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Free Markets Blossom in Vietnam →

July 7, 2010

Downtown Hanoi even boasts a three-story luxury shopping mall, and the people shopping in it are not predominately foreigners.

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Good Economists, Bad Economists and Walmart →

June 29, 2010

The anti-Walmart campaigns of today are eerily reminiscent of the Luddite crusades against chain stores seven decades ago—proof of the old adage that the more things change, the more they remain the same.

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George Washington Plunkitt and Honest Graft →

April 19, 2010

The forgotten robber barons of Tammany Hall.

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How We'll Know When We've Won →

April 19, 2010

We’ll know we’ve won the future for liberty when “public service” is regarded as what one naturally does in the private sector.

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Your Daily Liberty Checklist →

February 23, 2010

Put a check mark next to any that apply.

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Where Have All the Monetary Cranks Gone? →

February 22, 2010

They’re now wearing pinstripe suits and instead of selling inflation per se, they’re hawking “stimulus” and “full employment.”

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The Locofocos: When Democrats Were Principled and Respectable →

January 1, 2010

If you’re unhappy that today’s political parties give lip service to equal rights as they busy themselves carving yours up and passing out the pieces, don’t blame me. I’m a Locofoco.

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The Sound of Freedom →

November 18, 2009

Some say The Sound of Music was corny, but for me it was an epiphany. It’s my favorite film, and it always will be.

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Child Labor and the British Industrial Revolution →

October 23, 2009

Child labor was relieved of its worst attributes not by legislative fiat but by the progressive march of an ever more productive capitalist system.

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A Tribute to the Polish People →

September 23, 2009

To all those millions of Polish freedom fighters who ushered communism into the dustbin of history, thank you for your courage, your perseverance, your vision, and your example.

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Two Cheers for Transparency →

May 21, 2009

If citizens knew more about how their governments really worked and what they spent other people’s money on, it would not only make for better-informed citizens but for better (and hopefully less) government at the same time.

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All the News that's fit to Tint →

April 6, 2009

What amazing magical powers our benevolent government has! It stimulates when it spends, unlike what happens when the rest of us spend.

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What We Believe →

March 29, 2009

Pessimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. We are waging a battle of ideas to win, not to make a living, bide our time, or go down with the ship with a smile on our faces.

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A Trillion Wrongs Don't Make A Right →

February 27, 2009

If we had listened to the Indiana legislature in 1947, we might be several trillion dollars freer today.

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A Man Who Knew the Value of Liberty →

January 20, 2009

Khmer Rouge Survivor and Academy Award Winner Haing Ngor Didn't Take Liberty for Granted. The sad ending to his story was his murder in Los Angeles in February 1996.

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Freedom or Free-for-All →

September 1, 2008

The lofty notion that individuals possess certain rights—definable, inalienable, and sacred—has been cheapened and mongrelized beyond anything our Founders would recognize. 

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History for Sale: Why Not? →

May 1, 2008

Have you ever noticed that the greatest book-burners in history have been governments, not private individuals?

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The Earl of Wemyss and the Liberty and Property Defense League →

July 1, 2007

Prior to the 1880s, “individualism” was a term of opprobrium in most quarters, referring to “the atomism and selfishness of liberal society.” The League appropriated the word and elevated its general meaning to one of respect for the rights and uniqueness of each person.

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Private Profit in Public Schools →

February 23, 2007

To waste time and money spreading myths and misconceptions about profits and private firms serves no one but selfish interests.

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One of my favorite films of all time →

February 5, 2007

Two centuries ago, William Wilberforce showed us that one man can make a world rife with institutionalized corruption and inhumanity a better place.

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Government Shutdown Exposed the Biggest Lie in Education
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Government Shutdown Exposed the Biggest Lie in Education
Oct 31, 2025

“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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Millions Gather to Express Total Ignorance
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Millions Gather to Express Total Ignorance
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“We're going to join our voices together and let the message ring loud and clear that we are uneducated rubes in desperate need of a middle-school social studies class,” said one man. Problem is, they DID have middle-school social studies, at great expense to the taxpayer, and still turned out to be rubes. Maybe there’s a connection??

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Argentina's Economy Didn't Collapse; It Roared Back to Life
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Writes Dionysis Partsinevelos, “Experts warned that electing a chainsaw-wielding libertarian outsider as president would push the country over the edge. Instead, the unthinkable happened: Argentina’s economy started working again.”

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Recent Quotes

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Murphy on America
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Murphy on America
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“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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Montana's First Non-Indigenous Settlement
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Montana's First Non-Indigenous Settlement
Nov 18, 2025

The St. Mary’s Mission and Museum in Stevensville is well worth your time when you’re in western Montana.

Nov 18, 2025
Dusting Off an Old but Important Story
Nov 13, 2025
Dusting Off an Old but Important Story
Nov 13, 2025

France was on the verge of national bankruptcy when the Revolution began in 1789. A rising chorus of panicked legislators called for printing paper money as a solution, but many people still remembered the ruin their ancestors suffered only 70 years before.

Nov 13, 2025
I (Identify As), Pencil
Nov 11, 2025
I (Identify As), Pencil
Nov 11, 2025

I was born a lawnmower but now I am a pencil. You can’t erase me, but I can erase you. Literally. So don’t offend me.

Nov 11, 2025