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Why is Socialism ANTI-SOCIAL? →

February 11, 2021

Now that we know what socialism is, why is it anti-social? Let me count the ways. Six, at least.

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Two Miraculous Surgeries of 1893 →

February 10, 2021

How would you like to have delicate surgery performed in your mouth while on a boat—in its saloon, no less?

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The Best President of My Lifetime →

February 6, 2021

Unlike many US presidents, Ronald Reagan understood there was no loftier achievement for any society than freedom.

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Remembering the Harlem Hellfighters →

February 4, 2021

No matter what you think about America entering World War I, and no matter what color your skin, you can celebrate the heroic Harlem Hellfighters. They were among the best.

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The Henry Ford of Shoes →

February 1, 2021

In September 1991, the U.S. Postal Service issued a 29-cent stamp in memory of Jan Ernst Matzeliger. It was an honor he richly deserved.

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Why Limited Government? →

January 31, 2021

Keep government small and keep your eye on it because it will grab whatever power it can get its hands on at your expense.

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Big Brother's COVID Failures →

January 26, 2021

A retired government school teacher in my town, at the start of the pandemic, declared capitalism to be unable to handle a crisis. Here’s my response.

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New Zealand's 40 Years of Free Market Success →

January 21, 2021

What’s the big-picture lesson here? Montesquieu, the French Enlightenment thinker, summed it up in 1748: “Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.”

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Wisdom from Silent Cal's Inaugural Address →

January 20, 2021

Long before the Austrian economist F. A. Hayek noted that “The more the State plans, the more difficult planning becomes for the individual,” Coolidge knew it in his gut.

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Black, Blind and Brilliant →

January 19, 2021

So many black, blind and brilliant musicians grace our history that it’s difficult to fit them in a single list.

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Lessons About Money from the Georgia Gold Rush →

January 16, 2021

The notion that only government can “make money” is not only historically inaccurate, it’s also downright silly.

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In Praise of the Uncommon

January 15, 2021

I have no interest in homogenizing people in a socialist or egalitarian blender. Commonism is just one letter away from communism, a deadly poison.

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Tudor the Ice King →

January 14, 2021

Without men and women willing to dream and take risks, life for the masses would surely still be—in the words of Thomas Hobbes—nasty, brutish and short, just as it was for centuries until capitalism gave the entrepreneur a chance to succeed.

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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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Gore's Scam
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Gore's Scam
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Referring to the lies in his cartoonish fiction film, Gore says “It may not have been true in any way, but I sure enjoyed it. After all, I am now very, very rich" — Babylon Bee.

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Prominent Democratic Party leaders in Washington, D.C., took to the airwaves this week, calling for immediate reparations to be paid to make amends for the repeated success of African American Elon Musk — Babylon Bee.

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Berenson Wins Big and the Left-Wing Legacy Media Doesn't Tell You
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The journalist just won a huge victory for free speech. Why hasn’t the mainstream media noticed?

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Murphy on America
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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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Mill on Freedom
February 1, 2025
Mill on Freedom
February 1, 2025

“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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Animated Video: "I, Smartphone"
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Animated Video: "I, Smartphone"
June 18, 2026

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

June 18, 2026
The Founders' Reading List: The Curriculum Behind the Constitution
June 18, 2026
The Founders' Reading List: The Curriculum Behind the Constitution
June 18, 2026

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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Books for America 250
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Books for America 250
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Be inspired by these books. Celebrate America 250! Read online or download for free the Happy Birthday, Freedom! brochure from the Free Society Coalition, on whose board I proudly serve: freesocietycoalition.org.

June 14, 2026