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Great Moments in Civil Disobedience →

January 8, 2021

If the choice is obedience or conscience, I try my best to pick conscience.

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Politicians vs Statesmen: A World of Difference

December 28, 2020

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.

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The Religious Magna Carta →

December 27, 2020

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.

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The Lunacy of Socialism's Hostility to Private Property

December 21, 2020

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.

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Great Fires of History Aren't the Only Super-Spreaders →

December 17, 2020

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.”

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Steve Forbes Interviews Me on "Was Jesus a Socialist?" →

December 11, 2020

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

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Wilson and the Hutterites: An Unforgiveable Tragedy →

December 10, 2020

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?

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Words & Numbers: "The Adventures of Larry Reed," December 2020 →

December 9, 2020

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.

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Jefferson on Debt: He Warned Us!

December 7, 2020

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

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Freedom's Future →

December 7, 2020

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.

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The Steadfast Scholar →

December 4, 2020

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.

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Samuel Klein's Incredible Rags to Riches Story →

December 2, 2020

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

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How To Get the Most Out of Others →

November 30, 2020

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.

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Animals We Can Learn From

November 26, 2020

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

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Sublimely Pro-Liberty, Quintessentially American →

November 11, 2020

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

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Eight Principles of Freedom →

October 31, 2020

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.

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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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How Principles, Faith & Courage Forged America
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Doug Stuart of the Libertarian Christian Institute interviews me on the key ideas, events, and people of the American Revolution.

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Telling the Story of America and Why Its Founding Was So Exceptional
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Greg Maresca reviews my new book at American Thinker, Real Clear History, and Across Voices
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Maresca writes, “Reed’s prose is direct and unpretentious writing with the clarity of someone who has spent decades lecturing about economics and history. His tone is heartfelt, patriotic and unapologetically celebratory of America’s founding ideals…In a time when historical memory is often lacking and politicized, Reed offers a refreshing reminder on how America was built on ideas worth knowing, debating and defending.” The book is available now on Amazon.

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