analysis

From November 1944 through January 1951, there appeared a monthly four-page broadsheet titled analysis, which publisher Frank Chodorov later described as "an individualist publication–the only one of its kind in America." During those years, analysis became an unofficial and feisty standard-bearer for what Murray N. Rothbard has called the "old American right." ... analysis proved to be an important intellectual link between the Old Right of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s and the development of the conservative and libertarian Right in the 1950s and 1960s.

In 1944, Chodorov began publishing a four-page broadsheet called analysis, in which in nearly every issue he was the sole writer. He greatly valued his editorial independence, calling analysis the 'most gratifying venture of my life.' ... Although analysis had a small circulation, it exerted great influence over many young conservatives and libertarians, including William F. Buckley ... and Murray N. Rothbard ... In the end, however, such devoted readers were unable to save analysis, and, as a result, Chodorov was forced to merge his publication with the Washington-based Human Events in 1951.

[Chodorov] founded his own broadsheet, analysis in 1944. In this little journal, he could truly write what he thought. (There is some resemblance between analysis and Dwight MacDonald's Politics–in the latter's left-wing pacifist phase.) Financial difficulties led to the merger of analysis with another little journal, Human Events, in 1951.

Rothbard broke into print by writing book reviews for analysis, a newsletter started in November 1944 by Frank Chodorov, the New York-born son of a Russian Jewish immigrant peddler. Chodorov explained, "analysis looks at the current scene through the eyeglass of historic liberalism, unashamedly accepting the doctrine of natural rights, proclaims the dignity of the individual and denounces all forms of Statism as human slavery." ... With fewer than 4,000 subscribers, analysis merged with a more topical weekly newsletter, Human Events, in 1951.