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Week of October 14, 2019
“[I stand] for a great cause, the particular essence of which rested on freedom and goodwill—freedom for the fullest possible development of private initiative and industry, as opposed to a system that would give the State control; freedom of career for the development of the individual as opposed to a system which would make for a rigid uniformity in all persons.” -Katharine Atholl, early 20th century Scottish conservative

The Counterintuitive Truth about Earth's Resources | Marian L. Tupy

The world's resources are finite in the same way that the number of piano keys is finite. The instrument has only 88 notes, but those can be played in an infinite variety of ways. The same applies to our planet.

Income Mobility Data Show America Still Very Much the Land of Opportunity | Daniel J. Mitchell

I generally don't write much about the distribution of income ( most recent examplefrom 2017), largely because that feeds into the false notion that the economy is a fixed pie and that politicians should have the power to re-slice it if they think incomes aren't sufficiently equal.

Week of October 7, 2019
"The socialist/communist mindset touted by the left perceives highly productive workers as unfair. Under the guise of equality, but fueled instead by envy and coveting, this zero-sum-game mindset believes some have less because of those that have more." - John Henschen
Week of September 30, 2019
"Even when the government is elected democratically and acts responsibly, there is still a need to limit the power of society and government; democracy doesn’t equate to self-governance, but governance over every individual by the majority"  - John Stuart Mill

Don't Blame California's Poop Crisis on Capitalism | Greg Morin

I recently had the opportunity to visit San Francisco for the first time. Coastal towns tend to be a bit more interesting in terms of cuisine (seafood being one of the more varied palate options) and architecture (steep hill structures are ever a testament to human ingenuity), and San Francisco scores high in both categories.

Competition Should Be Neither Restricted Nor Mandated | Connie Lin

Imagine two different track races. In the first race, there are 100 competitors who are all Olympic athletes. In the second race, there are 100 competitors, but all of them are obese yet were eligible to enter because of connections with the coach. Which race has more competition?

Competition Should Be Neither Restricted Nor Mandated | Connie Lin

Imagine two different track races. In the first race, there are 100 competitors who are all Olympic athletes. In the second race, there are 100 competitors, but all of them are obese yet were eligible to enter because of connections with the coach. Which race has more competition?

Week of September 23, 2019
“(S)ocialists don’t like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose socialism.” - Margaret Thatcher, Former Prime Minister of Great Britain
Week of September 16, 2019
"I do not believe that the personal, free, individual character of education can be preserved when you have a federal department laying down standards of education which become more or less mandatory to the whole country.…" -J. Gresham Machen
Week of September 9, 2019
"A public education that is not faced by such competition of private schools is one of the deadliest enemies to liberty that has ever been devised.…" - J. Gresham Machen
Week of September 2, 2019
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” -HL Mencken
Week of August 26, 2019
"I’ve never seen a country develop itself through aid or credit. Countries that have developed—in Europe, America, Japan, Asian countries like Taiwan, Korea and Singapore—have all believed in free markets. There is no mystery there."- Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade (2002)
"Successful geniuses of capital and enterprise ... are viewed with disdain by many in our midst. These critics are the envious, the demagogues, the class warriors, the power lusters, the people who are more eager to steal and redistribute what others create than to bake a bigger pie." - Lawrence Reed, Author & president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE.org)
Week of August 19, 2019
“Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man.” -Adam Smith, 18th century economist & Enlightenment philosopher
"Successful geniuses of capital and enterprise like George Eastman are viewed with disdain by many in our midst. These critics are the envious, the demagogues, the class warriors, the power lusters, the people who are more eager to steal and redistribute what others create than to bake a bigger pie." - Lawrence Reed

Venezuela's Health Care System Is in Shambles, but Markets Are Already Responding | Byron Carson

Venezuelan health care has flatlined and is almost non-existent under a government that continues to centrally plan its economic affairs. Approximately 45 percent of hospitals reported robberies and shootings. Fortunately, some Venezuelans are finding alternative methods for acquiring their desired goods and services.

Week of August 12, 2019
“The philosophies of perpetual grievance that dominate campus discourse insist that we must look at our cultural heritage as the sum total of its faults, reducing every moment of our history to a Hegelian relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed.” - Nate Hochman
“The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance” -Barry Goldwater, 1964 Republican Presidential nominee
“The Left segregates us into (oppressed vs oppressor) groups and turned us against one another … then the government is supposed to impose equality and justice on us. This is what Leftism means: more government, more top-down (control), less individuality, less community. Leftism is a form of slavery.”
Week of August 5, 2019
"Multiculturalism and Political Correctness are different sides of the same coin. Multiculturalism is the side where we look for the victims. Political Correctness is the side where we find the victimizers.” -Peter Thiel, American Entrepreneur
“Conservativism [the right] wants small government, so that individual liberty can flourish. The left wants the resources of the individual and industry in the service of a centralized state.” – Dinesh D’Sousa, author and film maker
Week of July 29, 2019
“The moral issue with the state is that it involves using man as a means for the ends of others instead of regarding each man as an end in himself.” - 18th Century Philosopher Emmanuel Kant

School Bans Designer Coats in Order to "Poverty Proof" Campus | Brittany Hunter

Winter is coming, and colder temperatures mean that our coats and scarves have been pulled from their summer resting places and put to good use once more. But if you're a parent in the United Kingdom, you might want to think twice before you send your kids off to school in their favorite winter coats.

My Campaign to Raise the Voting Age Got Me Shadowbanned on Twitter | J.K. Baltzersen

Are social justice warriors at Twitter afraid of my movement to raise the voting age? I debuted as a FEE writer on the first Sunday of March-expressing the contrarian position that the voting age should be raised. I am not alone in my desire to go in that direction.

Week of July 22, 2019
"(It's not) government’s function to make war on people over their personal, private, and peaceful choices. As long as we do no harm to others, each of us possesses an inherent, natural right to our own lives and property—and that includes our bodies." - Lawrence W Reed