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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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Minnesotans Escape to Somalia
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Minnesotans Escape to Somalia
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Fleeing Minneapolis for Mogadishu.

Jan 26, 2026
The End of the Climate Cult
Dec 4, 2025
The End of the Climate Cult
Dec 4, 2025

The climatastrophe has been a terrible mistake. It diverted attention from real environmental problems, cost a fortune, impoverished consumers, perpetuated poverty, frightened young people into infertility, wasted years of our time, undermined democracy and corrupted science. Time to bury the parrot — Matt Ridley.


Dec 4, 2025

Recent Quotes

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Murphy on America
Feb 11, 2025
Murphy on America
Feb 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.

Feb 11, 2025
Mill on Freedom
Feb 1, 2025
Mill on Freedom
Feb 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.”

Feb 1, 2025
Best-Selling Japanese Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa on Do-Gooders
Mar 20, 2023
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.

Mar 20, 2023

Recent Blogs

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The Story Told by Poland and Venezuela
Mar 14, 2026
The Story Told by Poland and Venezuela
Mar 14, 2026

Only socialists can look at Poland and Venezuela and arrive at the wrong conclusion. For everybody else, which system works and which does not is as certain as where the sun rises and where it sets. Spanish version: https://tinyurl.com/yt44u7px.

Mar 14, 2026
Native Americans and the Revolution
Mar 12, 2026
Native Americans and the Revolution
Mar 12, 2026

Most Native Americans were not bystanders as patriots fought British soldiers and Hessian mercenaries.

Mar 12, 2026
The Life of Frederic Bastiat, a Real Hero for Liberty
Mar 1, 2026
The Life of Frederic Bastiat, a Real Hero for Liberty
Mar 1, 2026

To his last breath, he mustered great eloquence to assault the arrogance of socialism and to defend the virtues of liberty. Article also appears here: https://fee.org/articles/the-life-of-frederic-bastiat/.

Mar 1, 2026