Freedom, Virtue & Conservatism’s Goals for Society: “Freedom or Virtue”

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the September 11, 1962, issue of National Review. L. Brent Bozell was responding to an article by senior editor Frank S. Meyer published in the January 16, 1962, issue of National Review.

. . . the “libertarian” takes as [his] first principle in political affairs the freedom of the individual person and emphasizes the restriction of the power of the state and the maintenance of the free-market economy as guarantees of that freedom.

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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the September 11, 1962, issue of National Review. L. Brent Bozell was responding to an article by senior editor Frank S. Meyer published in the January 16, 1962, issue of National Review.

. . . the “libertarian” takes as [his] first principle in political affairs the freedom of the individual person and emphasizes the restriction of the power of the state and the maintenance of the free-market economy as guarantees of that freedom.