Smart people are skeptical of the expansion of government power, because they know history, economics and human nature. They don’t allow such politicians to buy them off with other people’s money.

The uncommonly courageous few will rise far sooner than the timid multitudes, and it is to them that all of us who love freedom owe special gratitude.

A violent enemy of private property now wastes his last days in a small corner of public property. What a Marxist moron! Oops, sorry, that’s redundant.

We can certainly understand why New Yorkers right about now might appreciate something Henry David Thoreau once said: “If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”

One of my favorite people and a personal friend, Steve Forbes, interviews me on Jesus and economics.

While your “progressive” history professor was telling you how idealistic, reform-minded, forward-thinking and “for the people” Woodrow Wilson supposedly was, did he or she tell you about the courageous Hutterites who stood up to his heavy-handedness?

Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan celebrate the 200th episode of their FEE program, “Words & Numbers”, and I was very proud to be a part of the special occasion.

In the eight years of his presidency (1801-1809), did he practice what he preached? To a remarkable extent, yes he did.

Sebastian Stodolak of the Warsaw Enterprise Institute interviews me (November 2020) on my 1986 visit with the Polish anti-communist underground, Robert Higgs’ “ratchet effect”, the future of freedom and other topics.

Pursuing truth for its own sake and mustering the courage to speak it without equivocation should be the loftiest of objectives in any profession. They fit the life and career of Walter Williams perfectly.

Then there are the Samuel Kleins of the world—the truly uncommon marvels who overcome the unimaginable to become the unexpected. They are heroes, builders, creators of wealth, and servants to the millions whose lives they improve

If you want to know what produces a healthy, growing economy, think back to what motivates the individuals who comprise it. Encouragement looms large at every level.

By relieving individuals of challenges, which then deprives them of purpose, the welfare state is an unnatural and anti-social contrivance.

To Americans who remembered the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence in 1776 was a glorious echo from a century and a half before.

We all say we stand for freedom and what it implies, but what does it imply exactly? And most important of all, how can we defend it if we don’t know what it means? Check out this article in a new publication, El American, devoted to inspiring Latin Americans in ideas of freedom.

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

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.

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

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

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?