[yes, I recognize the backhanded ad hominem ... ]
About The Freeman
The Freeman is the flagship publication of the Foundation for Economic Education and one of the oldest and most respected journals of liberty in America. For more than 50 years it has uncompromisingly defended the ideals of the free society.
Through its articles, commentaries and book reviews, several generations of Americans have also learned the consequences and contradictions that flow from collectivism, interventionism, and the welfare state.
No other magazine, outlet, or scholarly journal introduces readers to so many implications of what the free society is all about: its moral legitimacy, its tremendous efficiency, and its liberating effects in every area of life.
(fee.org)
During FEE's early years, it published essays, pamphlets and booklets dealing with various aspects of libertarian philosophy. The authors included both classical liberals of the past, such as Frédéric Bastiat and Andrew Dickson White, and such contemporary authors as Milton Friedman, George Stigler and Ayn Rand. [2] In 1955, FEE introduced a quarterly, Ideas on Liberty, which in January 1956 was merged with The Freeman, a bi-weekly free-market oriented news magazine which had been published in New York City since 1950. Due to low sales in the 1950s, the publication encountered financial problems and was taken over by FEE, an educational, tax-exempt Foundation in 1956. At the time of its take-over, it changed from a bi-weekly to a monthly publication initially called The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty. [ citation needed]
The editors of The Freeman have included Henry Hazlitt, John Chamberlain, Suzanne La Follette, Paul L. Poirot, Brian Summers, Charles Hamilton, and John Robbins. Henry Hazlitt, an economist and journalist, had been one of FEE's founders and his articles continued to appear regularly in The Freeman after its take-over by FEE. John Chamberlain became FEE's regular book reviewer and his reviews appeared in The Freeman until his death in 1995. Leonard Read, FEE's President, was also a regular contributor, as was FEE's economic adviser, Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises. Other contributors in the 1950s included: Barbara Branden, James Burnham, Frank Chodorov, John Dos Passos, Max Eastman, John T. Flynn, F. A. Hayek, Frank Meyer, Raymond Moley, Roscoe Pound, Wilhelm Röpke, Murray Rothbard, Morrie Ryskind and George Sokolsky . [3]
The Freeman is widely considered to be an important forerunner to the conservative publication National Review magazine, which was founded in 1955, and which from its inception included many of the same contributing editors. [4]
During its more than half century of publication, The Freeman has featured articles by economists, businessmen, professors, teachers, statesmen (domestic and foreign), students, housewives, free-lance writers, and budding libertarians. Many of its authors have gone on to become noted authors, teachers, and founders of libertarian organizations. It continues to discuss current economic and governmental issues from the same libertarian viewpoint which sparked the founding of FEE. [ citation needed]
On October 15th, 2012, it was announced that Sheldon Richman, who had been editor since 1997, was to be replaced by Max Borders. The move was seen as controversial and angered many readers due to pro-war views expressed by Borders. [5] The writers whose work has appeared in The Freeman in recent decades include such libertarians as Charles W. Baird, Donald J. Boudreaux, Clarence Carson, [6] Stephen Davies, Richard Epstein, Burton Folsom, Jr., David R. Henderson, Robert Higgs, David Kelley, Tibor Machan, Wendy McElroy, Lawrence W. Reed, George Reisman, Hans Sennholz, Bernard Siegan, John Stossel, George Leef, Thomas Szasz and Walter E. Williams.
(wikipedia)
At 10:25 PM 7/23/2013, you wrote:
On the surface of this, some good stuff here.....I am a little worried to dig and see who is producing this.....I see the word, "Freeman" on the first page (and a couple of others I have only just perused); but thanks for sharing this!--
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:16 PM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote:
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