Freedom works. It's a lesson that needs to be told, re-told, and told again. (Image: 1946 Japanese banknote.)

Americans can be thankful that the cynical effort to corrupt the Court in 1937 was defeated by principled legislators like Montana’s Burton K. Wheeler. We should hope that any similar schemes in the future will meet the same fate.

Individual freedom is precious and rare. It is constantly threatened by concentrated power, ignorance, collectivism, contempt for rights and property, and other evils. Securing and keeping freedom is a continuous, historic struggle.

Exploring freedom as a concept, with Jan Kuban of Polsko-Amerykańska Fundacja Edukacji i Rozwoju Ekonomicznego - PAFERE (Polish-American Foundation for Education and Research in Economics).

May his Grand Tour for Liberty Go On!

Everybody wants the world to be a better place. We often feel helpless, assuming that what happens is outside of our ability to make a difference. I don’t buy that defeatist attitude.

As we note this awful moment in history, let us remember that such awful moments are too numerous to ever count, as are their victims.

After more than five decades on the throne, Emperor Han Wudi publicly apologized to all of China for his rampant spending and reckless wars.

Much of the telegraph’s success can be attributed to the fact that government officials failed to recognize its potential, paving the way for entrepreneurs.

Government ought to be small enough that you have to go look for it, rather than it always looking for you.

His more unsavory side included close ties to the KKK and support for a federal Department of Education, half a century before we were cursed with one when President Jimmy Carter created it.

If Evil comes calling, do not expect it to be stupid enough to advertise itself as such. It’s far more likely that it will look like your favorite uncle or your sweet grandmother. It just might cloak itself in grandiloquent platitudes like “equality,” “social justice,” and the “common good.”

How will we know if the evil that power promotes is lurking in our midst? What will it say beneath its mask? I’ll venture this: It will say things like “Pack the Court!” It will seek to silence dissenting opinions. To sow chaos and confusion, it will redefine nature itself, or assault any longstanding custom or principle that stands in its way. It will lure us with false promises.

Keep this list in a prominent place as a reminder to do what you can on freedom’s behalf every single day.

We cannot restore civil society if we have no confidence in ourselves and think that government has a monopoly on compassion. We’ll never get there if we tax away nearly half of people’s earnings and then, like children who never learned their arithmetic, complain that people can’t afford to meet certain needs.

A society without entrepreneurs is a society of stagnation and decline, of monotony and impoverishment, of bureaucrats and paperwork.

A Good Samaritan takes charge of a bad situation, improves it as best he can, and prevents further harm. That is exactly what Elisjsha Dicken did in Greenwood. This article is also available at The Stream via https://stream.org/yes-elisjsha-dicken-is-a-good-samaritan-and-he-deserves-a-medal/.

He knew America didn’t invent slavery. He understood that while some Americans enslaved his parents, other Americans helped free them.

The Abuse of Money, Part 2. Progressives criticize entrepreneurship and free markets as “all about money.” They pretend to be representatives of a higher calling which, it turns out, is even more about money than what they oppose. Part 1 of this essay is here: https://informeorwell.com/opinion/the-abuse-of-money-part-1/.

More than two millennia ago, Chinese scholars identified freedom and limited government as elements of virtue. They knew that huge, overbearing government was an enemy of virtue itself.