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It Wasn't Government That Fixed Your Clock →

August 1, 2002

What time is it? Thanks not to pretentious central planners but to creative entrepreneurs, no matter where you live, there’s been a uniform answer to that question for about a century.

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Don't Expect Much from Politics →

December 1, 2001

It’s characterized by no-speak, doublespeak, and stupidspeak—the use of one’s tongue, lips, and other speech-making body parts to sway minds without ever educating them, and deceiving them if necessary. 

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Vouchers, tax credits and school choice →

July 2, 2001

The empowerment and transformation of parents into active agents is the foundation of educational choice theory.  It's a fact of life that as human beings, we take a greater interest in those things over which we have some power of discretion than in those things we feel relatively helpless to affect.

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The Economic War Between the States →

August 15, 1996

The case against selective, discriminatory favors, often called “business incentives.” The best economic development approach is “a fair field and no favors.” From the Cato Institute’s REGULATION magazine, 1997.

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Hyperinflation Threatens Brazil (1988) →

January 1, 1988

One of the most enduring lessons of economic experience is that drowning a nation in paper money always wrecks the currency and the economy along with it.

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Witch-Hunting for Robber Barons: The Standard Oil Story →

March 1, 1980

The entrepreneur that so-called “progressives” love to hate.

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The Silver Panic of 1893 →

June 1, 1978

How government price maintenance of silver under bimetallism led to the panic of 1893.

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Recent “Best of Web”

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Berenson Wins Big and the Left-Wing Legacy Media Doesn't Tell You
May 14, 2026
Berenson Wins Big and the Left-Wing Legacy Media Doesn't Tell You
May 14, 2026

The journalist just won a huge victory for free speech. Why hasn’t the mainstream media noticed?

May 14, 2026
The Fading of a Hoax
May 10, 2026
The Fading of a Hoax
May 10, 2026

Now, finally, after 50 years of hysteria, The New York Times, the very Grey Lady with her hair on fire over climate change this whole time, tells us it's not such a big deal after all? — David Marcus.

May 10, 2026
Capitalists Have Already Solved the Grocery Store Problem
April 18, 2026
Capitalists Have Already Solved the Grocery Store Problem
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Comrade Morondami Wants to Play Grocery Store.

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Recent Quotes

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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.

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

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America's Private "Pirates"
June 9, 2026
America's Private "Pirates"
June 9, 2026

When it came to the conduct of America’s war against the world’s pre-eminent military power, Congress got one big thing right. It involved the navy and what today we would call privatization.

June 9, 2026
VOICES OF LIBERTY with SEAN THEMEA
June 9, 2026
VOICES OF LIBERTY with SEAN THEMEA
June 9, 2026

A new discussion with Sean Themea of Young Americans for Liberty's "Voices of Liberty" podcast, posted June 9, 2026. Lots of great subjects from history to economics to philosophy in this one!

June 9, 2026
Inconvenient Truths About Slavery
May 29, 2026
Inconvenient Truths About Slavery
May 29, 2026

What Al Sharpton won’t tell you is that the Framers, armed with the promise expressed in the Declaration of Independence, did as much or more to put human bondage on the road to extinction than any other generation anywhere. Spanish version: https://tinyurl.com/5dvv9jx6.

May 29, 2026