Audiences ask me all the time, “Mr. Reed, what do you think the #1 problem is in the country today?” They expect me to say it’s government spending, or deficits, or crime, or opioids, or taxes, or racism, or the national debt. It is none of those.

Until the polls opened on election day, she had no idea she was even on the ballot.

The modern welfare state began not as a utopian vision of altruism and compassion, but as nothing more than a political ploy for one man to keep himself and his party in office.

Restriction of free thought and free speech might be the most dangerous of all subversions.

Do you think the Romans would applaud or boo? Would my short but pointed speech change anyone’s behavior?

What if all entrepreneurs took a walk and disappeared?

Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to simply avoid the socialist trap in the first place?

While Amelia Earhart certainly deserves to be remembered for her accomplishments, so does Neta Snook.

Ultimately, the laws of economics cannot be repealed by any mortal, not even presumptuous politicians and planners in government.

The Plymouth colonists met what were perhaps the only two English-speaking Indians on the eastern seaboard.

Peru missed an opportunity for greatness when its voters narrowly failed to elect Mario Vargas Llosa their President in 1990.

Don’t let presentism sully a great man!

Socialism is a tragic joke. This is Part One of two parts. Part Two is here: https://tinyurl.com/9z3fxtbk.

The story (in audio) of the Flushing Remonstrance, a pivotal document and moment that established a precedent of religious liberty in what would eventually become the United States. Based on this article: https://fee.org/articles/the-flushing-remonstrance-the-religious-magna-carta-of-the-new-world/.

Americans of the 1800s learned from the development of the telegraph that it was entrepreneurs in a free market, not government, that really promoted the “public interest.”

When he died in 1971, fellow Jazz great Duke Ellington said of him, “He was born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone along the way.”

The halls of capitol buildings are brimming with these empty suits who may never know what a real, wealth-creating job is. Your life and mine are the toys they get to play with.

Marian Anderson, George Washington Carver, and Booker T. Washington possessed wisdom and character that deserves to resonate and inspire for many generations to come.

Now that we know what socialism is, why is it anti-social? Let me count the ways.

How would you like to have delicate surgery performed in your mouth while on a boat—in its saloon, no less?