Historians generally posit that the Roman welfare state appeared in the last century of the old Republic, beginning with grain subsidies in 123 B.C. But the racket is even older than that, by at least 300 years. Photo credit: Douglas Rissing via iStock.

A new, free eBook from FEE. On Chinese history from a liberty perspective by Lawrence W. Reed and Katrina Gulliver.

The U.S. never threatened or bullied Denmark before it peacefully purchased the Danish West Indies more than a century ago.

Arrested and incarcerated twice by the British for espionage, this Polish immigrant gave all he had to the American cause.

On the 250th anniversary of the appearance of Common Sense, I decided to give it a long overdue re-examination. I wanted to see if it would “electrify” me as it did so many people so long ago. It did.

January 8 is a very important day in the illustrious life of Australia’s preeminent champion of freedom and free markets.

He was a man of integrity whose political and economic positions often flowed naturally from that very fact.