Why the Separation of Bank and State Is so Important
Most lovers of freedom and free markets champion the separation of the state (politics and politicians) from a lot of...
Lawrence W. Reed
Spending an Hour with Dr. King
If you could travel back in time and spend an hour with ten people of your choosing, who would you...
Ethelmae Humphreys: A Friend and Mom We’ll Never Forget
We at FEE are mourning the December 27, 2021, passing of a gracious and extraordinary lady. She embodied the best...
12 Marvelous Quotes on the Bill of Rights
Americans over the age of 60 will likely remember the hilarious TV game show that ran for 25 years (1965-1980)...
What Gibbon Got Wrong in ‘The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’
In The Devil’s Dictionary, the writer Ambrose Bierce offered this definition of History: “An account mostly false, of events mostly...
Warren Harding’s Historic Speech on Race: How Black and White Americans Responded
No matter which major party won America’s presidential election in 1920, the country was destined for another chief executive from...
Joseph and Esther Reed: Two Reeds I Want to be Related To
Anyone who has ever dabbled in genealogy knows that as you go back into family history, the answers to one...
What ‘Little Women’ Author Louisa May Alcott Learned about Socialism in a 19th Century Utopian Commune
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women was published more than a century and a half ago—in 1868—and all these decades later,...
Was George Orwell a Socialist or a Libertarian? It’s Complicated
When George Orwell’s Animal Farm was first published on August 17 in 1945, World War II in Europe had concluded...
The Humor—and Wisdom—of Will Rogers
On this date in 1935—August 15—a man who made all of America laugh suddenly made the whole country cry. Will...
Didius Julianus: The Roman Emperor Who Bought the Imperial Throne—and Paid With His Life
Does money buy high public office? It’s a contentious political question. The best answer, it seems to me, is this:...
What the Nazis Had in Common With Every Other Collectivist Regime in the 20th Century
Today marks an infamous centennial. One hundred years ago—on July 29, 1921—Adolf Hitler assumed the leadership of the National Socialist...
