Ed Krayewski on the Return of the Anti-War Right

In the February 1987
issue of Reason, Bill Kauffman wrote about the history of
the “anti-war capitalists,” explaining that while this cohort of
activists did not look like the kind of protesters that were most
prominent in the “peace movement” of the 1960s, ’70s, and even
’80s, they could trace their intellectual roots through a long
tradition of libertarian anti-war thinking. Kauffman explained that
before the era of the left-wing peace movement, opponents of war
were “midwestern industrialists and retired military officers,
publishing giants and Texas oilmen, or minerals executives and
Great Plains farmers.”

Today, writes Ed Krayewski, the idea of non-interventionism has
re-entered the mainstream, in part because of the growing influence
of libertarianism in American politics.

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