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Albert Jay Nock (October 13, 1870 – August 19, 1945) was an American libertarian author, editor first of The Freeman and then The Nation, educational theorist, Georgist, and social critic of the early and middle 20th century.
What matters is not when and where he lived and died — (OK, 1870 to 1945) — but what he wrote and thought. Albert Jay Nock was an editor and author of many articles in well-read journals of his time. He is best known, though, for two of his enduring books, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, and Our Enemy the State.
Jul 4, 2000 · He was right to insist that liberty could be regained only by winning people’s hearts, one by one. Reprinted from The Triumph of Liberty by Jim Powell. Albert Jay Nock, author, aesthete, and social critic, was an advocate of liberty in a collectivist age.
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Despite the onslaught of wars and the relentless expansion of government power, individualism endures as a living creed, and Albert Jay Nock deserves considerable credit. He expressed fundamental issues of liberty with blazing clarity. He withstood withering criticism. He defied censors.
4 days ago · February 2020 By Joseph R. Stromberg. As a conservative “anarchist” and non-interventionist with anti-vocational views on education, Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945) can seem paradoxical. His influence was lasting and he took unconventional stances on many topics. He viewed conservatism as primarily cultural, anarchism as radical ...
By Nock – Albert Jay Nock. Since Nock composed so much of his work for periodicals, more of his individual pieces lie along the scale of an essay than the weight of a book. Each piece is as long as it took to convey his thoughts. Visit an independent library of works by Nock and others: IWP Books curated by Isaac Waisberg.
Albert Jay Nock. If there were literary justice in this world, Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945) would be considered alongside the great men of letters of the twentieth century. His Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943) is a magnificent biographical achievement that leaves a permanent impression on readers. His Our Enemy, the State (1935) is a major ...
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