The Seventh Congress of Freedom

The author of ‘The Conservative Mind’ finds the Congress still without a meeting of minds, but soberly working toward political rationality

The seventh annual convention of the Congress of Freedom met in Kansas City on April 17, 18 and 19: “an organization of conservative Americans presenting a cross-section of libertarian thinking.” Perhaps two hundred and fifty people came, most of them from the Middle West and the South. It was the smallest convention of the Congress thus far, but probably the most coherent; and it was organized by two intelligent doctors who are active in the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons—Dr. Arthur G. Blazey and Dr. James I. Doenges.

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The author of ‘The Conservative Mind’ finds the Congress still without a meeting of minds, but soberly working toward political rationality

The seventh annual convention of the Congress of Freedom met in Kansas City on April 17, 18 and 19: “an organization of conservative Americans presenting a cross-section of libertarian thinking.” Perhaps two hundred and fifty people came, most of them from the Middle West and the South. It was the smallest convention of the Congress thus far, but probably the most coherent; and it was organized by two intelligent doctors who are active in the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons—Dr. Arthur G. Blazey and Dr. James I. Doenges.