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He Could Have Been President

January 5, 2026

He was a man of integrity whose political and economic positions often flowed naturally from that very fact.

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The Caracas Conundrum

January 4, 2026

What happens now runs a huge risk of turning a great moment for freedom into an indefensible quagmire.

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The Most Idiotic Things Ever Uttered by Socialists About the Collectivism They Impose

January 3, 2026

Zohran Mamdani’s “warmth of collectivism” remark may prove to be the most idiotic of the year, but socialists say dumb stuff like that all the time.

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Honest When No One is Looking

December 29, 2025

Does this story tug at your heartstrings? If it does, then you appreciate something the world desperately needs, something that is crucial to a free and moral society—honesty for the sake of it. Photo: Dr. Haing S. Ngor.

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Foreword to "Chasing Value" by Simon Studer

December 21, 2025

From income inequality to jobs to politics to personal independence, Simon Studer shows how value—subjective, personal value, the only kind there is—makes the world go round. Most readers of this book will never see the world the same way again. And that, you will learn, is a very good thing. A wonderful contribution in the Austrian School tradition.

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Books for Winter Evenings

December 19, 2025

Thomas Jefferson once said, “I cannot live without books.” Indeed, he owned about 6,000 of them, which he sold to Congress in 1815.

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A Montana Moment to Remember →

December 17, 2025

A testament to a friendship that hopefully will endure forever.

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The Good Counsel of Mrs. Marx

December 14, 2025

The pigeons in the picture got it right. Marx was a detestable fraud and he should have listened to his mother.

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Americans Who Separated Church and State

December 13, 2025

Matters of belief and conscience should belong exclusively to the individual and his Maker, not legislators and potentates.

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A Hero Americans Must Never Forget

December 11, 2025

He was arrested and interrogated by the highest-ranking officer in the British Army, General William Howe, who got utterly nothing out of him but name, rank and an honest account of his purpose. For their patriotism, his last words remain unsurpassed. Spanish version here: https://informeorwell.com/opinion/un-heroe-que-los-estadounidenses-jamas-deben-olvidar-nathan-hale/.

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The Constitution of Liberty: Hayek's Lessons for Today and Tomorrow →

December 4, 2025

Hayek firmly rejected the modern leftist obsession with “social justice.” Redistribution schemes based on outcome-focused equality ignore the process by which outcomes arise. Inequality, per se, is not a problem. The focus should not be on the outcome, but on the process. Photo: Hayek (left) and Mises (right).

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Grateful Thanks to the Founding Generation

December 3, 2025

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

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Socialists Blame Capitalism for Everything, Especially When a Disaster is the Fault of Socialism →

December 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.

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Dumb Ideas that Threaten Freedom and Prosperity →

December 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.

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The Power of the Free Market →

November 22, 2025

We should be in awe of the endless miracles that come our way from the marketplace of invention, innovation, and exchange. A podcast interview from the Cato Institute’s Libertarianism.org, October 2025.

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Montana's First Non-Indigenous Settlement

November 18, 2025

The St. Mary’s Mission and Museum in Stevensville is well worth your time when you’re in western Montana.

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Dusting Off an Old but Important Story

November 13, 2025

France was on the verge of national bankruptcy when the Revolution began in 1789. A rising chorus of panicked legislators called for printing paper money as a solution, but many people still remembered the ruin their ancestors suffered only 70 years before.

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I (Identify As), Pencil

November 11, 2025

I was born a lawnmower but now I am a pencil. You can’t erase me, but I can erase you. Literally. So don’t offend me.

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From "I, Pencil" to "I, Smartphone" →

November 6, 2025

The late Milton Friedman figures into this October 2025 video interview of me by Libertarianism.org. Topic: From “I, Pencil” to “I, Smartphone.”

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Red Flags or Green Lights?

November 4, 2025

Opposition arises every time new technology emerges. Often it is promoted by those whose livelihoods would be most directly affected. Their short-term, vested interest focus might grant them temporary security, but it does so at the expense of the well-being of everyone else.

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Investors Force Uncle Sam to Confront Debt Addition
August 23, 2026
Investors Force Uncle Sam to Confront Debt Addition
August 23, 2026

Lawmakers marked the $40 trillion milestone by pointing fingers at each other while failing to look in the mirror and acknowledge their own culpability. Thanks to author Ryan Meilstrup for the shout-out in this article.

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The Age of Big Spending Republicans is Here
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Merrill Matthews writes, “Republicans used to be serious about controlling federal spending, but that was before Trump and the age of big-spending Republicans. We may soon find voters and the economy demanding they return to their conservative roots.”

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Making the Pregnant Woman Take the Stairs: The Problem with Minimum-Quality Regulation
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Making the Pregnant Woman Take the Stairs: The Problem with Minimum-Quality Regulation
August 11, 2026

Raymond Niles asks, “Which apartment would you rather live in? One with a larger bedroom or a tiny bedroom, a large living room with a window that lets in natural sunlight, or a dingy room facing an air shaft? A tall skyscraper with an elevator, or a five-story walkup? A building with parking or one with no parking lot?”

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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.

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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.”

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Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
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Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
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“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.

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Recent Blogs

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How Principles, Faith & Courage Forged America
August 29, 2026
How Principles, Faith & Courage Forged America
August 29, 2026

Doug Stuart of the Libertarian Christian Institute interviews me on the key ideas, events, and people of the American Revolution.

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August 29, 2026
Telling the Story of America and Why Its Founding Was So Exceptional
August 28, 2026
Telling the Story of America and Why Its Founding Was So Exceptional
August 28, 2026

An interview (recorded August 21, 2026) on the Jenny Beth Show about Born of Ideas: How Principles, Faith, and Courage Forged America.

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August 28, 2026
Greg Maresca reviews my new book at American Thinker, Real Clear History, and Across Voices
August 24, 2026
Greg Maresca reviews my new book at American Thinker, Real Clear History, and Across Voices
August 24, 2026

Maresca writes, “Reed’s prose is direct and unpretentious writing with the clarity of someone who has spent decades lecturing about economics and history. His tone is heartfelt, patriotic and unapologetically celebratory of America’s founding ideals…In a time when historical memory is often lacking and politicized, Reed offers a refreshing reminder on how America was built on ideas worth knowing, debating and defending.” The book is available now on Amazon.

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August 24, 2026