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May 3, 2005

How Communists Became Republicans


An interview with Justin Raimondo
by Scott Horton

Who and what is a neoconservative? Where do they come from? What do they have to do with Leon Trotsky, with Leo Strauss? How and why did they lie us into war with Iraq? These were my questions for Justin Raimondo on my radio show April 30, 2005, and this is what he said:

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Justin Raimondo is the editorial director of Antiwar.com. He is the author of An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard (Prometheus Books, 2000), Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement (Center for Libertarian Studies, 1993), Into the Bosnian Quagmire: The Case Against U.S. Intervention in the Balkans (1996), and The Terror Enigma: 9/11 And the Israeli Connection. He is a contributing editor for The American Conservative, a senior fellow at the Randolph Bourne Institute, and an adjunct scholar with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and writes frequently for Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.

 
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