In the early FAIR days, I read everything I could on the right (I was tweaked for reading The American Spectator in the office), including back issues of the National Review and The Freeman at the NYPL, which also carried later versions of the American Mercury, long after Mencken left, when it became a Birchite pub. Speaking of which, I worked for Birchers for over 6 years, and had many long conversations with them. I dated an Objectivist, and had correspondence with weirdo libertarian writers like Samuel L. Konkin III. I mentioned this once to Chomsky, who said I was wasting my time with these people, whom he thought were strangely unique on the world stage. Precisely my reason for reading/speaking with them.
Dennis