Archive for Frederick A. Manchester

Moral Education and History

From the historical record may be drawn some suggestions for a moral regeneration in our time.

1Jul1968 | | 1 comment | Continued

On a Text From The Federalist

Dr. Manchester is an educator, formerly of the Department of English, University of Wisconsin. While reading recently in The Federalist, I was struck by a quality of its thought which bore no relation to my immediate in­terest, but which seemed signifi­cant, and whose significance has grown upon me with reflection. This quality I call moral [...]

1Apr1961 | | 0 comments | Continued

Republic and Democracy: A Study in Meanings

The subject of the following article was suggested by the editors to Dr. Manchester, an educator formerly of the Department of  English, University of Wisconsin. Evidence had accumulated that there exists considerable vagueness, or even confusion, regarding the two terms here examined, and some clarification seemed desirable. We do not become good libertarians merely by [...]

1Jan1961 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Tricky Four Freedoms

Dr. Manchester is an educator, formerly of the Department of English, University of Wiscon­sin. Logic, it has been said, not with­out point, is horse sense made asinine. Certain it is that many a man who never heard of it has done handsomely without it. Nevertheless it sometimes has its uses, and since any success achieved [...]

1Apr1960 | | 0 comments | Continued

Lawmakers or Robots?

The True Representative Principle

1Jan1960 | | 0 comments | Continued

A Better Way of Selecting Presidents

Dr. Manchester views a timely sub­ject from still another angle (see his "Apropos of the Presidency" in The Freeman for June 1959), and argues for what is in essentials the Constitu­tional method of choosing our Chief Ex­ecutive. Commenting on the present article, he says: "I am of course under no illusion, as I trust I [...]

1Oct1959 | | 0 comments | Continued

Apropos of the Presidency

Dr. Manchester is an educator, formerly of the Department of English, University of Wisconsin. The Foundation for Economic Education has recently been rec­ommending the disciplines of "con­centration, contemplation, medita­tion"—in short, I take it, the act of thinking; and, naturally, what FEE wants us to think about is economic topics or political topics or both.’ Well, [...]

1Jun1959 | | 1 comment | Continued

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