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• Liberty to Learn
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  Kerry McDonald | Thursday, December 6, 2018
  Fill out the form below to get your own copy of Liberty to Learn! Introduction For most of human history, until quite recently, education and schooling were separate and distinct. When the Pilgrims arrived on the shores of the New World in 1620, searching for personal liberty and freedom of expression, the expectation for educating […]
• Baptists and Bootleggers in the Global War on Cash
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  Lawrence H. White | Wednesday, February 1, 2017

  Basic economics tells us that voluntary trade is mutually beneficial. Government policies that compel or ban actions cannot be presumed beneficial, including when it reduces their range of payment options.

• Homeschoolers: It’s for the Children
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  Lawrence W. Reed | Friday, July 3, 2015

  The verdict is in: the one ingredient that makes the most difference in how well and how much children learn is parental involvement. 

• Race, Culture, and the Digital Divide
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  Larry Schweikart | Wednesday, May 1, 2002
  Prior to the September 11 attacks and the stock market slump, one of the hottest policy issues debated by technology scholars was the so-called racial “digital divide,” a term concocted to portray “haves and have nots” in the world of the Internet. The paper “Bridging the Digital Divide: The Impact of Race on Computer Access […]
• An Illustration of Why Section 230 Should Be Preserved, Not Scrapped
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  Kimberlee Josephson | Saturday, February 4, 2023

  Do not let the Nanny State solidify its spot as the overbearing chaperone at the party.

• Jan Ernst Matzeliger: The Henry Ford of Shoes
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  Lawrence W. Reed | Monday, February 1, 2021

  At the age of 19, he spent his savings sailing the world on a merchant ship before he settled two years later in Philadelphia—without a job or friends and speaking only Dutch.

  In 1877 he took a job in a shoe factory, and just six years later he patented an invention that revolutionized the industry. 

• Human Ingenuity Is the Key to Defeating the Coronavirus
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  Gonzalo Schwarz | Friday, April 3, 2020

  Now more than ever, the government should not be erecting barriers to innovation. As economist Julian Simon has pointed out, our ultimate resource is human ingenuity. This is no different in the fight against the coronavirus.

• New York Lawmakers Want to Screen Gun Buyers’ Social Media History for Hate Speech
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  Jon Miltimore | Tuesday, November 6, 2018

  Under the legislation, gun purchasers would have up to three years of their social media history potentially scrutinized by authorities. The internet search history of prospective gun buyers would face searches going back up to one year.

• Liberty: Legacy of Truth
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  Leonard E. Read | Wednesday, September 26, 2018
  Fill out the form below to get your own copy of Liberty: Legacy of Truth! 1. Liberty: Legacy of Truth There are three parts to truth: first the inquiry, which is the wooing of it; secondly, the knowledge of it, which is the presence of it; and thirdly, the belief, which is the enjoyment of […]
• To Free or Freeze
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  Leonard E. Read |
  Fill out the form below to get your own free, downloadable copy of To Free or Freeze! 1. How Loose The Talk Though his beginnings be but poor and low, Thank God, a man can grow! —Florence Earle Coates How much is really known about political economy, the principal subject of our concern? Many proclaim […]