This man helped far more poor people than most alleged poverty-fighters. He knew the long-term answer to poverty was wealth creation, not wealth confiscation and redistribution, and he never taxed anybody to do the job.

Don Smith chose to join the FEE board because he believed in the importance of building the movement’s educational outreach, he thought FEE should be an important part of that, and he thought that he could help us figure out how to make it happen.

Iraq is a disaster of big government, central planning, and “leaders” with sticky fingers. Yes, yet another socialist basket case among so many that it’s hard to keep up with their number.

If you found out that the guy on your T-shirt was a mass murderer, you might ask your oppression studies professor why she left out a few important details.

Pol Pot, Maximilien Robespierre, Che Guevara and other collectivist thugs are the subject of this half-hour October 3, 2019 interview.

I’m not a replica, an appendage, or a cog. I’m a completely specific, utterly unique, self-winding, and inner-motivated one-of-a-kind. And so are you.

If our minds were more open—if we mustered more confidence in what free people can accomplish and learned to be more skeptical of bungling big government—we might take notice of some remarkable things already happening.

The contents of a nation’s constitution, its most supreme law, ought to be composed with care and precision and implemented with scrupulous fidelity. The constitution of the Khmer Rouge communists read as though the author’s orders were “Slap something together quickly and get it over with.”

The claim that socialism “has succeeded greatly” in Scandinavian countries is just shameless propaganda, hopelessly wrong and out of date. Those who make such ridiculous claims betray their real agenda of government control by never telling you these facts.

Envy is a form of income bigotry. Search your conscience. If you find envy within it, expunge it before it does its awful work.

Politics is the last place from which I would expect wisdom to flow. Comedian Groucho Marx advised, “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”

It’s never too late for new generations of Mexicans to get acquainted with one of the 20th Century’s greatest defenders of capitalism and freedom.

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

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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

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