Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov was an advocate of the free market, individualism, and peace. He began as a supporter of Henry George and edited the Georgist paper the Freeman before founding his own journal, which became the influential Human Events. He later founded another version of the Freeman for the Foundation for Economic Education and lectured at the Freedom School in Colorado.

Articles

Free Will and the Market Place
Mises Wire Frank Chodorov
[ Adapted from an address before the American Farm Bureau “Farm, Family and Christian Resources” Conference, October 30, 1958; reprinted in The Freeman, January 1959.] Free will is the starting point...
Free Will and the Market Place
Mises Wire Frank Chodorov
Free will is the starting point of all ethical thinking and it plays an equally important part in the business of making a living. If man were not endowed with this capacity for making choices, he...
Let’s Teach Communism
Mises Wire Frank Chodorov
[A selection from One Is a Crowd by Frank Chodorov]: This is a defense of our universities. As they open their doors for another year of business they teach under a widespread suspicion of teaching...
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Publications

Fugitive Essays
Frank Chodorov
If you were putting together a collection of writings by Frank Chodorov, what would you include? It’s an almost impossible task because he wrote so much and there is explosive insight in nearly every piece. The goal might be, as it is in this volume
One Is a Crowd
Frank Chodorov
This is a treasure: One Is a Crowd. It collects Frank Chodorov’s most profound essays on the topic of individualism, many of which have otherwise been unjustly lost to history. The reader will be riveted by his biographical essay on the meaning of
Income Tax: The Root of All Evil
Frank Chodorov
Frank Chodorov was an extraordinary thinker and writer, and hugely influential in the 1950s. He wrote what became an American classic arguing that the income tax, more than any other legislative change in American history, made it possible to violate
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Media

What Individualism Is Not
Frank Chodorov
Enemies of laissez faire wish to saddle it with much unsavory baggage, writes Frank Chodorov. Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) was an advocate of the free market, individualism, and peace. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Clay Barnett.
Does the State Protect Us?
Frank Chodorov
When the enemy is at the gates, the individual abdicates his self-reliance and places himself unreservedly under the direction of the captain; he gives up his freedom in order to attain freedom. Or so he thinks, writes Frank Chodorov (1887–1966)
About Socialism and Socialists
Frank Chodorov
In every country the socialists have become office seekers, aiming to get hold of the reins of government by parliamentary methods, and for no other purpose than to enjoy the prerogatives and perquisites of office, writes Frank Chodorov (1887–1966)
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