Oswald Garrison Villard (March 13, 1872–October 1, 1949) was an American journalist. He provided a rare direct link between the classical liberal anti-imperialism of the late 19th century and the conservative "Old Right" of the 1930s and 1940s.
Born in Wiesbaden, Germany while his parents were on a trip from the U.S., his early life was steeped in the Yankee traditions of antislavery, free trade, and entrepreneurialism. He was the son of Henry Vi...
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Oswald Garrison Villard (March 13, 1872–October 1, 1949) was an American journalist. He provided a rare direct link between the classical liberal anti-imperialism of the late 19th century and the conservative "Old Right" of the 1930s and 1940s.
Born in Wiesbaden, Germany while his parents were on a trip from the U.S., his early life was steeped in the Yankee traditions of antislavery, free trade, and entrepreneurialism. He was the son of Henry Villard, a wealthy railroad magnate of German origin, who owned The Nation and the New York Evening Post. His grandfather was abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison whose daughter Fanny Garrison Villard was a suffragist and one of the founders of the Women's Peace Movement.
Villard graduated from Harvard University in 1893. In 1894, he began to write regularly for the New York Evening Post and The Nation, and said that he and his fellow staff members were
"radical on peace and war and on the Negro question; radical in our insistence that the United...
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