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Unless you have reason to believe the culprits in Washington are going to fix this on their own, consider the Article V option seriously.
The so-called “reforms” were far-reaching, to be sure, but they were also quintessentially authoritarian.
Did you know there were 32,000 “speakeasies” in New York City at the height of Prohibition? More on Prohibition here too: https://fee.org/articles/the-volstead-act-a-centennial-to-note-not-toast/.
What’s the connection between the two? A lecture for the Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri — March 14, 2024.
Reducing complex human actions and interactions to numerical expression gives off airs of precision and deep sophistication. In fact, however, such efforts are usually nothing more than oversimplification magnified by hutzpah.
During the 18th Century, Scots and Creeks were the principal players in a thriving transatlantic trade in which deerskins and furs from Georgia were exchanged for various European goods.
About Lawrence W. Reed
Lawrence W. (“Larry”) Reed became president of FEE in 2008 after serving as chairman of its board of trustees in the 1990s and both writing and speaking for FEE since the late 1970s. Prior to becoming FEE’s president, he served for 21 years as president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. He also taught economics full-time from 1977 to 1984 at Northwood University in Michigan and chaired its department of economics from 1982 to 1984.
A champion for liberty, Reed has authored nearly 2,000 newspaper columns and articles and dozens of articles in magazines and journals in the United States and abroad. He has visited 87 countries.