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When America Bought Land From Denmark
When America Bought Land From Denmark

The U.S. never threatened or bullied Denmark before it peacefully purchased the Danish West Indies more than a century ago.

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He Gave It All for America
He Gave It All for America

Arrested and incarcerated twice by the British for espionage, this Polish immigrant gave all he had to the American cause.

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Thomas Paine and the American Spirit
Thomas Paine and the American Spirit

On the 250th anniversary of the appearance of Common Sense, I decided to give it a long overdue re-examination. I wanted to see if it would “electrify” me as it did so many people so long ago. It did.

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Happy 90th Birthday to the Man from Perth
Happy 90th Birthday to the Man from Perth

January 8 is a very important day in the illustrious life of Australia’s preeminent champion of freedom and free markets.

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He Could Have Been President
He Could Have Been President

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
The Caracas Conundrum

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

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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About Lawrence W. Reed

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Lawrence W. (“Larry”) Reed became president of FEE in 2008 after serving as chairman of its board of trustees in the 1990s and both writing and speaking for FEE since the late 1970s. Prior to becoming FEE’s president, he served for 21 years as president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. He also taught economics full-time from 1977 to 1984 at Northwood University in Michigan and chaired its department of economics from 1982 to 1984.

A champion for liberty, Reed has authored nearly 2,000 newspaper columns and articles and dozens of articles in magazines and journals in the United States and abroad. He has visited 87 countries.

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