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New Hope for Higher Education →

January 31, 2021

Writes Stephen Blackwood, president of the new Ralston College, “We have tried—with institutes, campus groups, professorships, lectures, and the like—and while some good work has been done, our colleges and universities have continued to get worse, not better, despite these efforts.

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Haidt on Cancel Culture →

January 21, 2021

Jonathan Haidt, author of 'The Righteous Mind,' says one of the marks of an open and civil society is that individuals are not afraid to share opinions. By Brittany Hunter at FEE.org

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The Private Sector's Triumph →

January 12, 2021

Nicholas Kerr writes that “the private sector has been far more effective at steering us through the COVID crisis than the government has—and that should surprise no one.”

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Only Certain Looters Allowed In Here →

January 8, 2021

“Capitol police removed the unauthorized criminals from the Capitol Building, allowing the officially voted-in criminals to resume operations.”

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We Had the Vaccine from the Start →

December 28, 2020

For the duration of the pandemic, while hundreds of thousands died and the world economy was decimated by lockdowns, Moderna's highly effective vaccine was available, reveals Philip Steele at FEE.org.

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Shady, Slimy Swalwell →

December 9, 2020

Is there ANYTHING this dummkopf has ever done that’s been good for the country?

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Socialism: On Sale Today! →

December 4, 2020

This carnival barker has a deal for you!

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Saluting a Quadricentennial →

November 14, 2020

James Freeman of the Wall Street Journal salutes the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower Compact.

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Man Stands In Long Line Run By Government To Vote For Government To Run His Healthcare →

November 3, 2020

The government has apologized for the long voting lines and is assuring the public that the lines for their cancer treatments and hip replacements will be much better run. Right.

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Free to Choose: 10 of the Best Moments Ever! →

October 31, 2020

Bob Chitester saw that the great economist Milton Friedman was not just another distinguished intellectual. With his rapier wit, warm charm, and economic brilliance, Friedman had the makings of potential TV star and evangelist of liberty.

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From the Twilight Zone of AOC →

October 27, 2020

AOC has also put her own name into the running for a Biden Supreme Court nomination but hasn't heard back.

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Uniquely Bad, But Not Uniquely American →

October 18, 2020

Only 4 percent of the Africans who suffered through the middle passage across the Atlantic ended up in what would become the United States, writes Kay S. Hymowitz in City Journal.

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Parents Must Ensure Their Kids Understand and Appreciate Economic Freedom →

October 15, 2020

Kerry McDonald writes, “Defending capitalism from its naysayers and teaching its benefits to the rising generation are more important now than ever before.”

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Oh Yeah, Mail-in Ballots are Not a Problem →

September 28, 2020

“Cash, cash, cash. They were carrying bags of money. . . . When you vote and they mark you off, then you get in the van, they give you the cash.”

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Critical Race Theory is Intellectual Sewage →

September 14, 2020

It foments resentment, envy, and a victimhood complex among the oppressed class it claims to champion — as explained here by Dan Sanchez, Tyler Brandt and Brad Polumbo.

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Are Humans "Basically Good"? →

September 7, 2020

“Bruner holds an idealistic, nostalgic view of being a youngster, believing toddlers to behave roughly as they do on toy commercials, when they actually behave more like the kids in Stephen King's Children of the Corn,” writes the Babylon Bee.

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It’s Time To Stop Paying Colleges For Overpriced Leftist Indoctrination →

September 2, 2020

The recent toppling of statues of America’s founders and abolitionists is only a manifestation of both the ignorance and the radicalization of American youth, writes Helen Raleigh.

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Less Regulation is the Right Medicine →

August 16, 2020

“Americans today are living in unprecedented times and have seen that sometimes less regulation is healthier,” writes Steve Forbes.

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What Future Do We Have if Woke Warriors Destroy Our Past? →

August 7, 2020

“The modern presumption that we can stand in perfect judgment over history is both malevolent and unfair,” writes Douglas Murray.

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Every Child Left Behind →

July 30, 2020

At publishing time, the teacher’s union was planning a series of strikes to continue the Every Child Left Behind movement until a cure for all sickness and death was found.

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Fleeing Minneapolis for Mogadishu.

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The climatastrophe has been a terrible mistake. It diverted attention from real environmental problems, cost a fortune, impoverished consumers, perpetuated poverty, frightened young people into infertility, wasted years of our time, undermined democracy and corrupted science. Time to bury the parrot — Matt Ridley.


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“For decades, teachers unions and the liberal allies they bankroll in D.C. have told the American people that without the federal bureaucracy, education would crumble,” writes Ryan Walters.

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Recent Quotes

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Murphy on America
Feb 11, 2025
Murphy on America
Feb 11, 2025

“The true meaning of America, you ask? It’s in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman’s badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper. ... In all these things, and many more, you’ll find America. In all these things, you’ll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me” — Actor, poet, and the most decorated American of World War II, Audie Murphy.

Feb 11, 2025
Mill on Freedom
Feb 1, 2025
Mill on Freedom
Feb 1, 2025

“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.”

Feb 1, 2025
Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
Mar 20, 2023
Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
Mar 20, 2023

“There’s nothing more frightening than a half-baked do-gooder who knows nothing of the world but takes it upon himself to tell the world what’s good for it — from his book, Musashi.

Mar 20, 2023

Recent Blogs

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China's Past Through a Lens of Liberty
Jan 27, 2026
China's Past Through a Lens of Liberty
Jan 27, 2026

A new, free eBook from FEE. On Chinese history from a liberty perspective by Lawrence W. Reed and Katrina Gulliver.

Jan 27, 2026
When America Bought Land From Denmark
Jan 16, 2026
When America Bought Land From Denmark
Jan 16, 2026

The U.S. never threatened or bullied Denmark before it peacefully purchased the Danish West Indies more than a century ago.

Jan 16, 2026
He Gave It All for America
Jan 13, 2026
He Gave It All for America
Jan 13, 2026

Arrested and incarcerated twice by the British for espionage, this Polish immigrant gave all he had to the American cause.

Jan 13, 2026