Ivor Thomas came to understand that, in his words, "The prime fact of human nature which the wise statesman must take into account is that men will exert themselves for their own benefit, or for that of their families, regarded as an extension of themselves, as they will exert themselves for no one else.”

Did your history teacher tell you any of this?

In a letter to a friend in 1930, Carver wrote, “I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations through which God speaks to us every day, every hour and every moment of our lives, if we will only tune in.”

Liberty is our most precious possession, because it is the blessing that begets all other blessings: human dignity, decency, prosperity, and more.

The name of Robert Peel deserves the admiration of good people everywhere, not only on this anniversary of his death, but forever.

London’s Express newspaper reported that high-ranking British Labour Party politician John McDonnell told an interviewer, “I still see Jesus as a socialist.”  McDonnell is a moron or a deceiver, or likely both.

A new book explores how property rights and free markets are good for the environment.

He preached Marxism in the classroom, now he gets to preach it to himself behind prison bars. The wasted life of a nutty professor.

Wealth and inequality: Debunking Myths about Socialism. Patrick Donohoe interviews me on TheWealthStandard.com.

It may be harder for a socialist to get to Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

"Man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around." 

It was pretty much 70 days of chaos, tyranny, and stupidity—draped in red flags and political correctness.

Seven reasons to get this book! Strike a blow against socialism.

Liberty is rare and precious. When it goes, it may not appear again for generations.

The Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793 was one of the new country’s earliest and best examples of the cascade of private charity that defined the nation for the next two centuries.

Henry David Thoreau asked, “Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then?”

Whatever your faith may be (or even if you presently possess none), don’t make claims about Jesus and money that can’t be supported by his words and historical context. He never turned up his nose at the concept of a medium of exchange, or honestly earning it in productive commerce.

Another version of this lecture appears in the “Talks” section, but this one included some great questions from members of Students for LIberty-UK — May 15, 2020. You can get my book, “Was Jesus a Sociallst?” at the FEE.org store, or from the web sites of Barnes & Noble, ISI Books, or Amazon.

Capitalism, even when adulterated with endless restrictions, taxes, political cronyism and the like, is a hair-trigger away from mindless, sweeping condemnation. The benevolent state, in spite of its monotonous and often deadly failures, gets a pass.

Even before any of his own businesses flopped, Milton had a front-row seat to his father Henry’s seemingly endless entrepreneurial misfires. Persistence, a very admirable trait, made the humble and generous Milton Hershey a rich and famous man.