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How Venezuela Can Recover from the Sickness of Socialism →

February 6, 2019

Venezuela’s socialist nightmare is almost over. The questions of when and how it ends—hopefully without more bloodshed—are already giving way to thoughts of what comes next. How does a nation brought low by socialism recover? Answer: Liberty!

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Recent “Best of Web”

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A New Book on the Administrative State
Feb 8, 2019
A New Book on the Administrative State
Feb 8, 2019

The centralized institutions of the federal bureaucracy—has produced a regime change in America. A new book by John Marini, reviewed by William Turton.

Feb 8, 2019
She's Coming For YOU!
Jan 30, 2019
She's Coming For YOU!
Jan 30, 2019

You should take this evil socialist woman's agenda very seriously. She is coming for YOU. She wants your money, your choices, your private property and your contracts. She has what she thinks is a better idea for your life than anything you might have in mind. And everything she wants to do is compulsory. Socialists trust no one but themselves. Socialists are, by definition, extremely anti-social people.

Jan 30, 2019
Liberty to Learn
Jan 7, 2019
Liberty to Learn
Jan 7, 2019

This fantastic anthology by Kerry McDonald digs deep into the fascinating evolution of education in America, from its family-centered origins to the rise of compulsory schooling, and the gradual separation of education from schooling over the last 50 years.

Jan 7, 2019

Recent Quotes

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Reed on Goodreads
Nov 5, 2018
Reed on Goodreads
Nov 5, 2018

Thanks to whoever at Goodreads compiled and posted these.

Nov 5, 2018
George on Truth
Nov 3, 2018
George on Truth
Nov 3, 2018

“[T]ruth is the ground and condition of freedom. Unless it is true that human beings deserve to have fundamental liberties respected and protected, the tyrant does no wrong in violating them. Relativism, skepticism, and subjectivism about truth provide no secure basis for freedom. We should honor civil liberties because the norms enjoining us to respect and protect them are valid, sound, in a word, true” — Princeton professor Robert P. George, Twitter post, 1 January 2018.

Nov 3, 2018
Paterson on Government Schools
Nov 2, 2018
Paterson on Government Schools
Nov 2, 2018

“There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure…. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state” — Isabel Paterson in The God of the Machine (1943).

Nov 2, 2018

Recent Blogs

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Venezuela, Brazil, Brexit, Trump and More
Feb 15, 2019
Venezuela, Brazil, Brexit, Trump and More
Feb 15, 2019

A wide-ranging, February 15, 2019 interview with Crusoé magazine in Brazil.

Feb 15, 2019
Bad Quotes of Some Bad Presidents
Feb 11, 2019
Bad Quotes of Some Bad Presidents
Feb 11, 2019

The idea that children are an amorphous blob to be deployed for “the greater good” has been used to justify the most awful collectivist disasters, from Hitler’s Germany to Stalin’s Soviet Union.

Feb 11, 2019
What Capitalism is and Why it Works
Feb 8, 2019
What Capitalism is and Why it Works
Feb 8, 2019

One of the most important observations about humans is that each of us is extraordinarily and completely unique. No two people who have ever lived have been precisely the same. For me, that screams freedom because you can’t be who you are without it. 

Feb 8, 2019