• Best of Web
  • Home
  • Classics
  • Blog
  • Radio
  • Heroes
  • Books
  • Quotes
  • Talks
  • News
  • About
Menu

Lawrence W. Reed

  • Best of Web
  • Home
  • Classics
  • Blog
  • Radio
  • Heroes
  • Books
  • Quotes
  • Talks
  • News
  • About

The Man Who Inspired Black History Month →

February 21, 2022

Woodson did not promote black history to stoke racial division. He wanted to fill a void by focusing on a topic long ignored in American education. He did not believe in segregating history by race, but rather, he dreamed of seamlessly incorporating the relevant history of all peoples into a unified discipline.

Read More

The Adam Smith of the North →

February 19, 2022

True to form as a classical liberal, Chydenius championed liberty of the press, free trade, equal rights before the law without regard to race or income, abolition of special privileges from government, freedoms of speech and religion, as well as transparency in public entities.

Read More

The Jesse Owens They Don't Teach You About in History Class →

February 18, 2022

Jesse Owens left the ideological plantation early in life and never went back. He always thought for himself. Freedom to him never meant slavish adherence to whatever white liberals or race hustlers of any color told him he should think because he was black.

Read More

Free People are NOT Equal →

February 17, 2022

"Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom" -- philosopher Eric Hoffer.”

Read More

For the Love of Critters →

February 15, 2022

A world without animals—even the ones you wouldn’t want to have dinner with—is just unthinkable.

Read More

No Free Lunch →

February 14, 2022

David L. Bahnsen's 'There’s No Free Lunch' contains the wisdom of Hayek, von Mises, Sowell, Hazlitt, Friedman, Gilder, Bastiat, Acton, and more.

Read More

Gordon Tullock's Centennial →

February 13, 2022

If you think that people act to improve themselves in the private sector, but they take their self-interest Derby off and put their altruism Stetson on when they enter government, you’ve been drinking some nasty Kool-Aid.

Read More

Daniel Lahoud, an Austrian economist in Venezuela

February 10, 2022

Daniel Lahoud (born 1959) is a fascinating man—an advocate for free market ideas in a country whose government has practiced socialism for as long as most of Daniel’s fellow Venezuelans can remember.

Read More

A Gorgeous Micro-State That's Also Free! →

February 9, 2022

A government composed of neighbors you know may be naturally more accountable than distant bureaucrats and politicians you don’t know.

Read More

The Higher Education Scandal →

February 6, 2022

Do your teenagers come home from school echoing the divisive nonsense of Critical Race Theory, feeling terrible about America, hating the system of free enterprise that built the country? Chances are their teachers caught the virus from the radicals in university departments of education.

Read More

Economics Explored with Gene Tunny →

February 5, 2022

In this January 27, 2022 "Economics Explored" interview from podcaster Gene Tunny, economist from Brisbane and former Australian Treasury official, I discussed price controls and other current topics. 45 min.

Read More

America's First Paper Fiat Money →

February 3, 2022

Why did Massachusetts embark upon a short-lived experiment in unbacked paper money in 1690?

Read More

Ukraine Will Fight if Putin Invades

January 25, 2022

Marauding tyrants deserve a bloody nose at the very least.

Read More

More Cars Than People →

January 23, 2022

Sign me up to be the next U.S. ambassador to this place, please. I’ll do it for free.

Read More

Every Country Needs a Museum Like This One →

January 20, 2022

No one in the world should be ignorant of the deadliest ideology in mankind’s history.

Read More

Lessons from Railroad History →

January 19, 2022

The story of the five transcontinental railroads built by 1900 often overlooks some remarkable lessons about private initiative and government subsidies.

Read More

Separation of Bank and State: The Bank of St. George →

January 18, 2022

For centuries, the extraordinary influence and prosperity of the tiny Republic of Genoa stemmed not from a political leader but from a well-run private bank and the limitations on the state that it helped to maintain.

Read More

Spending Time with Dr. King →

January 17, 2022

Dr. King noted that capitalism (the system of private property, entrepreneurship, and free markets) made it possible for America “to do wonders” and “become the richest nation in the world.” He called it “the greatest system of production that history has ever known.”

Read More

Science is Affirming Creation, Not Accident →

January 13, 2022

Bottom line: The Sphinx was no accident, and neither are you. The evidence for a Creator is all around us. It’s been there since Creation.

Read More

Remembering Margaret Thatcher →

December 30, 2021

Earlier this month (December 2021), voters in Chile elected a socialist as the country’s new President. It’s only a matter of time before Chile will need a Thatcher to fix all the problems Chileans are soon to experience.

Read More
← Newer Posts Older Posts →

Recent “Best of Web”

Featured
New York May Get Government-Owned Grocery Stores
Jul 8, 2025
New York May Get Government-Owned Grocery Stores
Jul 8, 2025

“Mamdani’s plan to carve a substantial portion out of NYC’s food market for ‘public’ grocers, with no way of gauging their effectiveness, is a foolhardy attempt to coax voters into supporting socialism, rather than a realistic effort to help New Yorkers,” writes Connor Vasile.

Jul 8, 2025
Thanks To Public School Funding Cuts, This Five-Year-Old Student Doesn't Know All The Variant Sexual Lusts Adults Can Have
May 20, 2025
Thanks To Public School Funding Cuts, This Five-Year-Old Student Doesn't Know All The Variant Sexual Lusts Adults Can Have
May 20, 2025

Young Logan Traylor was nearing the end of his kindergarten experience and, despite the public education system's best efforts, was discovered to have absolutely no knowledge about the shocking fetishes and perverted interests grown-ups engage in — Babylon Bee.

May 20, 2025
Newsom Distances Himself from Newsom
May 15, 2025
Newsom Distances Himself from Newsom
May 15, 2025

Look up “political scumbag” in the dictionary and you’ll see Newsom’s picture.

May 15, 2025

Recent Quotes

Featured
Murphy on America
Feb 11, 2025
Murphy on America
Feb 11, 2025

“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.

Feb 11, 2025
Mill on Freedom
Feb 1, 2025
Mill on Freedom
Feb 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.”

Feb 1, 2025
Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
Mar 20, 2023
Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
Mar 20, 2023

“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.

Mar 20, 2023

Recent Blogs

Featured
Tidbits on Taft
Jul 24, 2025
Tidbits on Taft
Jul 24, 2025

A lackluster one-termer, it’s hard to claim he made much of a lasting difference, but here’s some trivia anyway.

Jul 24, 2025
Obituary for a Late and Unlamented Tax
Jul 24, 2025
Obituary for a Late and Unlamented Tax
Jul 24, 2025

Let’s celebrate July 24 as the day that Parliament gave back to the people the light and air it should never have taken in the first place. I believe God wants it that way.

Jul 24, 2025
Silver Bullion TV's Patrick Vierra Interviews Me on an Ancient Chinese Tyrant
Jul 22, 2025
Silver Bullion TV's Patrick Vierra Interviews Me on an Ancient Chinese Tyrant
Jul 22, 2025

That’s a live raccoon on my shoulder in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2017. It has nothing to do with the subject of this interview. but hopefully it will get you to watch it—the interview, that is.

Jul 22, 2025