analysis: a blog for individualists

Just a few days ago, a great new blog was born:

Welcome to analysis

From 1944 to 1951, Frank Chorodov wrote, edited and published analysis, a monthly broadsheet that sought to stem the tide of rising statism. While it never garnered more than 4,000 subscribers, analysis was (is) unique for its voice, its clarity and its influence.

It is the modest hope of this blog's present authors that Chodorov's spirit can be maintained through postings, comments and discussions. While this analysis may differ with Chodorov on a few specific issues (although we can't think of any off the top of our heads), we share his view that humans are wiser, happier and richer when left free.

And already they've got me updating the BlackCrayon dictionary for the first time in a while:

The word 'individualist' had little of the idea of the abstracted self that the word today conjures. Rather, it was a dense concept suggesting an alternative to the collectivism of socialism and communism, certainly, but also remaining open to the interaction between the individual and his society and culture that crafts distinctive personality. Individualists, in this sense, belong to societies in ways they couldn't possibly belong to states, any more than theory could be wholly self-created.