Katharine Atholl had smelled danger and said so, years before the elite of her own political party mustered similar courage. How different might history have been if there were more people like her?

“Reed has hit upon a hugely important theme, one desperately needed in our times.”

If we lack heroes in our political life, perhaps it’s because we no longer celebrate the values that make a hero.

From Left to Right: Pino Lella, Luigi Manzione, Lawrence Reed—northern Italy, April 2018. Pino, who turned 92 in June 2018, is the subject of the terrific bestseller by Mark Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky. His son Michael tells the story here.

Indeed, the beauty of Reed’s Real Heroes is that it aims to disrupt the “callous complacency” under which so many move through the day-to-day, and under the burden of which so many people are prevented from translating the ideal of heroism into action — Jacob Bruggeman.

History’s story may be an alluring shadow standing tall before us, but the light of the present shines brightly on everything we do — Joey Clark.

As Daniel Oliver explains, Hill deserves to be remembered as a builder, a risk-taker, and an innovator. He was a “1 percenter” of his day who immeasurably improved the lives of others not by giving speeches but by creating wealth.

He gave away more of his own money than most likely any of his redistributionist political opponents ever gave of themselves.

To Augustine, government was at best a necessary evil that could only grow more evil the bigger it becomes.

Cobden would deserve a place of high honor in the history of liberty for his work on trade alone, but he had much to say about other issues, too.

Melville Weston Fuller never succumbed to the temptations of power and ego, nor did he discover vast new constitutional duties for the Washington establishment to inflict on the people.

When Black History Month rolls around each February, let’s remember — and celebrate — not only the speech makers, but the wealth creators, too.

Later, after one of his many tongue-in-cheek political campaigns, Patric was able to declare, “I was the only candidate who could prove he was sane; the others could only claim it.”

It’s impossible to make sense out of such a senseless tragedy. I do know this, however: for Haing Ngor, rediscovering his freedom after experiencing hell on earth wasn’t enough.

To the Constitution, she demanded the addition of, in her words, “a bill of rights to guard against the dangerous encroachments of power.”

The Father of Economics placed much more faith in people and markets than in kings and edicts. 

What Halvorsen and his colleagues did—helping others from the goodness of their hearts—is truly a beautiful thing. Those heroes of the Berlin airlift saved a city of more than two million.

This was a young woman determined to pursue her passion for scientific truth no matter what the regime or consensus imposed.

The philosophy of liberty appeals to me because it says to all people, regardless of race, religion, place of birth, or sex, “If you want to dream, create, build, own, grow, or improve, go for it!”

“It is not enough for a Christian to condemn evil, cowardice, lies, and use of force, hatred, and oppression,” he once declared. “He must at all times be a witness to and defender of justice, goodness, truth, freedom, and love. He must never tire of claiming these values as a right both for himself and others.”