The Early 1950s Freeman is Free

Some early 1950s issues of the ecumenical individualist journal The Freeman (the Henry Hazlitt/John Chamberlain version that segued into the version still published by the Foundation for Economic Education) have been scanned and placed online for your and history's pleasure by the Mises Institute. See them here. A very interesting look into the days when the postwar right and libertarian movements had not yet diverged as clearly as they later did. And for way more on that story, see my book Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement.

Comments

[Jaybird]

"The Case For Eisenhower"?

If I wanted to read leftist trash, I'd hop over to The Corner.

[Jaybird]

With that out of the way, let me just say that the letters pages are delightful.

My day is now shot.

[Jaybird]

Oh my God and the ads!!!

Now I want a time machine to go back there so long as I can take my internet and LCD television with me.

[kilroy]

What are 'ads'?

[Jaybird]

The print ads. In the pdfs. Of the magazines.

[kilroy]

Indeed, AdBlock's not gonna be much help with those.

[Doug Thorson]

We owe a great debt to Leonard Read and FEE. Ludwig Von Mises was able to complete his work because of them. Academia would not give him a job (in the U.S.) and they still don't recognize him today. The Mises Institute is a great place to learn more.

[Brandybuck]

The Freeman has always been free. As in the public domain. There never has any restrictions on copying it. What this news is about, is that Jeffrey Tucker finally realized it and started uploading scans.

[Douglas Fletcher]

I read Brian's book a while back and recommend it highly -- even though it is long it's very informative and entertaining. There have been some interesting characters in these movements down through the years, to say the least.