Sarah Skwire is the Literary Editor of FEE.org and a senior fellow at Liberty Fund, Inc. She is a poet and author of the writing textbook Writing with a Thesis. She is a member of the FEE Faculty Network. Email
George Washington in 1790 gave a beautiful speech in defense of toleration at the Touro synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island.
Everyone starts by doing something else—quite possibly something they hate—and learning and earning their way to something better.
The VCR changed everything, and it had to die for Netflix to live.
The 1650s were a time of unprecedented upheaval in England. There was the public trial and execution of the King and the creation of an entirely new form of government. In the midst of it all, a book about fishing came out.
How many bricks can we pull out before the whole thing collapses around our ears?
What happens when women are educated to be weak, dependent, and immoral?
The division of labor is not a narrowing of what we can do but a broadening of what we don’t have to do.
Is modern marriage more than unnecessary layers of legal complications, forms, and fees?
Libertarian literature tends to be as dull as socialist literature.
If you’re against apartment buildings, you’re against economic newcomers.
Just reading about how laundry used to be done is exhausting.
We can’t know what our country lacks until we see what other countries have.
It’s not funny that Trump’s family name used to be Drumpf. But it is worth talking about.
Different treatment is a way of acknowledging different kinds of bonds between people and different levels of responsibility to them.
Albright’s insistence that women have a duty to vote for Clinton because she is also a woman is sexism of the oldest and most annoying type.
In the 19th century, Anthony Trollope treated his writing like a business — and he was shunned for it. Today’s bestselling authors don’t care.
Luc Sante looks back at the impoverished past through a misty and romantic haze. He even longs for the muck.
All the folks down in Galt’s Gulch liked Markets a lot...
sing someone’s requested name is a simple sign of respect. Sometimes we shouldn’t do it.
Harvard's undergrad House Masters have abolished their name because it has been "associated with slavery" during campus protests.
TV’s newest superhero is meek, awkward, and unlikable. Luckily, she knows a savvy businesswoman who can set her straight.
Kamala Khan, the new Ms. Marvel, is a great character, a believable teenager, and a symbol that lets us rethink our own identities while we watch her learn to balance hers.
Playboy needed to get creative and change, or be destroyed by its competitors’ creativity.
Andy Weir’s novel The Martian explores the limits of our ability to survive without the division of labor.
When you are invited to engage in some silliness, say yes, and add something of your own. It might take you into the intricacies of the early modern literary/theological/political network. It might take you into space. It might take you into Camelot. The value of it, as Hayek points out, is that we don’t know where it will take us.
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