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A Brit's Gift to America →

October 21, 2020

Mayflower II was Warwick Charlton’s way—privately, enthusiastically and without harming any taxpayers—of proclaiming his gratitude to America.

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The Tricentennial of John Woolman's Birth →

October 19, 2020

John Woolman almost single-handedly shifted the Overton Window among Quakers, who then became the prime movers in shifting the Window for an entire nation.

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Judge Barrett and the Krylenko Test →

October 14, 2020

Senators who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and the law hate the guts of a judge who does just that!

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The Uncommon Bessie Coleman →

October 12, 2020

What a bore humanity would be if no one were uncommonly good or uniquely talented or singularly inspirational or unusually courageous!

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The Mice That Roared →

October 11, 2020

One of the more famous ethologists in recent decades was John B. Calhoun, best known for his mouse experiments in the 1960s. To what extent do the mouse utopia lessons apply to humans and the welfare state?

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Human Action the Movie is Here! →

October 10, 2020

A new 90-minute documentary showcases the greatness of the economist Ludwig von Mises to the world.

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School Choice, Church Choice →

October 9, 2020

Hellfire and brimstone fell upon anyone who suggested, “Hey, let’s just give people their money back and let them choose where they want to go to church.”

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Six Lessons from the History and Economics of Taxation →

October 8, 2020

People do not like to be plucked too much. And why should they think otherwise? It’s their money!

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The Amazing Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth →

October 7, 2020

It sounds strange to hear the word “election” in the same breath as “king.” That’s not usually the way a king gets a throne.

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A September 2020 Interview with Joe Kerr of I Am a Watchman.com →

October 3, 2020

Why are so many millennials attracted to socialism?

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The Iron Fist in the Velvet Glove →

September 29, 2020

Power rots the soul. Rare is the individual who becomes a better person for having possessed it. (Another link to this article is https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/-the-iron-fist-in-the-velvet-glove/).

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How Should We Judge Diamond Jim Brady? →

September 28, 2020

He didn’t steal, mooch or demand anything from others that wasn’t owed him. Like privileged kings, he enjoyed the fine things with one big difference: He earned it.

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The Lies of The New York Times →

September 23, 2020

Why are public K-12 schools reopening more slowly from virus lockdowns than private schools? The New York Times says it’s because public schools have less money.

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Ancient Rome: A Lecture about Its Government and History →

September 10, 2020

What was the structure of the government of the ancient Roman Republic? What lessons can we learn from it? Thanks to Steve Dewey and the Bastiat Society of Washington, DC for this opportunity to lecture on the subject—August 27, 2020 via Zoom.

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The Radical Edmund Burke →

September 9, 2020

“All who have ever written on government are unanimous,” he wrote, “that among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.” This was a man who appreciated the indissoluble relationship between liberty and character.

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Shredding Socialism →

September 8, 2020

One hour and ten minutes of reducing socialism to a dumb idea that ignores history, human nature, economics and what’s right. Other than that, I guess it’s OK.

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The Poison of Presentism →

August 25, 2020

Presentism is fraught with arrogance. It presumes that present-day attitudes didn’t evolve from earlier ones but popped fully formed from nowhere into our superior heads.

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Making Marx Proud: Today's Campus Lunacy →

August 24, 2020

Millions of American students today are stewed in Marxist ideas, and we are financing it.

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The Most Violent White House Demonstration Ever →

August 20, 2020

When Clay realized his own life-long lust for the presidency would never materialize, he famously declared in a speech to the Senate, “I would rather be right than be President.” Time and again, he was neither.

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A Centennial That All Who Love Freedom Should Celebrate →

August 12, 2020

Thanks to this Polish victory, there would be no Bolshevik Western Europe.

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Does the Bible Teach Blind Obedience to the State?
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The simple answer to the question is No, of course not. And few would argue the point at all. Perhaps then the better question is To what extent does the Bible teach submission to the state? The surprising answer, on closer examination, is not all that much — Jeb Smith.

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Mill on Freedom
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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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Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
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Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
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“There’s nothing more frightening than a half-baked do-gooder who knows nothing of the world but takes it upon himself to tell the world what’s good for it — from his book, Musashi.

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As FEE looks to its 80th anniversary in 2026, we can be proud that in 1967, Leonard Read reinforced the importance of moral principles to the freedom philosophy.

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Remembering Yogi on His 100th
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To millions of Americans, he might have been better known for things he said than for the game he played. He remains a great and unforgettable American.

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Popes Pontificating on Immigration
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Popes Pontificating on Immigration
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Leo XIV should show understanding of America’s situation before he moralizes as Francis did on American immigration policy.

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