B.K. Marcus is a Contributing Editor of FEE.
Capitalism has produced an unprecedented level of wealth and freedom for everyone — women in particular.
Companies that are looking for innovators and creative thinkers don't care about your grades.
What's driving young people's declining view of capitalism?
Government meddling with education creates bizarre and wasteful incentives for college applicants.
The more decisions we cede to the political process, the less we should expect anyone to protect our interests — even we don't bother to do it.
Terrorists want not only to kill and maim but to traumatize. What, then, do we do with that trauma?
Humanity’s oldest stories follow the form: the lone individual in peril on behalf of his tribe. From the Hobbit to Harry Potter, from Star Wars to the Hunger Games, we see this pattern embedded in the structure of our favorite tales.
Socialist students aren't necessarily opposed to meritocracy; they just don't see what merit has to do with the marketplace.
Friends and foes of capitalism have both drawn a line between socialism and democracy.
The more we value independence and diversity, the less vulnerable we will be to the distortions of conformity.
Homeschooled students are, in fact, more socially resilient and flexible than their conventionally schooled peers — but what if the “socialization” question is code for a very different agenda?
Model students don't challenge authority, even when they should. They have too much to lose.
National Socialism should be remembered for what it was and still is.
School choice is good for students and taxpayers, but the unions are fighting it tooth and nail.
As long as the demand continues for an annual hiatus from the normal rules, the market will supply whatever is necessary.
The Constitution is an instrument of state power; the Bill of Rights is one of individual liberty.
The obsession with visual self-presentation is much older — and significantly more beneficial — than the critics understand.
The Virgin Islands tried to save refugees fleeing war and genocide. The federal government stopped them.
Before the invention of standard time, there were dozens of different answers to "what time is it?" in every state.
Fictional portrayals of the zombie apocalypse show our subconscious yearning for smaller government.
Banning Mein Kampf doesn't make its ideas less attractive to those the censors fear.
In America, there's basically no such thing as a "banned book," but that doesn't stop the American Library Association from claiming censorship is worse than ever.
Advocates of government education are right to be worried by the number of homeschool families, but not because homeschooled kids are learning any anti-government ideology at home. The greatest threat that homeschooling poses to the government system is its diversity, its resiliency, and its undisputed academic success.
A 14-year-old student built a digital clock to impress his teachers; they had him arrested and interrogated.
What if government could be framed so that it need not be administered by men over men?
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