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Put More Bliss in Your Life →

August 30, 2019

As always, a week in the glorious wilds of Montana will be the calmest, most relaxing and rejuvenating seven days of my year.

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Guns Prevent Thousands of Deaths Every Day →

August 23, 2019

Liberty isn’t the only thing likely to be lost when gun laws are passed to appease emotions over reason, evidence, logic, and rights. Lives will most assuredly be lost, too. Lots of them.

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If Bastiat Ran For President →

August 21, 2019

Bastiat on the debate stage with presidential candidates: "You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don’t you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."

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Ninety Years Later: The 1929 Crash →

August 15, 2019

In August 1929, most stock investors thought they’d never had it so good. By November, they thought they’d never had it so bad. Amid today’s gyrating stock market and increasing talk of recession, let’s refresh ourselves on the momentous events of nine decades past.

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Heroines of British Abolitionism →

August 7, 2019

The liberation by Great Britain of an entire race from the scourge of slavery was an achievement of, by, and for not just men but also of both men and women. It should forever be celebrated as such.

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Helping the Poor: What's The Christian Thing To Do? →

July 30, 2019

Few things are riskier than a welfare state. It’s put more than a few countries out of business or off the map. But no nation ever died because of an overabundance of character.

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Who Was America's First Economist? →

July 21, 2019

Everybody knows who America’s first President was, but can you identify the country’s first economist?

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Reflections on My Life →

July 18, 2019

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

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What a Friend Ralph Lazo Was! →

July 14, 2019

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.”

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The Meaning of the Golden Rule →

July 11, 2019

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.

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A New Prager University video: "Was Jesus a Socialist?" →

July 8, 2019

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.

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Wormhoudt's Words of Wisdom on Education →

July 7, 2019

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.

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This is TJ's Day →

July 4, 2019

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

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Lessons from a Five-Month Country →

July 3, 2019

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?

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The Marxist Before Marx →

June 11, 2019

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?

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Heroine of the French Revolution →

June 6, 2019

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

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Introducing Wat Tyler and his REALLY Mad Band of Followers →

May 30, 2019

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

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Why Principles Matter →

May 24, 2019

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.

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Announcing the Launch of “FEE en Español” →

May 7, 2019

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

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My Final Week as FEE’s President →

April 30, 2019

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.

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