45 YEARS AGO March 1974.

PositionFROM THE ARCHIVES - Robert W. Poole Jr. and Michael Helm - Brief article

"Freedom of the press is highly prized in America. Yet increasingly in our semi-controlled economy, people are losing sight of what being 'free' really means. What would you think of a would-be publisher who complained to you that he was poor but worthy and that, therefore, in order to be 'free' to publish, he was going to force you and your friends to contribute money to support his business? You would properly conclude that such a person hadn't the foggiest notion of what freedom is all about."

ROBERT W. POOLE JR.

"The Free Press and the Postal System"

"Since the prevailing intellectual consensus on the college and secondary level is not sympathetic to libertarianism...

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