Archive for Edmund A. Opitz
Churches and the Social Order
The Reverend Mr. Opitz is a member of the staff of The Foundation for Economic Education, a seminar lecturer, and author of the book, Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. The church plays an important role in human life. It was once the unwritten rule in polite society that two topics have no place in [...]
1Aug1986 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedThe War on Poverty Revisited
The Reverend Mr. Opitz is a member of the staff of The Foundation for Economic Education, a seminar lecturer, and author of the book, Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies Capitalism, by conquering poverty, creates the “problem” of poverty. If we look back over the history of the past two or three thousand years we [...]
1Feb1986 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedLiberalism and Religion
The Reverend Mr. Opitz is a member of FEE’s Senior Staff Classical liberalism created a revolutionary new view of the political State, its nature and proper functions. We may better understand this sea change in political thought if we contrast the secular state of liberalism with it polar opposite found in the ancient world. The [...]
1Nov1985 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedBattle for the Mind
The Reverend Mr. Opitz is a member of the staff of The Foundation for Economic Education. This article is from a paper delivered at the Leonard E. Read Conference on Freedom at the Tarrytown Conference Center, December 2, 1994. The term Weltanschauung is nothing more than a highfalutin label for “world view.” Everyone has a [...]
1Mar1985 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Robber Barons and the Real Gilded Age
The Reverend Mr. Opitz is a member of staff of The Foundation for Economic Education. This article is from a paper presented at Roger Williams College, Bristol, Rhode Island, March 19,1984. The Civil War marks a deep cleavage in American life; the increasingly industrialized America of the latter decades of the 19th century was quite [...]
1Aug1984 | Edmund A. Opitz | 28 comments | ContinuedThe Market Economy and Its Life-support System
The Reverend Mr. Opitz is a member of the staff of The Foundation for Economic Education, a seminar lecturer, and author of the book, Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. The World we live in is divided. The major division, the division drilled into us by journalistic usage, separates the planet into the iron curtain [...]
1May1984 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Idols For Destruction: Christian Faith And Its Confrontation With American Society by Herbert Schlossberg
(Thomas Nelson Publishers, P.O. Box 141000, Nelson Place at Elm Hill Pike, Nashville, TN 37214), 1983 335 pages • $14.95 cloth; $8.95 paperback The modern world, as Mr. Schloss-berg perceives it, is steeped in polytheism. Strange gods comprise its pantheon, bearing odd names such as Historicism, Mammon, Humanism, Nature, Power, and Religion. A chapter is [...]
1Apr1984 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedTo Save The World
The Reverend Mr. Opitz is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. This article is from s speech delivered at the 40th annual confer-ance of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbus, Ohio, September 22,1983. Status quo is a Latin phrase meaning, in a modern translation, “the mess we are [...]
1Apr1984 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Mr. Jefferson by Albert Jay Nock Introduction by Russell Kirk and Our Enemy, the State by Albert Jay Nock Introduction by Edmund A. Opitz
Mr. Jefferson by Albert Jay Nock Introduction by Russell Kirk 202 pages • $8.95 paperback Our Enemy, the State by Albert Jay Nock Introduction by Edmund A. Opitz 109 pages • $6.95 paperback (Both books published by Hallberg Publishing Corporation, Delavan, WI 53115) 1983 The republication of these two classics occurs, auspiciously, forty years [...]
1Oct1983 | and Russell Kirk | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Man Versus the State by Herbert Spencer
Foreword by Eric Mack; Introduction by Albert Jay Nock (Liberty Classics, 7440 North Shadeland, Indianapolis, Indiana 46250) • 518 pages • $13.00 cloth, $6.00 paperback It was Albert Jay Nock who acquainted me with Spencer’s book on the State. Nock used to appear regularly in Paul Palmer’s old American Mercury, and in 1938 devoted one [...]
1Nov1982 | Edmund A. Opitz | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Genial Mr. Nock
The Reverend Mr. Opitz is a member of the staff of The Foundation for Economic Education, a seminar lecturer, and author of the book, Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. Bring together the shades of Erasmus, Shakespeare and Goethe and try to imagine what they would do. Play poker? Visit the Stock Exchange? Absurd! They [...]
1Nov1982 | Edmund A. Opitz | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: The Dominion Covenant: Genesis by Gary North
(The Institute for Christian Economics, P.O. Box 8000, Tyler, Texas 75711 ) 1982 • 496 pages • $14.95 cloth Gary North’s name is well known to readers of The Freeman as the author of a score of articles, lucidly written and well argued. His fortnightly newsletter, Remnant Review, contains brilliant analyses of current economic and [...]
1Oct1982 | Edmund A. Opitz | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: The Midnight Economist: Choices, Prices And Public Policy by William R. Allen
(Playboy Press, 747 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017), 1981 • 295 pages • $13.50 cloth By day he is an academically credentialed professor of economics at a prestigious university, and he also heads the International Institute for Economic Research. But when night falls he gets on syndicated radio for a three minute commentary as [...]
1Jul1982 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedPerspectives on Religion And Capitalism
The two major terms in my title are subject to extravagant misunderstanding and occasional abuse. Some of this is natural, due to limited knowledge; much of it is willful and ideological. It is appropriate, therefore, that I try to elucidate at the very beginning how the term “religion” is to be used in this paper. [...]
1Dec1981 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Americas Choice: Twilights Last Gleaming or Dawns Early Light? by James R. Evans
Book Review: America’s Choice: Twilight’s Last Gleaming or Dawn’s Early Light? by James R. Evans Published in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty – November 1981 by Edmund A. Opitz Printable Format (The Fisher Institute, 6350 LBJ Freeway, Suite 183E, Dallas, Texas 75240) 142 pages • $11.95 cloth Jim Evans is a businessman. That’s his [...]
1Nov1981 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov Compiled, edited, and with an introduction by Charles H. Hamilton
(LibertyPress, 7440 North Shadeland, Indianapolis, Indiana 46250), 1980 416 pages • $9.00 cloth; $4.00 paperback I never sat in a class under Frank Chodorov, but he was nevertheless one of my more memorable teachers. It began in 1947 with the Nock Memorial issue of analysis, given to me by a friend who knew of my [...]
1Apr1981 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Person and His Society
The Reverend Mr. Opitz is a member of the staff of The Foundation for Economic Education, a seminar lecturer, and author of the book, Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This article is adapted from a lecture delivered at The Center for Constructive Alternatives at Hillsdale College in Michigan. Every Person pursues his individual goals [...]
1Jan1981 | Edmund A. Opitz | 1 comment | Continued-
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