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Twelve Marvelous Quotes on Bill of Rights Day →

December 15, 2021

“Nowhere in the Bill of Rights are the words ‘unless inconvenient’ to be found."

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Christ, Christmas and Capitalism

December 9, 2021

If you say you want to help the poor and that you favor the poverty-producing failure called socialism, then you’re like the guy who claims to favor medicine but patronizes witch doctors.

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Moral Character, Freedom and Human Flourishing →

December 6, 2021

Jon Hersey of The Objective Standard Institute interviews me on morals, character and heroes.

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George Sutherland: A Model Justice →

December 6, 2021

He warned us, “The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time.”

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"Progressives" Are Hard to Figure Out →

December 2, 2021

Their thought processes are so riddled with inconsistencies, contradictions and dubious notions that the rest of us are often left scratching our heads in disbelief.

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Thankful for Man's Best Friend

November 25, 2021

Maybe dogs are God’s way of telling humankind, “You can do better.”

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What Gibbon Got Wrong →

November 20, 2021

The salutary impact of Christianity on the course of history is routinely sold short, as amply illustrated in Alvin J. Schmidt’s marvelous book, How Christianity Changed the World. I strongly recommend it.

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Eight Films for Freedom Lovers

November 11, 2021

The legendary actor Marlon Brando once said, “Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.” I don’t know if that’s fair or not, but I do know that occasionally, whether on purpose or by accident, even Hollywood gets something right.

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Books: Antidotes to the Poison of Socialism

November 4, 2021

With the recent resurgence of socialist ideology around the world, it’s more important than ever that people understand what it’s all about. It is an insidious poison that has killed tens of millions over the decades.

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The Great Awakening in Education

October 28, 2021

It’s a fact of life that as human beings, we take a greater interest in those things over which we have some power of discretion than in those things we feel relatively helpless to affect. That’s why many people spend more time shopping for the car they want—visiting dealership showrooms and comparing prices and features—than they spend in picking the right schools for their children.

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Textbook Bias

October 21, 2021

Perhaps some economics texts should come with a warning label.

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The Under-Rated Warren Harding →

October 21, 2021

When it came to race and the law, Warren Harding was well ahead of his time.

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The Reeds of Pennsylvania →

October 17, 2021

The story of the largest private fundraising campaign of America’s Revolutionary War.

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The Iron Fist in the Velvet Glove

October 14, 2021

We would do well to remember, as economist Milton Friedman instructed, that “The power to do good is also the power to do harm. Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.”

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Celebrate Christopher Columbus!

October 7, 2021

If your aim is to delegitimize American liberty or even Western Civilization in general, then Columbus must go even if it requires lies to get the job done.

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The Story of an American Entrepreneur: Will Kellogg

September 30, 2021

The next time you eat something with the name “Kellogg” on the box, think of what a great country it must be if a man can mix an idea with a few bucks and turn it into a great enterprise. If the class warriors and their political friends have their way, we’ll someday have to go to museums to learn about such things.

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Heroes: Relief from Today's Nastiness

September 23, 2021

We need to be inspired by the words and deeds of real people whose lives are worth celebrating, whose examples are inherently inspirational.

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Chester Mops the Floor with Joe →

September 20, 2021

Big spenders in Washington exhibit the same pomposity with which the arrogant, swaggering demagogues of ancient Rome demolished first the Roman Republic and then later, the Roman Empire too.

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Freedom Hub Interviews Me on George Orwell →

September 16, 2021

Was George Orwell a Budding Libertarian? Recorded September 15, 2021. Based on this article: https://fee.org/articles/was-george-orwell-a-socialist-or-a-libertarian-its-complicated/.

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Life Without Liberty is Unthinkable, So Think About It

September 16, 2021

Important. Precious. Indispensable. Priceless. Liberty is all these and more. And yet, people frequently vote it away in exchange for a short-term advantage or benefit. (Part 2 of this article is here:

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