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Reed Tells Kiwanis Club About Uncommon Generation - July 2, 2026 →

July 4, 2026

Speaking to one of the Kiwanis Clubs of Newnan, Georgia on July 2, 2026, I urged the audience to consider the uncommon insights insights and courage of America's founding generation.

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Is Zohran Mamdani's Platform a Christian One? →

October 16, 2025

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

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Sound Money and the Birth of America (audio) →

July 4, 2025

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.

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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://youtu.be/xeV0AL1dLng?si=2fOh1jYpthJbgW9x.

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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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Recent “Best of Web”

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Rob from the Rich 100% and You Still Won’t be Able to Pay the Bills
September 10, 2026
Rob from the Rich 100% and You Still Won’t be Able to Pay the Bills
September 10, 2026

Sell the yachts. Sell the stocks. Sell the businesses. Empty the bank accounts.

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September 10, 2026
Schools Abandoned Teaching Perseverance and Personal Responsibility
September 7, 2026
Schools Abandoned Teaching Perseverance and Personal Responsibility
September 7, 2026

Education should prepare students for reality, not shelter them from it. A damning indictment of the schools.

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September 7, 2026
Suspicions Of Ayatollah's Death Rise After His Name Appears On California Voter Rolls
September 2, 2026
Suspicions Of Ayatollah's Death Rise After His Name Appears On California Voter Rolls
September 2, 2026

U.S. intelligence officials had previously been unable to assess with any level of certainty whether Khamenei was still alive, despite his prolonged absence from public view. Those uncertainties quickly faded after analysts discovered that he had registered as a Democrat in Los Angeles, Alameda, and Santa Clara counties.

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September 2, 2026

Recent Quotes

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Reed on Socialist Thinking
September 2, 2026
Reed on Socialist Thinking
September 2, 2026

Socialists think there’s no such thing as a bad poor person or a good rich person. Among socialists, it seems there’s no such thing as a thinking person — Lawrence W. Reed.

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September 2, 2026
Murphy on America
February 11, 2025
Murphy on America
February 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.

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

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Recent Blogs

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Britain Should Spurn the Reparations Panhandlers
September 5, 2026
Britain Should Spurn the Reparations Panhandlers
September 5, 2026

I doubt there’s a soul on the planet who never had an ancestor who was victimized by somebody, but that’s no reason to find the victim’s innocent living descendants and make them pay for it.

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September 5, 2026
Poisoned History
September 2, 2026
Poisoned History
September 2, 2026

A country that uses its tax dollars to distort and vilify its own history is likely to embrace stupid ideas and elect a lot of bad people. The Smithsonian, unfortunately, is just the tip of the iceberg.

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September 2, 2026
Three Cheers for Dolly!
September 2, 2026
Three Cheers for Dolly!
September 2, 2026

Just days after she was laid to rest, we learned that somebody didn’t like Dolly.

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September 2, 2026