Madam C.J. Walker’s story stands out as a remarkable testament to the spirit of the great civil rights anthem of later years, “We Shall Overcome.” She surely did.

When freedom is threatened, it is never saved by cowards. Do not expect safety or salvation from people so morally obtuse that they think following orders is more important than the lives, property, or freedoms of their neighbors.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Marauding tyrants deserve a bloody nose at the very least.

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

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

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

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.

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.”