Word: freemans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine of political opinion, The Freeman has changed considerably during the past nineteen months. In its first issues this fortnightly right-wing organ had acted like a drunken paper-hanger, slapping "bloody red" labels on everyone in sight. The original Freeman saw modern art as a Communist plot to accelerate capitalist collapse, said there was non-Communist Left, described America's European allies as "unrecognizably neurotic" and disloyal. But this week Editor John Chamberlin sent a "Newest Freeman" to fifty university cities. It sports a glossy cover and four full page ads--but what is more important, The Freeman...
...signed articles The Freeman repeats familiar right-wing opinions "Our Leftist Economic Teaching" by Ludwig Von Mises berates ex-Harvard economist Dr. Paul Sweezey for being too naive a socialist, then criticizes a critic of Sweezey's for being too unmilitant an enemy of socialism. Then Von Mises discusses a sinister, but unnamed, group of people called "progressive intellectuals" (who are also by definition Marxists, Veblenians, and Central Planners). Apparently these people held short-term jobs in Washington and came back to their universities with the "mentality of authoritarianism" and a view of the state as "God-sent guardian...
Ground Swell. Chamberlain credits the Freeman's upsurge to a "political and psychological ground swell in our direction," and he hopes not only to ride it but to help influence it. In the '30s, when Chamberlain was a young stalwart of the left wing, he was well aware of the force exerted on middle-of-the-roaders by the leftish press. "We are now trying," says Rightist Chamberlain, "to pull the middle-of-the-road back to the right." Thus far the Freeman's pull has been hard, but uneven. The magazine has pointed...
Flotsam & Jetsam. On the other hand, the Freeman often shouts at its enemies in the same shrill tones it damns the left for using. In defending Senator McCarthy, for example, it calls his critics "mad" people who, like Pavlov's dogs, "foam" at the mouth every time his name is mentioned. It extravagantly hails John T. Flynn (The Road Ahead, While You Slept) as the "keenest journalist of our day," although many rightists think Flynn's hatred of Franklin Roosevelt has blinded his once sharp reporter's eye. The Freeman itself is often so blinded...
...reaction to this mixture, "people," says Chamberlain, "either love or hate us." But the Freeman's businessmen backers like the results well enough to give the editors a completely free hand. Though it lost $97,000 last year, the Freeman's editors confidently expect to reach their break-even point of 30,000 readers by the end of this year...