from FEE

Too often, our society’s response to vulnerability is to “protect” individuals from themselves by stripping them of their rights and freedoms.

The lockdowns sure haven’t helped.

More than 15% of the money allocated goes to long-standing partisan policies, including some shocking allocations that have nothing at all to do with the pandemic.

If we’re lucky, Bezos's example will inspire millions of more entrepreneurs in the 21st century.

Most young Americans today understand that Social Security won’t provide for their financial needs in the future, even though their payroll taxes are likely to continue to rise.

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

Wharton School analysts concluded that Biden’s proposed spending binge would actually lead to a smaller economy in 2022. Here’s why.

After much pain and suffering, Venezuelan socialist leaders have conceded they cannot effectively run an economy.

February 15 marks birth of Frank Chodorov, one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century and former editor of "The Freeman."

The economist Thomas Sowell explains that there are two ruling concepts of justice in America today.

If given a chance, the market will eventually provide solutions to many of the grievances stemming from Big Tech's clumsy efforts to control user content.

The fact that even the New York Times is finally beginning to discuss unintended consequences of COVID-19 'hygiene theater' is a sign we may be moving in the right direction.

With the growing chorus of free-market economists calling out the president’s proposal, hopefully the public will soon realize that there’s no economic justification for Biden’s political spending push.

A $7,500 investment in bitcoin in 2015, when economist Paul Krugman described it as "bubble" rooted in "libertarian ideology," today would be worth $1.2 million.

The president of the New York Stock Exchange is openly warning that the famed financial center may relocate if a radical new law is implemented.

Just because a solution is a free market response does not make it the right response, and in this instance cancel culture is compounding many of the root problems it seeks to eliminate.

Tesla’s purchase signals an exciting future. It signals currency competition.

In centralized countries, government officials mainly deal with numbers, not real people.

In July 1893, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams became the first surgeon to successfully operate on the human heart. The amazing procedure is rivaled by a surgery performed on a US president—in the saloon of a boat—just nine days earlier.

By forcing a $15 minimum wage on a conservative state like Texas, the federal government would be forcing Texans to live like Californians.

The “Global Go To Think Tank Index Report” ranks FEE as the 55th top think tank in the US for 2020.

Tom Brady’s Super Bowl success has outlasted many titans of corporate America.

If more college graduates were allowed to keep the dollars they earn, they would get out of debt a whole lot faster.

Rule by decree is, frankly, un-American and certainly un-democratic.

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer’s PRO Act is a case study in unintended consequences.

F.A. Harper was a prime example of defending liberty in a principled way—through education, persuasion, demonstration.

Competition of ideas and words without fear and name calling is a fundamental tenet of classical liberalism.

Nicolás Maduro’s mismanagement may have brought dark days for Venezuela, but there’s a Bitcoin-shaped light at the end of the tunnel.

No amount of good intentions can invalidate basic economics.

It is hard to see how Americans’ well-being would be advanced by a 'reality czar."

Unlike many US presidents, Ronald Reagan understood there was no loftier achievement for any society than freedom.

Research has found that “reopening decisions have more to do with influence from teachers’ unions than safety concerns.”

Anti-corporate progressives and economic populists operate under the same delusion.

A recent Bloomberg article cited a new University of Chicago survey to demonstrate a "shift" in the economics profession on minimum wage laws. Here's what they left out.

Economists interviewed by FEE warn that Senator Warren's new proposal would backfire horribly.

We can do an awful lot of harm when we impose our “solutions” on people whose contexts we don’t understand.

No matter what you think about America entering World War I, and no matter what color your skin, you can celebrate the heroic Harlem Hellfighters. They were among the best.

A new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that "enforcement of mandatory restrictions" appears to have driven the collapse of sales in California.

It is not the hedge funds that are ultimately responsible for market volatility and financial crises.

Intellectuals have an abundance of knowledge and influence, but they, too, have biases and blind spots.

This result certainly wasn’t what local lawmakers intended, but it was actually quite predictable.

Some insightful words from one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.

There's a simple reasons operations like Chick-fil-A can operate with an efficiency bureaucracies will never be able to match.

In a twist that could only ever happen in Big Government, this same official, Julie Su, is getting promoted to a top post in the Biden administration despite the scandal.

Any landlord who fails to comply with the CDC’s policy can be slapped with fines up to $200,000 and could face criminal prosecution.

In 1991, the US Postal Service issued a 29-cent stamp in memory of inventor Jan Ernst Matzeliger, whose lasting machine revolutionized the manufacturing of shoes.

Firms leveraging situations and social issues is not new, but showcasing their moral authority despite a disinterested consumer base is.

From unsustainable cost to the student loan crisis to activist ideology and cancel culture, the problems facing higher education are serious.

Censoring certain voices isn’t just morally problematic, it’s bad for the economy, too.

Completed by Finnish painter Eero Järnefelt in 1893, Under The Yoke poetically captures the reality and immiseration of pre-industrial subsistence farming. It also holds a vital reminder about the struggle for human progress.