Following this dramatic year, which saw not only the advent of the Cold War but the largest strike wave in American history, Crane quickly became active in a variety of organizations, all of which were dedicated to the general proposition that liberalism, even more than Soviet communism, was the gravest danger facing the United States in the postwar period.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1446