Lawrence W. Reed

What Caused Japan’s Post-War Economic Miracle?

For a century after his death in 1856, statues of the philosopher and economist Kinjiro Ninomiya adorned public places, especially…

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The Marquis de Lafayette: Remembering France’s Greatest Champion of Liberty, a ‘Hero of Two Worlds’

On this date in 1824—August 15—a great man arrived in New York at the start of a “Grand Tour” of…

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The Night of the Murdered Poets: Remembering One of Stalin’s Forgotten Killing Sprees

Power kills. Absolute power kills too many to count. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin spoke with personal authority on the subject…

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The Surprising Act of Contrition That Made Han Wudi Arguably China’s Greatest Emperor—Despite His Flaws

In the middle of the 2nd Century B.C., as the Roman Republic began its century-long slide into the dictatorship of…

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How Government ‘Helped Advance’ One of Greatest Inventions of the 19th Century: The Telegraph

No mortal being knows tomorrow as well as he knows yesterday, but that doesn’t stop very many from predicting the…

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Hannah Arendt’s Chilling Thesis on Evil

Nine months after the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann died at the end of a noose in Israel, a controversial…

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The Two Monsters of the French Revolution Who Were Consumed by Power—and Lost Their Heads On the Same Day

“Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.” The man who spoke those…

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Yes, Elisjsha Dicken Is a Good Samaritan—and He Deserves a Medal

On Sunday evening—July 17, 2022—at the Greenwood Park Mall in Indiana, a gunman opened fire in a food court. He…

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Henry Flipper Rose From Slavery to Become West Point’s First Black Graduate—and a Staunch Anti-New Dealer

When individuals soar above their circumstances, they catch our attention. When they hold firm to timeless principles despite challenges and…

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Mencius: The Ancient Chinese Philosopher Who Made a Powerful Case for Limited Government

A very long time ago, a Chinese scholar wrote, “The people are the most important element in a nation; the…

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China’s Great Philosophers Would Be Horrified by What Mao and the CCP Created

When the author of The Coming Collapse of China, Gordon Chang, predicted the imminent demise of the Chinese Communist Party’s…

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Dr. Joseph Warren: The Founding Father Who Fought for Liberty at Bunker Hill, and Paid With His Life

In his first Inaugural Address in January 1981, President Ronald Reagan brought to public attention these words of Dr. Joseph…

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Ibn Khaldun: An Arab Scholar 21st Century Politicians Could Learn From

Daniel Hannan, the same Lord Hannan of Kingsclere who served as an elected member of the European Parliament from 1999…

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When Thoughts Turn to Gold

John Maynard Keynes, the architect of a school of economic thought regarded by many as just a notch above quackery, …

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How the United States Conquered Inflation Following the Civil War

According to the most recent polling data, the American public’s approval of Congress stands at a dismal 21 percent. Almost…

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