My good friend and FEE colleague TK Coleman interviews me at FEEcon 2019 about ideas and events important to me over the years.

The story in Ralph Lazo’s belated obituary reminded me of a Biblical passage. In John 15:13, Jesus said, “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

Socialism nullifies the Golden Rule. Socialists proclaim “solidarity with the people.” They say they only want to help others. The problem is how they seek to do it. If their plans were in the realm of friendly advice, helpful hints, and requests for voluntary participation, they wouldn’t be socialists. FORCE is their modus operandi.

This five-minute video explains that Jesus never supported forcible redistribution of wealth, central planning of the economy, government welfare programs, or public ownership of the means of production.

What was once widely regarded as the responsibility of parents is now generally seen as the duty of government, and government is one of the last entities we should ever expect to be good at teaching us either liberty or character.

He marshaled the English language on behalf of ideas, and they sparked liberty’s loudest thunderclap in human history.

The ancient Roman Republic endured for half a millennium before it collapsed into the imperial autocracy we know as the Roman Empire. But did you know there was another Roman Republic only 170 years ago?

The truly sad part of the story is that Babeuf’s communist/socialist gibberish was born again with Karl Marx 50 years later. Will the world ever put behind it the rantings of these murderous ideologues?

She possessed more integrity and honor than any of the big-name male rabble-rousers of her day.

As bad as the IRS is today, just imagine what things would be like if it hired MS-13 to be your auditor.

I believe that being a principled person is so important that it’s one of the two or three things I would most want to be remembered for someday.

La libertad es el futuro. ¡Únete a la causa!

Thanks to all of you who have helped in even the smallest way to make my time at FEE a great joy over the years. Never give up. Our cause is noble. It’s worth fighting for. And you may never find a more effective ally in winning the future for liberty than the Foundation for Economic Education.

Subjects I discussed in this April 2019 interview for the Startup Societies Foundation include the medieval Republic of Ragusa, contract cities, and educating for freedom.

Commemorating one of the long-forgotten corners of Europe whose liberties and independence Napoleon crushed, the Septinsular Republic.

After Adam Smith and the Enlightenment, the pseudo-science of Egonomics gave way to the genuine science of Economics. To apply Hayek again, this time with a little license, the curious task of Egonomics was to fool men into believing far more than they know about what they dreamed they could plan, whereas “it’s the curious task of Economics to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they could design.”

Slavery was common around the world in the Middle Ages, as it had been since ancient times. Ragusa abolished it in 1416. This was a place that appreciated the vital importance of private enterprise and encouraged it by leaving it alone to invent, innovate, and prosper. Ragusa had a bias for the entrepreneurial.

Have courage. Be principled. Keep your character high. Master your subject and the ability to communicate it. Be persistent and relentless. You can change your country and you can change the world. Friends of liberty in all corners of the globe are with you and are counting on you.

You will be moved by this 11-minute audio story of Wuilly Arteaga, a courageous violinist and opponent of the rotten socialist kleptocracy of Nicolas Maduro.

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