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Maybe Blaine County Needs a New Name
Maybe Blaine County Needs a New Name

Millions of veterans have utilized the G.I. Bill and no one ever told them they couldn’t go to colleges run by Baptists, Presbyterians, Catholics, or whatever. The resulting choice and competition has been good for everybody.

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Abolish the Department of Kudzu
Abolish the Department of Kudzu

Only a government agency can get away with a half-century of failure. A private operation with a similar record as the DoE would have filed for bankruptcy long ago.

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The Republic of What?
The Republic of What?

Micro-nations are fascinating, regardless of what other governments may think of them.

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Cleveland & Coolidge: Two Presidents Who Got It Right -- Delivered in Wichita, Kansas, on November 8, 2024
Cleveland & Coolidge: Two Presidents Who Got It Right -- Delivered in Wichita, Kansas, on November 8, 2024

Models of character, these two great men sought to do what was right whether it was politically popular or not.

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Who Was Joe Overton of Overton Window Fame?
Who Was Joe Overton of Overton Window Fame?

While the Overton Window concept is valuable and appealing, the man behind it deserves to be remembered every bit as much.

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Albert Gallatin and the Extraordinary Free Trade Convention of 1831
Albert Gallatin and the Extraordinary Free Trade Convention of 1831

With the outcome of the Free Trade Convention of 1831, Albert Gallatin cemented his record as one of early America’s most eloquent defenders of freedom of commerce.

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Unleashing the Sun, a New, Free eBook from FEE on Japanese history
Unleashing the Sun, a New, Free eBook from FEE on Japanese history

With essays by Stephen Davies, Toshio Murata, Hiroshi Yoshida, Tyler Curtis and me.

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About Lawrence W. Reed

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Lawrence W. (“Larry”) Reed became president of FEE in 2008 after serving as chairman of its board of trustees in the 1990s and both writing and speaking for FEE since the late 1970s. Prior to becoming FEE’s president, he served for 21 years as president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. He also taught economics full-time from 1977 to 1984 at Northwood University in Michigan and chaired its department of economics from 1982 to 1984.

A champion for liberty, Reed has authored nearly 2,000 newspaper columns and articles and dozens of articles in magazines and journals in the United States and abroad. He has visited 87 countries.

 

Books by Lawrence W. Reed

 

Talks by Lawrence W. Reed