White nationalists, neo-Nazis, and members of the “alt-right” hurl water bottles back and forth against counter demonstrators on the outskirts of Emancipation Park during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
This column is long overdue. It is a confession of my own unjustified credulity and an apology for my naivete at how public life is managed behind the scenes. It pertains to the most conspicuous display of extremist activism of the last decade, one that caused revulsion among vast numbers of people.
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
