All Posts Tagged With: "Frank Chodorov"
The Chimera of Tax Fairness
Let’s hear no more about tax fairness, unless it’s to point out that fairness is approached as tax rates move toward zero.
27Jan2012 | Sheldon Richman | 21 comments | ContinuedThe Freeman: An Eyewitness View
The Freeman has a long and distinguished history
in the cause of liberty.
Freedom and Virtue: The Conservative/Libertarian Debate
Libertarians and conservatives seem to want to get along; how else explain this book’s existence? It was published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a now-conservative organization founded by libertarian journalist Frank Chodorov as the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists. What happened when Chodorov passed control of his organization to more conservative characters is emblematic of the [...]
1Dec1999 | Brian Doherty | 0 comments | ContinuedFEE Classic Reprint: The Source of Rights
The late Frank Chodorov edited The Freeman for a time, was associate editor of Human Events, and the author of several books, including The Income Tax (New York: Devin Adair, 1954), from which this selection has been reprinted by permission. This essay shows why a socialistic society must decline because it fails to respect private [...]
1Mar1997 | Frank Chodorov | 0 comments | ContinuedAlbert Jay Nock: A Gifted Pen for Radical Individualism
American individualism had virtually died out by the time Mark Twain was buried in 1910. Progressive intellectuals promoted collectivism. Progressive jurists like Oliver Wendell Holmes hammered constitutional restraints as an inconvenient obstacle to expanding government power, supposedly the cure for every social problem.
1Mar1997 | Jim Powell | 1 comment | ContinuedFrank Chodorov: Champion of Liberty
Mr. Steelman is a staff writer at the Cato Institute. December 28, 1996, marks the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Frank Chodorov, one of the giants of the American Old Right. It seems appropriate to look back at his life and career, not only to pay homage, but also to rediscover some of the [...]
1Dec1996 | Aaron Steelman | 1 comment | ContinuedNo Rights without Property Rights
Reading between the lines of the news stories from Russia, or rather the commentaries on the news, one detects a note of hopefulness. Perhaps, they seem to say, the demotion of Stalin portends a measure of freedom for the Russian people. Admitting that a controlled economy is undesirable, is brutality a necessary concomitant of it? [...]
1Oct1956 | Frank Chodorov | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Kingdom Without God: Roads End for the Social Gospel by Gerald Heard and Edmund A. Opitz and The Powers That Be: Case Studies of the Church in Politics by Edmund A. Opitz
Introduction by James C. Ingebretsen. Los Angeles: Foundation for Social Research. 196 pp. $2.50. Introduction by Admiral Ben Moreell. Los Angeles: Foundation for Social Research. 104 pp. $1.50. (Both books as a set, $3.00) First, there is Religion. Then there is the Church. and inevitably there are Prophets. That seems to be the regular order [...]
1Sep1956 | Frank Chodorov | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Humanity of Trade
Far better that men come together for peaceful trade than meet on a battlefield. Wherever two boys swap tops for marbles, that is the market place. The simple barter is in terms of human happiness no different from a trade transaction involving banking operations, insurance, ships, railroads, wholesale and retail establishments; for in any case [...]
1Jul1956 | Frank Chodorov | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Dogma of Our Times
What history will think of our times is something that only history will reveal. But, it is a good guess that it will select collectivism as the identifying characteristic of the twentieth century. For even a quick survey of the developing pattern of thought during the past fifty years shows up the dominance of one [...]
1Jun1956 | Frank Chodorov | 0 comments | ContinuedAs Frank Chodorov Sees It
John Stuart Mill, says Professor Russell Kirk in a recent article in the conservative National Review, is “dated.” He was referring to the famous treatise On Liberty. The occasion for this dictum is the revival of interest in the treatise, by way of a couple of re-publications and the consequent appearance of critical articles. When [...]
1Apr1956 | Frank Chodorov | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: MacArthurHis Rendezvous with History by Major Gen. Courtney Whitney
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 547 pages. $6.75. When all of the participants in the strange politico-military drama identified by the name of General MacArthur shall have passed from the scene, and the passions it has engendered will have followed them to the grave, we may get to the bottom of the plot. It will [...]
1Apr1956 | Frank Chodorov | 1 comment | ContinuedAs Frank Chodorov Sees it
In the files of Congress there is a bill that proposes to invest the President with authority to regulate the market place. It is known as the “Stand-by Controls” bill. During the past two sessions the Administration has pressed for the passage of this bill, and continued pressure may be expected during the present session. [...]
1Mar1956 | Frank Chodorov | 0 comments | ContinuedAs Frank Chodorov Sees It
“You fellows,” say the interventionists, “don’t know what you want. You are always against, never for, anything. and you are often in disagreement as to what you are against. Some of you are against tariffs; others are not. You all talk about the free economy and small government, but you never agree on what limits [...]
1Feb1956 | Frank Chodorov | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Growth of an Idea
Thousands of FREEMAN readers have had little opportunity to learn about the journal’s publisher—the Foundation for Economic Education. So this month, in the space usually reserved for Charles Wolfe’s report of current “News From Irvington,” the folks at FEE will try to present a clear over-all picture of what they believe and what they do. [...]
1Feb1956 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedAs Frank Chodorov Sees It
On the thirty-eighth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, Mr. Lazar M. Kagonovich, spokesman for the Soviet regime, declared that “the twentieth century is the century of triumph of socialism and communism.” The gentleman implied, as a true Marxist should, that by the year 2000 A.D. the star of Moscow will direct the pattern of life [...]
1Jan1956 | Frank Chodorov | 0 comments | ContinuedGrand Street Never Dies
Mr. Chodorov is editor of The Freeman. Any mortal bearing The Truth may be right, but it is best to be cautious and skeptical Too bad you never knew the Grand Street “coffee saloon”; it was quite an institution before World War I. The coffee served was mostly milk—or it might be tea with lemon, [...]
1Sep1955 | Frank Chodorov | 0 comments | Continued-
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