In the long struggle of men and women against tyranny, what America’s Founding generation accomplished stands without comparable precedent.
Read MoreDid Liberty Win? Here's How To Tell →
It’s a sad commentary that politics consumes so much of our lives these days, but it’s the natural and inevitable outcome of having granted politics such a commanding role in the first place.
Read MoreNo Thanksgiving Without Profit →
“Profit is responsible for more good things—by a long shot—than all the charity in the world.”
Read MoreHeroes of Wealth Creation: A Lecture at the Heritage Foundation 10/29/18 →
John D. Rockefeller, Vivien Kellems, Ludwig Erhard, Andrew Mellon, Elijah McCoy, and others. Lecture: 40 minutes + 10 minutes Q & A.
Read MoreWisdom from Sallust, Tacitus and Livy →
As Will Durant told us, “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.”
Read MoreRemembering Solzhenitsyn →
Bad people are everywhere, but nothing brings them forth and licenses them to do evil more thoroughly than concentrated power and the subordination of morality to the service of a statist ideology.
Read MoreWas Jesus a Socialist? discussion on Acton Institute podcast →
Was Jesus a Socialist? The answer in this podcast, based on my essay of the same title (https://bit.ly/2b6guEd), is an emphatic, unambiguous, categorical, absolute, unqualified, unadulterated and resounding NO! And no ifs, ands or buts either.
Read MoreLeonard Read's "Anything That's Peaceful" →
At the center of this book of Leonard Read’s (one of nearly 30) was this simple but profound proposition: Allow people to live their lives free of the initiation of violence
Read MoreThe Wisdom of Barry Goldwater →
When I came home from government school one day and told him that all my teachers said Lyndon Johnson was the man to vote for, my dad instilled in me a healthy skepticism of classroom authority that’s only grown in the decades since.
Read MorePaul Johnson: One Superb Historian! →
From his countless books documenting centuries of history to his masterful ability to challenge the pseudo-intellectual left, Paul Johnson is worthy of high praise and celebration.
Read MoreIntroduction to Leonard E. Read's 1964 book, "Anything Peaceful" →
Read this book with an open mind and there’s a good chance it will change both your life and the way you see the world. That, as Leonard Read and his life’s work so steadfastly held, is in the end the most effective way to change the world itself, and all for the better.
Read MorePhotography and Entrepreneurship: An Interview with Alfonso Maestro →
Alfonso Maestro and his twin brother Gonzalo are entrepreneurs of a very interesting sort.
Read MoreOn Witold Pilecki for "Our American Stories" radio program →
In this podcast, FEE President Lawrence Reed discusses the only know person to be imprisoned voluntarily in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Read MoreRunning for Liberty in Brazil →
Lawrence Reed talks with Kim Kataguiri, Marcel van Hattem, and Priscila Chammas—candidates for National Congress.
Read MoreThe Stirring Elocution of Frederick Douglass →
It’s worth our time to reflect on the life and words of this great man born 200 years ago this year.
Read MoreThe Man Who Bankrupted a Legislature
To curry favor with Nevada legislators, he offered them confidential and convincing financial advice.
Read MoreCaligula: Plumbing the Depths of Ancient Tyranny →
The history of Rome is a case study in just how much power can corrupt a person, and Caligula is likely the case in point.
Read MoreIt's More Important to BE American than to BUY American →
It makes no more sense to inflict “Buy American” protectionism on yourself than it does to endorse it when it’s imposed on you by law.
Read MoreHappy Birthday Joseph Paxton, Much More Than a Gardener! →
A memorable British entrepreneur, architect and more.
Read MoreThe Great Emancipation of 1834 →
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.”
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