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The Courage of Ukraine →

March 2, 2022

If you can say someday that when liberty was challenged, you rose to defend it and did not run for cover, your children and grandchildren will thank you. They will remember you as heroes for a most noble cause. I STAND WITH UKRAINE!

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Two Icons of the West: Russell and Rogers →

March 1, 2022

Oklahoma donated a statue of Will Rogers to the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol Building in 1939. Twenty years later, Montana dispatched one of Charlie Russell for the collection. Icons of the American West, the two men richly deserved the honor of being together again.

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The Famous Astronomer Who Was Also a Great Economist →

February 28, 2022

Sound money requires limitations on its quantity. Debasing the coinage causes prices to rise and good money to disappear from circulation. And the guilty party in the erosion of money’s value is invariably a dishonest government.

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Madam C. J. Walker: A Hand Up, Not a Handout

February 26, 2022

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.

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Do We Have Heroes Like This Today? →

February 24, 2022

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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America's First Paper Fiat Money →

February 3, 2022

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

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Ukraine Will Fight if Putin Invades

January 25, 2022

Marauding tyrants deserve a bloody nose at the very least.

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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.

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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.

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Recent “Best of Web”

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Government Shutdown Exposed the Biggest Lie in Education
Oct 31, 2025
Government Shutdown Exposed the Biggest Lie in Education
Oct 31, 2025

“For decades, teachers unions and the liberal allies they bankroll in D.C. have told the American people that without the federal bureaucracy, education would crumble,” writes Ryan Walters.

Oct 31, 2025
Millions Gather to Express Total Ignorance
Oct 18, 2025
Millions Gather to Express Total Ignorance
Oct 18, 2025

“We're going to join our voices together and let the message ring loud and clear that we are uneducated rubes in desperate need of a middle-school social studies class,” said one man. Problem is, they DID have middle-school social studies, at great expense to the taxpayer, and still turned out to be rubes. Maybe there’s a connection??

Oct 18, 2025
Argentina's Economy Didn't Collapse; It Roared Back to Life
Sep 25, 2025
Argentina's Economy Didn't Collapse; It Roared Back to Life
Sep 25, 2025

Writes Dionysis Partsinevelos, “Experts warned that electing a chainsaw-wielding libertarian outsider as president would push the country over the edge. Instead, the unthinkable happened: Argentina’s economy started working again.”

Sep 25, 2025

Recent Quotes

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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

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Grateful Thanks to the Founding Generation
Dec 3, 2025
Grateful Thanks to the Founding Generation
Dec 3, 2025

I wish I could go back in a time machine to that emotional moment at Fraunces Tavern on December 4, 1783.

Dec 3, 2025
Socialists Blame Capitalism for Everything, Especially When a Disaster is the Fault of Socialism
Dec 3, 2025
Socialists Blame Capitalism for Everything, Especially When a Disaster is the Fault of Socialism
Dec 3, 2025

The idea that politicians are supposed to provide solutions to problems is usually stupid, because politicians are not magicians. They can't do things any better than people who actually create wealth. They don't create wealth, they just redistribute it. We shouldn't think of the state as a very generous uncle who only thinks about us. A very good English translation of an interview with Kristina Votrubova in the publication Postroj. Conducted November 27, 2025.

Dec 3, 2025
Dumb Ideas that Threaten Freedom and Prosperity
Dec 2, 2025
Dumb Ideas that Threaten Freedom and Prosperity
Dec 2, 2025

Don’t ignore the long-run. Government is not Superman. The balance of trade is nonsense. Jesus was no socialist. And more! This is a video recording of my speech for the Conservative Institute of M. R. Stefanik in Bratislava, Slovakia, on November 27, 2025.

Dec 2, 2025