Recent Posts
In September 1944, General Eisenhower intended for Allied forces to eventually capture Berlin, the Nazi capital. By March 1945, he had changed his mind. Why? This is an essay I wrote 51 years ago as a senior at Grove City College.
Historians generally posit that the Roman welfare state appeared in the last century of the old Republic, beginning with grain subsidies in 123 B.C. But the racket is even older than that, by at least 300 years. Photo credit: Douglas Rissing via iStock.
A new, free eBook from FEE. On Chinese history from a liberty perspective by Lawrence W. Reed and Katrina Gulliver.
The U.S. never threatened or bullied Denmark before it peacefully purchased the Danish West Indies more than a century ago.
Arrested and incarcerated twice by the British for espionage, this Polish immigrant gave all he had to the American cause.
On the 250th anniversary of the appearance of Common Sense, I decided to give it a long overdue re-examination. I wanted to see if it would “electrify” me as it did so many people so long ago. It did.
January 8 is a very important day in the illustrious life of Australia’s preeminent champion of freedom and free markets.
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.
