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Great-Depression

1932 & You get what you voted against

Lawrence W. Reed / 10-08-2010

Harry Truman once said, “The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know.” That observation applies especially well to what tens of millions of Americans have been taught about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the man under whom Truman served as vice president for about a month. Recent scholarship [...]

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What is Real Compassion?

Lawrence W. Reed / 21-05-2010

In every political campaign, we hear the word “compassion” at least a thousand times. Big government programs are supposed to be evidence of compassion; cutting back government is a sign of cold-hearted meanness. By their misuse of the term for partisan advantage, politicians have thoroughly muddied the real meaning of the word. As Marvin Olasky points [...]

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Animals We Can Learn From

Lawrence W. Reed / 16-01-2010

There’s an old story worth retelling about a band of wild hogs which lived along a river in a wild and remote area. These hogs were a stubborn, ornery, independent bunch. They had survived floods, fires, freezes, droughts, hunters, dogs and everything else. No one thought they could ever be captured. One day a stranger came [...]

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