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Paul Kengor Writes About Andrew Mellon and My Speech in Pittsburgh →

June 8, 2023

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, June 8, 2023. To watch my speech in Pittsburgh on June 6, click on this link: https://livestream.com/accounts/13431056/events/7040172/videos/236470961.

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Ireland's Economy Grew 5 Times Faster than U.S. in 2022 →

March 17, 2023

It's freedom, not the “luck of the Irish,” that explains Ireland’s remarkable economic success.

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Speech to Capitol Hill Interns on "Was Jesus a Socialist?" →

July 13, 2022

For Senator Rand Paul and The Fund for American Studies — July 13, 2022.

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Mackinac Center President Emeritus to Receive Poland's Highest Honor →

June 8, 2022

Mackinac Center President Joe Lehman: "His stories and experiences have prompted real change and continue to inspire the next generation of freedom fighters. There are few who have done more to assist the fight for liberty, not only in Poland, but around the globe. I am proud to call him my friend and colleague.”

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Poland to Bestow Highest Honor on Reed →

June 2, 2022

Reed will receive the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, which is the highest honor bestowed by Poland upon a foreigner. US President Ronald Reagan and British intellectual Sir Roger Scruton are among its past recipients.

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A 2021 Video Appeal for FEE →

December 14, 2021

A short video appeal on the occasion of FEE’s 75th anniversary and the close of 2021.

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My Take on the Biden and EU "Stimulus" Plans for the Polish Economic Forum - May 2021 →

May 17, 2021

The centralized assumption of member debts by the EU effectively rewards those countries with bad fiscal policies and penalizes those countries with better fiscal policies. This produces a moral hazard, meaning an incentive to do more of the very behavior that caused the problem in the first place.

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Liberty and Economics in Basic Terms →

April 9, 2021

Paul Krugman is less an economist than he is a propagandist. That and much more in this wide-ranging April 8, 2021 interview—in both video and audio only.

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Mandy Connell and I Talk Socialism on KOA-Denver →

March 25, 2021

My old friend Mandy Connell and I rip socialism on her show on KOA-Denver, 24 March 2021.

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Peter Wood & Lawrence Reed Discuss Pilgrim Landing at Plymouth →

December 28, 2020

Former Alaska Lt. Governor Loren Leman interviews anthropologist and NAS president Peter Wood and me on the significance of the Pilgrims’ landing at Plymouth in December 1620. Lots of historical detail here!

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A Brief History of Liberty in America →

December 22, 2020

Juventude Libertária de Sergipe (Libertarian Youth of Sergipe) in Brazil conducted this interview with me recently on the subject of the history of liberty in America. Subtitles in Portuguese for my friends in Brazil. Recorded September 2020.

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Gwartney Institute at Ottawa University Interviews Me on "Was Jesus a Socialist?" →

December 21, 2020

November 2020 - A discussion with the Gwartney Institute team on my book, “Was Jesus a Socialist?”

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Election Integrity: A Discussion with Hans Spakovsky and Lawrence Reed →

November 2, 2020

The challenges of holding a free and fair election in the midst of a pandemic, high passions, mass mail-in balloting and ballot harvesting.

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Charles Moscowitz Interviews Me About Jesus and Socialism →

June 9, 2020

A half-hour discussion about my book, Was Jesus a Socialist? - June 9, 2020

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Ashley King Interviews Me About the Humanitarian Thomas Clarkson -- March 2020

March 19, 2020

One of history’s greatest humanitarians was abolitionist Thomas Clarkson, whose under-told story should inspire all friends of liberty.

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Economist Bob Murphy Interviews Me -- March 2020 →

March 19, 2020

Topics discussed range from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet Empire, the importance of character, and the uncommon man.

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An Interview in Mexico City →

September 17, 2019

Topics include the importance of economic education, trade policy, capitalism, and socialism.

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Major Influences in My Life and Career →

July 3, 2019

Some colleagues on the FEE staff asked me to jot down some of the major influences in my life and career, so here they are. Or at least nine of them, anyway!

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THANK YOU, FEE staff, trustees and friends for this amazing video -- 14 June 2019 →

June 20, 2019

Wow, this surprise video left me almost speechless at FEEcon in Atlanta, June 13-15, 2019!

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Thank you, Richard Lorenc, for this thoughtful piece! →

December 5, 2018

“Larry is proud that his legacy at FEE is that of a vibrant and growing organization whose core principles he strengthened greatly and to which he has infused a powerful dimension of personal character” — Richard Lorenc, executive vice-president, FEE.

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Recent “Best of Web”

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Thanks To Public School Funding Cuts, This Five-Year-Old Student Doesn't Know All The Variant Sexual Lusts Adults Can Have
May 20, 2025
Thanks To Public School Funding Cuts, This Five-Year-Old Student Doesn't Know All The Variant Sexual Lusts Adults Can Have
May 20, 2025

Young Logan Traylor was nearing the end of his kindergarten experience and, despite the public education system's best efforts, was discovered to have absolutely no knowledge about the shocking fetishes and perverted interests grown-ups engage in — Babylon Bee.

May 20, 2025
Newsom Distances Himself from Newsom
May 15, 2025
Newsom Distances Himself from Newsom
May 15, 2025

Look up “political scumbag” in the dictionary and you’ll see Newsom’s picture.

May 15, 2025
Does the Bible Teach Blind Obedience to the State?
May 10, 2025
Does the Bible Teach Blind Obedience to the State?
May 10, 2025

The simple answer to the question is No, of course not. And few would argue the point at all. Perhaps then the better question is To what extent does the Bible teach submission to the state? The surprising answer, on closer examination, is not all that much — Jeb Smith.

May 10, 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
Mar 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.

Mar 20, 2023

Recent Blogs

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Leonard Read's classic now in the Telugu Language!
Jun 11, 2025
Leonard Read's classic now in the Telugu Language!
Jun 11, 2025

Photo: With Raghavendar (Ravi) Askani in Atlanta on June 10, 2025, celebrating the translation of “I, Pencil” into Telugu. An estimated 96 million people, mostly in central and southeastern India, speak the language. Leonard Read would be very proud. Ravi is co-founder with Venkatesh Geriti of the Swatantrata Center, publisher of this edition.

Jun 11, 2025
The Chinese FDR
Jun 6, 2025
The Chinese FDR
Jun 6, 2025

FDR’s New Deal of the 1930s was not a carbon copy of Wang Anshi’s New Policies of the 1070s, of course, but they share an activist, centralizing tendency noted by FDR's own Vice President and Agriculture Secretary. Pictured: sketch of Song Dynasty hydraulic grain mill (Wikimedia). Spanish version here: https://informeorwell.com/opinion/las-similitudes-del-new-deal-de-roosevelt-en-1933-y-el-fracasado-programa-economico-chino-de-la-dinastia-song/

Jun 6, 2025
The Origins of Vandalism
Jun 2, 2025
The Origins of Vandalism
Jun 2, 2025

What the barbarians did to Rome, hoodlums on a smaller scale did to Minneapolis, New York, Portland, and Chicago in 2020, but for this significant difference: The ones who assaulted Rome were foreigners.

Jun 2, 2025