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School Choice -- An Interview with Corey DeAngelis →

March 5, 2019

Madame C. J. Walker, America’s first black millionairess, is the subject of the first segment of the March 5, 2019 edition of THE REED HOUR, followed by an interview with Corey DeAngelis of the Cato Institute on education reform.

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Trade Protectionism -- An Interview with Donald Boudreaux →

February 19, 2019

The great abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass is the subject of the first segment of the February 19, 2019 edition of THE REED HOUR, followed by an interview with George Mason University and Cafe Hayek economist Don Boudreaux on tariffs.

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Crazy California Laws -- An Interview with Carey Wedler →

February 12, 2019

Grover Cleveland, America’s 22nd and 24th President (and one of its best) is the subject of the first segment of the February 12, 2019 edition of THE REED HOUR, followed by an interview about crazy California laws with Carey Wedler of Anti-Media.com.

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Venezuela and the Miseries of Socialism -- An Interview with Jorge Jraissati →

February 5, 2019

World War II Italian resistance hero Pino Lella is the subject of the first segment of the February 5, 2019 edition of THE REED HOUR, followed by an interview with Venezuelan Jorge Jraissati about socialism’s horrific toll on his homeland.

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January 2019 Podcasts of THE REED HOUR →

February 1, 2019

Guests and topics: GEORGE HARBISON of FundFreedom.org on diverting donor dollars from left-wing schools; KIRSTEN TYNAN of the Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA.org) on jury nullification; JIM AGRESTI of Just Facts (JustFacts.com) on the national debt; ISAAC MOREHOUSE of Praxis (DiscoverPraxis.com) on a debt-free alternative to traditional college; and JOE LEHMAN of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy (Mackinac.org) on right-to-work.

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December 2018 Podcasts of THE REED HOUR →

December 26, 2018

Topics covered by guests in these first four episodes of The Reed Hour include American business history, education, Chicago’s PlayStation tax and Leonard Read’s classic essay, “I, Pencil.” Guests were Burton Folsom, T.K. Coleman, Richard Lorenc, Jason Riddle, Kerry McDonald and Brittany Hunter.

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

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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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“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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“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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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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