The source of this discomfort, in Harper's view, was the Society's insistence on appearing to be a space of neutral intellectual inquiry, an attitude that the politicized FEE roundly rejected: "We have acquired the label of intolerance to views differing from our own . . . and the price we must pay for it is a degree of 'cold shoulder,' a strong feeling of suspicion whenever we appear to aggress."

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1468