Bruce Ramsey

Articles

12/26/2008 Mises Daily Bruce Ramsey

The Ludwig von Mises Institute has reprinted the four novels written by Garet Garrett (1878–1954), one of America’s leading financial journalists and a libertarian. Garrett, who for unknown reasons had renamed himself so that both parts sounded alike, was a writer of distinctive ideas and a forcefully distinctive style. I’m an admirer of Garrett, and have long wanted his work to be easier to obtain.

Garet Garrett: Far Forward of the Trenches

08/01/2022 Mises Daily Bruce Ramsey

Joseph Sobran discovered these Garet Garrett essays “one night, long ago, at the office of National Review, where I then worked.” As the flagship of modern conservatism, National Review supported the...

In Search of a Basis for Freedom

09/29/2004 Mises Daily Bruce Ramsey

Bruce Ramsey reports on his visit to a seminar conducted by Jeffrey Friedman of Barnard College. “The first day at Princeton has been a hosing-down.”

Publications

Unsanctioned Voice

09/18/2008 Bruce Ramsey

What a fascinating life Garet Garrett lived! Journalist, novelist, anti-New Deal writer, and then prophet of decline in the 1950s, no one’s prose and thought combined to create such a rich combination of toughness and insight. He was a great champion

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