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What does one need to know about politics? In some ways, Nock has summed it all up in this astonishing work. Here was a prominent essayist at the height of the New Deal. In 1935, hardly any public intellectuals were making much sense at all. They pushed socialism. They pushed fascism. Everyone had a plan. Hardly anyone considered the possibility that the state was not fixing society but destroying it bit by bit.

And so Albert Jay Nock came forward to write what need to be written. And he ended up penning a classic of American political commentary, one that absolutely must be read by every student of economics and government.

Consider his opening two paragraphs: If we look beneath the surface of our public affairs, we can discern one fundamental fact, namely: a great redistribution of power between society and the State. This is the fact that interests the student of civilization. He has only a secondary or derived interest in matters like price-fixing, wage-fixing, inflation, political banking, "agricultural adjustment," and similar items of State policy that fill the pages of newspapers and the mouths of publicists and politicians. All these can be run up under one head. They have an immediate and temporary importance, and for this reason they monopolize public attention, but they all come to the same thing; which is, an increase of State power and a corresponding decrease of social power.

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Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945) was an influential American libertarian author, educational theorist, and social critic of the early and middle twentieth century. He is the founder of The Freeman. Murray Rothbard was deeply influenced by him, and so was the whole generation of free market thinkers of the 1950s.

Links to more online writings by Albert Jay Nock:

The Criminality of the State
http://tinyurl.com/s4xko4e

Life, Liberty, and ...
http://tinyurl.com/w3vcyql

The New Slavery: Nock on Spencer
http://tinyurl.com/wmcmlyg

The State Can Do No Wrong
http://tinyurl.com/w8t7a7y

The Causes of the Revolution of 1776
http://tinyurl.com/wr3ffdl

Drugstore Education
http://tinyurl.com/wcxpqgf

The Decline of Conversation
http://tinyurl.com/rymlrn5

Decline of the Great Tradition
http://tinyurl.com/rfnw6my

The New Deal and Prohibition
http://tinyurl.com/uckc7pk

The Progressive Conversion of Social Power into State Power
http://tinyurl.com/wm7zya4

Isaiah's Job
http://tinyurl.com/ncacsqz

The Difference between a Liberal and a Radical
http://tinyurl.com/uo77cmo

The Socialism of Mr. Shaw
http://tinyurl.com/vwvpw8v

Anarchist's Progress
https://tinyurl.com/quesybg

The State of the Union
http://tinyurl.com/wnx66rx

The Myth of a Guilty Nation
http://tinyurl.com/vralw32

What the American Votes For
http://tinyurl.com/qr2xx25

Jefferson Contra Hamilton: Too Tame, Too Late
http://tinyurl.com/vre6mk6

Liberty vs. the Constitution: The Early Struggle
http://tinyurl.com/vkpugem

Alas, Poor Yorick! An Apology for the Human Race
http://tinyurl.com/u9dg4uo

The Book of Journeyman: Essays from the New Freeman
http://tinyurl.com/u6df6db

The Freeman Book
http://tinyurl.com/v7q32pw

Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
http://tinyurl.com/r4e5vgt

Jefferson
http://tinyurl.com/qkuh6k7

On Doing the Right Thing
http://tinyurl.com/v6lvjrn

Cogitations from Albert Jay Nock
http://tinyurl.com/rmn6ffz

The Theory of Education in the United States
http://tinyurl.com/w6zod3u

Snoring as a Fine Art, and Twelve Other Essays
http://tinyurl.com/tr88job

Related online resources:

Albert Jay Nock: Forgotten Man of the Old Right
http://tinyurl.com/ws4gr9a

Albert Jay Nock and the Libertarian Tradition
http://tinyurl.com/vojfqbw

Rereading Our Enemy, the State
http://tinyurl.com/vseqfyb

Albert Jay Nock: A Gifted Pen for Radical Individualism
http://tinyurl.com/sskubmj

Albert Jay Nock
http://tinyurl.com/uzuyf4s

Gentle Nock at Our Door
http://tinyurl.com/svsbmas

Albert Jay Nock's Laws of Political Process
http://tinyurl.com/wk3jaes

John T. Flynn: Exemplar of the Old Right
http://tinyurl.com/rsevcfv

John T. Flynn: Revisionist Journalist
http://tinyurl.com/s2fkyvt

Garet Garrett: Exemplar of the Old Right
http://tinyurl.com/y6qylnlf