Frank Chodorov
You are a proud individualist, which is, Chodorov wrote, “the older and more meaningful” name for what is now called libertarian. Individual liberty is of paramount importance to you: “society has no warrant for invading” the rights to life, liberty, and property, and “government can render [a person] no service other than that of protecting him against his fellow man in the enjoyment of these rights.” Limited the government is thus crucial to you, as is the free market, for “it is in the free market that self-interest finds its finest expression.”
Chodorov (1887–1966) influenced generations of thinkers on the right with his incisive critiques of statism and his ardent defenses of individual liberty and free markets. In 1953 he founded ISI, originally known as the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists.
