• 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 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!

Read More

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.

Read More

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.

Read More

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.

Read More

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.

Read More

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
← Newer Posts Older Posts →
No results found

Recent “Best of Web”

Featured
Obama Library Disenfrancises Millions of Blacks by Requiring Voter ID
June 22, 2026
Obama Library Disenfrancises Millions of Blacks by Requiring Voter ID
June 22, 2026

Civil rights activists in Chicago have warned that the photo ID requirement at the Obama Library could directly kill thousands of black people — Babylon Bee.

June 22, 2026
Gore's Scam
June 20, 2026
Gore's Scam
June 20, 2026

Referring to the lies in his cartoonish fiction film, Gore says “It may not have been true in any way, but I sure enjoyed it. After all, I am now very, very rich" — Babylon Bee.

June 20, 2026
Democrats Demand Reparations from African American
June 15, 2026
Democrats Demand Reparations from African American
June 15, 2026

Prominent Democratic Party leaders in Washington, D.C., took to the airwaves this week, calling for immediate reparations to be paid to make amends for the repeated success of African American Elon Musk — Babylon Bee.

June 15, 2026

Recent Quotes

Featured
Murphy on America
February 11, 2025
Murphy on America
February 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.

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

February 1, 2025
Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
March 20, 2023
Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
March 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.

March 20, 2023

Recent Blogs

Featured
Real Heroes of the American Revolution: A Lecture at the Mackinac Center, 6/22/26
June 24, 2026
Real Heroes of the American Revolution: A Lecture at the Mackinac Center, 6/22/26
June 24, 2026

Nathan Hale, Haym Salomon, Mercy Warren, Casimir Pulaski, George Whitefield, James Otis, Esther Reed—these are among the great patriots I talk about in this June 22, 2026 lecture in Midland, Michigan.

June 24, 2026
The Central Banker Who Defied Hitler
June 22, 2026
The Central Banker Who Defied Hitler
June 22, 2026

Generally speaking, central banks get excessive credit for the good times and insufficient blame for the bad times. But you could certainly do worse than Hans Luther.

June 22, 2026
Animated Video: "I, Smartphone"
June 18, 2026
Animated Video: "I, Smartphone"
June 18, 2026

Narrated by Naomi Brockwell, this new video tells the story of my recent essay, “I, Smartphone: Far Smarter Than You Ever Imagined.” Print version of the essay: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GP9MG18K

June 18, 2026