the Minutemen \"vigilantes\" did [George W. Bush] begin to speak up for border security. It calls for a great leap of faith to credit Bush's sincerity now. One senses the president is tossing pennies to the House to buy its support of the amnesty-guest-worker plan on which he and Vicente Fox have been colluding for years. The Senate, by opening the door to U.S. citizenship for millions of illegal aliens, has cheapened something Americans used to consider priceless. That the Senate would put on a path to U.S. citizenship people who only a month ago were marching under Mexican flags is a manifestation of national decline.

Richman comments on Albert Jay Nock's essay entitled On Doing the Right Thing. He says that this essay is a reminder that the two advocates of paternalistic state, whether left or right--good conduct--is not a precondition of freedom but a consequence. Accounts supporting his contention are discussed.

\"Memoirs of a Superfluous Man\" by Albert Jay Nock is reviewed.

Liggio traces the journal's history as it is distinguished in the cause of liberty. Among other things, he says that Albert Jay Nock founded The Freeman to express his literary and political ideas and made the magazine for advanced thinking. The Freeman contributed to the growing climate of free-market and constitutional ideas and its editors created a core around which challenges to the dominant left ideology were formed.

[Albert Jay Nock]'s antiwar views appealed to Nation editor Oswald Garrison Villard, who gave him a job writing editorials in the fall of 1917. Nock's libertarian views complicated his relationship with the magazine, however. He liked Villard but scoffed at the Nations progressive liberalism, explaining in 1919 after leaving the magazine, \"one can't waste energy on that.\" The next year he founded The Freeman, which H.L. Mencken would praise as one of the glories of American letters, especially for Nock's brilliant editorials. In addition to La Follettes liberal politics, which he found tediously jejune, the Wisconsin senator's eventual enthusiasm for [Woodrow Wilson]'s war disappointed Nock. After his initial opposition, La Follette had reasoned that as a United States senator he had a moral obligation to support a democratically declared war. Then, upon listening to Wilson's idealistic Fourteen Points address on January 8, 1918, La Follette allowed that the war could be justified as the crusade for democracy that the president had said it was. La Follettes vision of a government truly controlled by the people, Nock contended, always would be a pipe dream. Government regulation of business in the progressive manner would end by augmenting the power of the master class, who always control any state system. Money, as La Follette should have learned after all his decades in politics, was a permanent part of Washingtons ecology. Nock recalled how he once had praised La Follette for some action of his in the Senate. La Follette had replied, \"Yes, but the trouble is you don't believe what I am doing amounts to a damn.\" Nock had to admit, \"It was true enough, and I was sorry...\"