Louis Bromfield (1896–1956) may be the most underrated voice of the "Old Right," especially in connection with its opposition to the Cold War.

The Old Right was a loose coalition of anti-statists and anti-interventionists in the early-to-mid20th century who opposed the New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and spoke against American entry into both World War I and World War II as well as against subsequent Cold War policies. As a generalization, and with notable exceptions, the Old Right was a libertarian-leaning branch of the Republican Party, which included the prominent Senator Robert Taft and Representative Howard Buffet. The anti-imperialist and free-market stands of the Old Right were a beacon that drew young activists such as Murray Rothbard.

The journalist and novelist Bromfield was a notable exception to many Old Right generalizations. Historian Joseph Stromberg offered a thumbnail intellectual sketch of the man. He "was a sort of Northern agrarian, a Jeffersonian democrat of the Old Northwest.… As a Jeffersonian agrarian, Bromfield believed free trade to be essential to the development of agriculture across the globe." Bromfield criticized the New Deal, though he gave a nod to some of its programs, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority. He supported intervention into World War II but turned adamantly antiwar thereafter, lending a powerful voice in opposition to the Cold War. His critiques demonstrated an almost unique insight into the revolutionary fervor that swept much of the post–World War II globe. His analysis seems as fresh today as in the 1950s.