Lawrence W. Reed, FEE

Lawrence W. Reed

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New York, NY, United States

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Recent:
  • Unknown
Past:
  • FEE
  • The D.C. Clothesline

Past articles by Lawrence:

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How To Get the Most Out of Others

Encouragement looms large at every level because we humans respond positively to incentives; we react negatively to disincentives. → Read More

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The Hero of the Holodomor Who Exposed Stalin’s Horrors—and Paid With His Life

No credible person today denies that this holocaust occurred. But in March 1933, Gareth Jones was shocked to find his revelations denounced by veteran and highly-respected journalists. → Read More

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How Calvin Coolidge Responded to a Voter Concerned That Republicans Had Nominated a Black Dentist For Congress

"My dear Sir: Your letter is received, accompanied by a newspaper clipping which discusses the possibility that a colored man may be the Republican nominee for Congress from one of the New York districts. Referring to this newspaper statement, you say..." → Read More

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The History of Slavery You Probably Weren't Taught in School

Watch this 8-minute video, Facts About Slavery Never Mentioned in School and you might ask, “Why didn’t I hear this before?” → Read More

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Recognizing Hard Truths about America's History With Slavery

The world progressed from acceptance and ubiquity of chattel slavery in the 18th century to near-universal abolition a century later. If we are to assess slavery and its abolition accurately, we must see them in their fullest historical and cultural contexts. → Read More

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Meet the First American Journalist to Interview Hitler—and the First Expelled From Nazi Germany

"‘Good morning, madam, there is a gentleman here from the secret state police.’ ‘Send him up,’ I said. He was a young man in a trench coat like Hitler’s. He brought an order that I should leave the country immediately within forty-eight hours, for journalistic activities inimical to Germany." → Read More

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Character Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving—And Not Just On Christmas

It’s never too soon for anybody to focus on character-building. In the long run, it’s what you’ll be most remembered for. → Read More

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A President Who Warned Americans What Extravagant Federal Spending Would Do to Character

If only we had listened. "The lessons of extravagance and paternalism must be unlearned; economy and frugality must be reinstated; and the people must exact from their representatives a watchful care for the general welfare and a stern resistance to the demands of selfish interests, if our Government is to be an enduring and beneficent protection to a patriotic and virtuous people." → Read More

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Six Ways Socialism is Anti-Social

Fact: socialists do not propose to accomplish their objectives by mutual consent. → Read More

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When Giving Is Smart and When It Isn’t

Sometimes Ayn Rand is misunderstood as an opponent of charitable giving, so intensely selfish that she couldn’t countenance one person doing a good thing for another. Her hero in Atlas Shrugged, John Galt, tells Dagny Taggart, “I’ll warn you now that there is one word which is forbidden in this valley: the word ‘give.’” → Read More

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The British Prime Minister Who Tried to Prevent an ‘Impious War’ Against the American Colonies

One of Great Britain's most prominent statesmen flat out said England would lose a war with the American Colonies and the Empire should rescind its oppressive taxes to preserve peace. "I trust it is obvious to your Lordships that all attempts to impose servitude [on the American colonists], to establish despotism over such a mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be fatal. We shall be… → Read More

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Otto von Bismarck: The Man Behind the Modern Welfare State

Thomas Sowell on the welfare state: "The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly...It has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results...It shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among… → Read More

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When Equality Becomes Evil

Consider two violinists. One plays in an underground subway for whatever coins that passersby toss into his violin case. The other performs in concert halls before audiences of thousands. It does not matter that they may play the same tunes and be equally pleasing to the ear. The income of the first one will never come close to the income of the second unless and until he cleans up his act and… → Read More

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How Sound Money Won the Battle of Yorktown—and Saved the American Revolution

The three-week siege of Yorktown ended on October 17 when British General Cornwallis, unable to escape by sea because of the French fleet, surrendered. But it might have ended much differently if not for a French admiral's eleventh hour effort to get George Washington's disgruntled troops sound money instead of depreciated, fiat-paper money. → Read More

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Lukashenko’s Mad Attempt to 'Forbid' Prices From Rising Is a Movie We've Seen Before

Facing an annual rate of price inflation of nearly 20 percent, Vladimir Putin’s most loyal stooge in Eastern Europe is about to make things much, much worse. → Read More

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The Root of Today’s Worldwide Education Problem Is Staring Us in the Face

If you think US schools are the only ones failing, you're sorely mistaken. → Read More

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Whose Birthday Is on September 29? A Look at the Best (and Worst) in History

Which famous Roman conqueror (born on this day in 106 B.C.) said it? “The needs of the state outweigh the needs of the individual.” → Read More

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What Calvin Coolidge’s 'Common Sense' Vetoes of Two Farm Bills Can Teach about Price Controls

Coolidge actually vetoed the legislation twice. He killed the bill in February 1927. Congress didn’t get the message and sent it to him again in May 1928. → Read More

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Why Living Under the US Constitution Is the 'Greatest Political Privilege' of All

On this day in 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia signed the Constitution. British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone described it a century later as “the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.” → Read More

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How the James-Younger Gang’s Historic Defeat Showed the Importance of a Well-Armed and Responsible Citizenry

The outlaws met their match on this day in history in 1876. The story of how they fell offers a timeless lesson on the importance of a well-armed, vigilant, and responsible citizenry. → Read More