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A Video Interview on America's Parallels to Rome →

May 6, 2021

Lots of great info in this video interview on ancient Rome and lessons for today — recorded in April 2021

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Joe Biden Knows Jim Crow--VERY well!

May 6, 2021

Get your history of Jim Crow from people who know what they’re talking about, such as Jerrold Packard and Bill Steigerwald and Ray Sprigle, not from politicians more interested in manipulating you than informing you.

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Two Big Brazilian Flops →

May 6, 2021

Even the most successful people confront the specter of failure. The question is can we learn from it.

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A May Day Lesson: The Real Reasons Wages Rise →

May 1, 2021

You owe it to yourself on May Day, and every day, to know what makes the difference between wealth and poverty for the workers of the world.

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A Dark, Dark Night →

April 26, 2021

An 11-minute audio podcast in the “Rule of Law” series of Lee Habeeb’s “Our American Stories,” based on articles of mine on the Wilson administration.

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The Power of Positive Example

April 20, 2021

To paraphrase Ralph Waldo Emerson, “What you are speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you’re saying.”

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A Deal with the Devil →

April 16, 2021

The first communist state enslaved millions and bedeviled the world until its collapse in 1991.

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Just Say No to the Marijuana War

April 9, 2021

If we banned milk, we would produce precisely the same effects we’ve seen with marijuana prohibition. The streets would be full of milk pushers. The milk business would go to the Al Capones of the world instead of your local grocer.

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The Deficit That Matters Most

April 8, 2021

Audiences ask me all the time, “Mr. Reed, what do you think the #1 problem is in the country today?” They expect me to say it’s government spending, or deficits, or crime, or opioids, or taxes, or racism, or the national debt. It is none of those.

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The First Female Mayor →

April 4, 2021

Until the polls opened on election day, she had no idea she was even on the ballot.

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Origins of the Modern Nanny State →

April 1, 2021

The modern welfare state began not as a utopian vision of altruism and compassion, but as nothing more than a political ploy for one man to keep himself and his party in office.

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Speech is Freedom's First Line of Defense →

March 30, 2021

Restriction of free thought and free speech might be the most dangerous of all subversions.

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The Tyranny of the Short-Run: What I Would Tell the Romans →

March 25, 2021

Do you think the Romans would applaud or boo? Would my short but pointed speech change anyone’s behavior?

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The Disappearing Entrepreneur: The Case of Jim Thompson →

March 25, 2021

What if all entrepreneurs took a walk and disappeared?

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Lenin's NEP: When the Soviets Admitted Socialism Didn't Work →

March 22, 2021

Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to simply avoid the socialist trap in the first place?

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Neta Snook and Amelia Earhart →

March 19, 2021

While Amelia Earhart certainly deserves to be remembered for her accomplishments, so does Neta Snook.

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Your Friendly Government is Debauching the Currency

March 18, 2021

Ultimately, the laws of economics cannot be repealed by any mortal, not even presumptuous politicians and planners in government.

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Luck or Miracle? Samoset and the Pilgrims →

March 16, 2021

The Plymouth colonists met what were perhaps the only two English-speaking Indians on the eastern seaboard.

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Mario Vargas Llosa at 85

March 11, 2021

Peru missed an opportunity for greatness when its voters narrowly failed to elect Mario Vargas Llosa their President in 1990.

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The Knives of the Cancel Culture are Out to Get Adam Smith →

March 9, 2021

Don’t let presentism sully a great man!

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They’ll probably learn more Marxism here than in Beijing.

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Updated with each arrest.

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Recent Quotes

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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
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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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“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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The most important personal property of the Assiniboine was their horses. They were owned individually, not collectively as “common property.”

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No Man Got to Be Common
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No Man Got to Be Common
Sep 14, 2025

This American original brings a smile to my face just thinking about him—because of his accomplishments, his American-ness, his talent, and his Yogi Berra-like sense of humor.

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The Four Great Inventions of China
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The Four Great Inventions of China
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Did these inventions and their subsequent global influence come our way because of wise and generous government? Evidence in the affirmative is, at best, scant.

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