Reason Writers Around Town: Damon Root on Liberal Opposition to the New Deal
In the September/October issue of the Cato Policy Report, Associate Editor Damon W. Root remembers the principled liberals of the 1930s who stood athwart the New Deal yelling stop. As Root writes, for the sin of believing that big business and big government should be kept as far apart as possible, they were dubbed heartless reactionaries and "economic royalists." Yet thanks to their brave opposition, some of the New Deal's worst excesses were brought to light or kept at least partially in check.