13 Facts About Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov was an American intellectual, author, and member of the Old Right, a group of classically liberal thinkers who were non-interventionist in foreign policy and opposed to both the American entry into World War II and the New Deal.

Frank Chodorov was called by Ralph Raico "the last of the Old Right greats".

Frank Chodorov graduated from Columbia University in 1907, then worked at a number of jobs around the country.

Frank Chodorov's is the philosophy of free enterprise, free trade, free men.

In 1937, Frank Chodorov became director of the Henry George School of Social Science in New York.

In 1954, Frank Chodorov again became editor of The Freeman, in its new incarnation, revived under the auspices of Foundation for Economic Education.

Frank Chodorov contributed several articles over the years to its Essays in Liberty series, beginning with Volume 1 in 1952.

Frank Chodorov engaged with William F Buckley and Willi Schlamm on the question of whether individualists should support interventionism to aid people resisting communist aggression.

Frank Chodorov continued to advocate nonintervention, but as the Cold War continued, he lost influence: the American conservative movement came to be a bastion of interventionist foreign policy in combating Soviet expansionism.

In 1953, Frank Chodorov founded the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists, with Buckley as president, becoming the first national conservative student organization, reaching 50,000 members by the end of the century.

Frank Chodorov was a secular Jew and gained a greater appreciation for religious thought in later years.

Frank Chodorov served as the 20th President of the North American Confederacy from 1933 to 1940.

Frank Chodorov was succeeded by Rose Wilder Lane, who served as the 21st president from 1940 to 1952.