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      Taxation as tyranny: American Progress and the ultraconservative movement

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      Radical Americas
      UCL Press
      conservatism, Liberty Amendment, libertarianism, radical right, Willis E. Stone, American Progress

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          Willis E. Stone watched aghast as mid-century liberals expanded the size and power of the federal government. Stone, a former industrial engineer and unbending anti-statist, believed this liberal surge obfuscated and abetted an imminent red tide of communism. He founded the American Progress Foundation and its flagship periodical, American Progress, to spread a hardline libertarian message, hoping to spark conservative resistance against federal power. In the pages of American Progress, Stone and a coterie of other right-wingers published conspiratorial, anti-statist diatribes and promoted Stone’s proposal, the Liberty Amendment, to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment. Right-wing business owners joined the fray, sponsoring American Progress through advertisements, and over time Stone’s movement expanded to form a collaborative network with other far-right groups. This article illustrates how American Progress served as an activist and ideological nexus for the broader ultraconservative movement, which helped establish a hardline brand of libertarianism that reverberated throughout the modern American Right. Furthermore, by analysing the scope and influence of radical right-wing publications, this article provides a critical counterweight to the traditional left-wing focus of periodical studies.

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              The Rise of Periodical Studies

              Within or alongside the larger field of print culture, a new area for scholarship is emerging in the humanities and the more humanistic social sciences: periodical studies. This development is being driven by the cultural turn in departments of language and literature, by the development of digital archives that allow for such studies on a broader scale than ever before, and by what the producers of the Spectator Project have called “the special capabilities of the digital environment” (Center). Literary and historical disciplines engaged with the study of modern culture are finding in periodicals both a new resource and a pressing challenge to existing paradigms for the investigation of Enlightenment, nineteenth-century, and modern cultures. The forms of this new engagement range from Cary Nelson's suggestion, in Repression and Recovery, that periodicals should be read as texts that have a unity different from but comparable with that of individual books (219) to the organization of groups like the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, founded in 1968, and the more recently established Research Society for American Periodicals. Every year new books are appearing that emphasize peri–odicals and investigate the ways in which modern literature and the arts are connected to the culture of commerce and advertising and to the social, political, and scientific issues of the time.
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                RA
                Radical Americas
                Radic. Am.
                UCL Press
                2399-4606
                30 November 2018
                : 3
                : 1
                : 10
                Affiliations
                Houston Community College
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                10.14324/111.444.ra.2018.v3.1.010
                d9ded55e-f362-45f6-86d9-96a7ecea51f5
                © 2018, John S. Huntington.

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ra.2018.v3.1.010.

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                Huntington, J. S. ‘Taxation as tyranny: American Progress and the ultraconservative movement.’ Radical Americas, 3, 1 (2018): 10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ra.2018.v3.1.010.

                Sociology,Political science,Anglo-American studies,Americas,Cultural studies,History
                conservatism, American Progress ,radical right,Liberty Amendment,libertarianism,Willis E. Stone

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