by Frederick Douglass | Living
Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them. The subject announced for this evening’s entertainment is not new. Man in one...
by Edwin A Locke | Classic, Education
If you want to lead a successful life, our most urgent advice to you is to reject your professors’ assaults on reason and individualism. An imaginary letter from parents intensely concerned about the fundamental ideas their children, who are about to graduate...
by Richard M. Ebeling | History
A specter continues to haunt the world, the specter of Karl Marx. Two hundred years ago, on May 5, 1818, the father of twentieth century totalitarian communism, the guidebook writer of revolutionary mass-murdering dictatorship, and the inspirer of disastrous socialist...
by Richard M. Ebeling | History
The “untouchable” entitlement programs at the heart of the current debt crisis are the outgrowths of the redistributive programs introduced by or greatly expanded during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson. Fifty years separate us, now, from 1968 and the two momentous...
by Andrew Bernstein | Classic, History, Welfare State
An excerpt from The Capitalist Manifesto : The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire by Andrew Bernstein. To then accuse capitalism of causing the poverty — while in the very act of eradicating it — is to commit both a historical error...
by Richard M. Ebeling | History
When Karl Marx died in March 1883, only about a dozen people attended his funeral at a cemetery in London, England, including family members. Yet, for more than a century after his death – and even until today – there have been few thinkers whose ideas have been as...
