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Educating for Freedom →

March 26, 2022

What are some ways to introduce ideas of freedom and free markets to young people who have not heard them before? This is the topic of this short video interview I did at the initiative of Jan Kuban of the Polish-American Foundation for Education and Research in Economics (PAFERE) in Warsaw. — March 2022.

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Better to Shun the Bait →

March 24, 2022

Do the right thing now or you will inevitably regret your failure later. How many times does this have to be stated before its wisdom sinks in?

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Warren Harding's Reputation Deserves a Renovation →

March 23, 2022

If you can’t find anything good to say about Warren Harding, you haven’t looked very far. You can listen to many of Harding’s speeches here: https://tinyurl.com/2hf2u8xu

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Life Without Liberty is Unthinkable - Part 2

March 17, 2022

We need regular reminders of exactly why liberty is important, precious, indispensable, and priceless.


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Putin and Krylenko: Two Evil Peas in the Same Pod

March 10, 2022

A kind of justice finally claimed Nikolai Krylenko and, in time, it claimed the regime that produced him too. Civilized people will not be disappointed if something similar befalls Vladimir Putin. Krylenko deserved it, and so will Putin.

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The Tiny Country that Almost Bought Alaska Before America Did →

March 9, 2022

A very wise observation of the 18th Century French political philosopher Montesquieu sums all this up in a single sentence: “Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.” That ought to be the first lesson taught to economics students everywhere.

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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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