Mamdani might be the second coming of something, but it ain’t Jesus.

Americans were burned by fiat paper money, a big reason they opted for gold and silver by the time the Constitution was adopted. This is an audio interview and my part begins at 6:40.

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, June 8, 2023. To watch my speech in Pittsburgh on June 6, click on this link: https://youtu.be/xeV0AL1dLng?si=2fOh1jYpthJbgW9x.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!