Editing Murray Rothbard (section)

=== Old Right ===
Throughout his life, Rothbard engaged in a number of different political movements to promote [[Old Right (United States)|Old Right]] and libertarian political principles. George Hawley writes that "unfortunately for Rothbard, the Old Right was ending as an intellectual and political force just as he was maturing as an intellectual", with the militantly [[Anti-communism|anticommunist]] conservative movement exemplified by [[William F. Buckley Jr.]] supplanting the Old Right's isolationism.<ref name=":8" />

Rothbard was an admirer of Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]]—not for McCarthy's [[Cold War]] views, but for his [[demagogue]]ry, which Rothbard credited for disrupting the establishment consensus of what Rothbard called "corporate liberalism".<ref name=":8" /> Rothbard contributed many articles to Buckley's ''[[National Review]]'', but his relations with Buckley and the magazine soured as he criticized the conservative movement for militarism.<ref name=":8" /> Specifically, Rothbard opposed how such militarism could justify and expand the state's power.<ref name=":11" />

Rothbard befriended the [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust denier]] [[Harry Elmer Barnes]] in 1959.<ref name=":7" /> In a 1966 issue of [[Robert LeFevre]]'s ''Rampart Journal of Individualist Thought'' devoted to [[historical revisionism]], Rothbard argued that Western democracies had been to blame for starting World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.<ref name=":7" /> Rothbard published works by Barnes in his journals before and after Barnes died in 1968, including posthumously in the [[Cato Institute]]'s journal.<ref name=":7" />