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The Seduction of Homeschooling Families
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (991+ words) Editor's Note: Originally published by our partner, the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), in The Freeman in March 1998, this essay remains one of the clearest examinations of how government homeschooling programs can gradually erode educational independence. Although some figures and…...
Liberal Arts and the Quest to Think For Myself
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (1639+ words) A liberal arts education was never meant to train workers. It was meant to cultivate free minds. I arrived at Ohio State in the early 1980s the way a lot of freshmen do, unsure of exactly how this new undergraduate adventure…...
The Third-Party Doctrine Is Dying. Government Surveillance Is Not.
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (696+ words) The strongest privacy protection, it turns out, isn't a warrant: It's when our data is never collected into a single vault. In its recent Chatrie v. United States decision, the Supreme Court held that obtaining a person’s Google location history through…...
Why It's So Hard to Start a School (And What Can Be Done About It)
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (781+ words) Outdated regulations prevent educators from building the schools families are demanding. As a former wildland firefighter, I had spent years assessing structures, studying fire behavior, and making the hard decisions on which buildings we were likely to save and which…...
No, Norway Is Not Some Democratic Socialist Paradise
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (926+ words) Taxes claims half of middle class paychecks, leaving households with subpar public services and less disposable income. If only America were willing to embrace a little more social democracy and bigger government, this popular and recurring story goes, perhaps it…...
Adam Smith’s Call to Duty
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (1577+ words) Adam Smith believed freedom rests not merely on rights, but on citizens willing to govern themselves. When grievance replaces self-examination, liberty becomes increasingly dependent on external authority rather than inner discipline. In my Advocates essay “Self-Command is the Price of…...
What Do They Do with Your Tax Dollars?
1+ week, 3+ day ago (779+ words) Why does public spending seem to keep rising, rapidly, no matter who we elect? Perhaps it is not so much the party of those we send to Congress or to our state legislature that counts. Perhaps what matters more is…...
What a BBQ Feud Teaches Us About Freedom
1+ week, 3+ day ago (307+ words) An offset smoker or a pellet grill? Markets allow people with different preferences to choose for themselves, not fight political battles over a single “right” answer. Collectively deciding on any of these consumer items would politicize each decision and potentially…...
Why I Had to Leave: How Fear Changed My Everyday Life
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1324+ words) Staring Into a Bleak Future Author David Jäkle overlooking Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, California. This is part two of my series. The first was the case against Germany; this is what living inside it did to me. Something…...
Why I Had to Leave: I Learned to Refuse Myself
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1324+ words) Staring Into a Bleak Future Author David Jäkle overlooking Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, California. This is part two of my series. The first was the case against Germany; this is what living inside it did to me. Something…...