- Albert Jay Nock: The Superfluous Man Jack Schwartzman (Author's Note: One of the great influences in the life and writings of Frank Chodorov was Albert Jay Nock . It is for that reason that the following article, which once appeared in FAITH AND FREEDOM, is especially abridged and revised for this issue of FRAGMENTS. All quoted paragraphs are taken from three of Nock's books: On Doing the Right ...www.cooperativeindividualism.org/schwartzman_nock.html