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The Old Right usually refers to the right-wing movement in the United States in the decades prior to the emergence of William F. Buckley's brand of modern conservatism and the New Right in the 1950s and 1960s. The Old Right was classical liberal, opposed to U.S. entry into World War I and World War II, and opposed to Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. The Old Right is one of several roots of both libertarian and paleoconservative thought, but as a distinct movement had ended by the 1950s, with the remaining remnants read out of the emerging conservative movement by William F. Buckley.

The Old Right in the United States was very distinct from the meaning of the old political right in Europe. In Europe, right-wing meant monarchist, militarist, favoring pomp, ceremony, tradition, and individual subservience to church and state. In the United States the Old Right stood for what was called liberalism in Europe: Jeffersonian ideals, laissez-faire economics, limited government, and favoring individual rights over those of the state. The wake of the Great Depression, World War II and the Cold War left the Old Right out of favor.

Examples of people associated with the Old Right

• Harry Elmer Barnes
• John T. Flynn
• Garet Garrett
• Rose Wilder Lane
• H.L. Mencken
• Albert Jay Nock
• Isabel Paterson
• Robert Taft

See also

• Old Left
• New Left
• New Right
• Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought