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How a Lowly Monk Ended Rome's Bloody Gladiator Duels →

January 1, 2020

He loved and valued life—the lives of others at least as much as he cherished his own.

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The Great Beer Entrepreneur Arthur Guinness →

December 31, 2019

Proverbs 20:31 tells us that “Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.” The key word there is “astray.”

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Why is Christmas on December 25? →

December 25, 2019

The first time the date was celebrated as Jesus’ birthday was apparently in the year 336, in Rome.

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Jesus a Socialist? Are You Nuts? →

December 24, 2019

As in so many other parables and teachings, Jesus’s Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard upholds capitalist virtues, not socialist ones.

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It's not "Giving" if it's Compulsory →

December 22, 2019

The apostle Paul says in II Corinthians 9:7: “Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

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Help from the Heart: Private, Voluntary and Effective →

December 18, 2019

Once, a very wise American president warned that dependence on politicians would sap the natural desire to assist our fellows in need and would cost far more than if we pitched in and helped directly ourselves.

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TIME Gets Capitalism Wrong--Again →

December 11, 2019

The case for capitalism rests on something far more important than material wealth. It is not refuted by the occasional bad eggs who misbehave.

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The Courage of a Nurse →

December 4, 2019

If ever I found myself in circumstances similar to those of Edith Cavell’s in 1915, I would hope I could muster even half the courage that she did.

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The Pilgrims' Famous Lesson →

November 25, 2019

The “people over profits” mentality produced fewer people until profit—earned as a result of one’s care for his own property and his desire for improvement—saved the people.

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Paul Polak, R.I.P. →

November 7, 2019

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.

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Donald Smith, R.I.P. →

November 1, 2019

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.

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Iraq's Economic Crisis is Self-Inflicted →

October 22, 2019

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.

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About That Che T-Shirt →

October 8, 2019

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.

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Horrors of Collectivism →

October 3, 2019

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

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I, Individual →

October 2, 2019

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.

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Climate Change: Are We Looking to the Wrong People for the Right Answers? →

September 30, 2019

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.

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The Constitution of the Killing Fields →

September 26, 2019

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.”

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Don't Call Scandinavian Countries "Socialist" →

September 26, 2019

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.

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Envy is the Root of Many Modern Evils →

September 21, 2019

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

 

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If Torture Builds Character... →

September 12, 2019

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.”

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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.

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“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.”

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Narrated by Naomi Brockwell, this new video tells the story of my recent essay, “I, Smartphone: Far Smarter Than You Ever Imagined.” Print version of the essay: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GP9MG18K

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The Founders' Reading List: The Curriculum Behind the Constitution
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In the first review of my forthcoming book, Born of Ideas: How Principles, Faith and Courage Forged America, Surse Pierpoint writes, “Chapter by chapter, Reed, an economist and President Emeritus at the Foundation for Economic Education, shows the same pattern: precedent accumulates, someone reads it carefully, and an institution gets built.” The book is available for pre-order now on Amazon.

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