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The Differences Between Good and Bad Economics →

September 1, 2022

Good economics is more than possible. It is imperative, and achieving it begins with the knowledge of what bad economics is all about.

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Did Jesus Tell Joe Biden to Cancel Student Debt? →

August 30, 2022

If you favor the student debt cancellation plan of Joe Biden, you cannot make a credible case that Jesus made him do it.

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What Caused the Post-War Japanese Economic Miracle? →

August 26, 2022

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

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Montana's Wheeler Helped Prevent FDR's Judicial Mischief →

August 24, 2022

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.

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Treating People Equally Vs Attempting to Make Them Equal →

August 18, 2022

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.

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Freedom as a Concept -- An Interview By Jan Kuban of PAFERE →

August 17, 2022

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).

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Never Forget the Marquis de Lafayette! →

August 15, 2022

May his Grand Tour for Liberty Go On!

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One Way You Can Improve Yourself and the World →

August 12, 2022

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.

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Uncle Joe and the Night of the Murdered Poets →

August 12, 2022

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.

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The Emperor Who Apologized →

August 7, 2022

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

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How Government "Helped Advance" a Great Invention of the 19th Century →

August 5, 2022

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.

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Quoting Myself, Humbly →

August 4, 2022

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

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The Newnan Presidential Candidate →

August 2, 2022

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.

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Hannah Arendt's Chilling Thesis on Evil →

July 31, 2022

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.”

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They Lost Their Heads for Power →

July 28, 2022

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.

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What Did You Do For Freedom Today? →

July 27, 2022

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

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Civil Society: America's Great Heritage →

July 21, 2022

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.

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John Bozeman, Frontier Entrepreneur →

July 19, 2022

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

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Is Elisjsha Dicken a Good Samaritan or a Murderer? →

July 19, 2022

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/.

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Henry Flipper Loved America and Its Constitution →

July 17, 2022

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

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