Douglass' classic speech is an indictment of slavery, racism, and American hypocrisy - but also includes a great deal of praise of the American Revolution.
Get ready for more pain caused by COVID-19 as well as by the policies intended to hold it in check.
Even after government had imposed an almost unfathomable level of intervention on the economy, the markets are chugging along much better than expected.
Top-down, one-size-fits-few mandates are recipes for conflict.
Plus: the weird new battle lines on warrantless surveillance, more CDC incompetence, Minneapolis on fire, and more…
We've seen this before...
Even the president is a better moral philosopher than New York's governor.
Unless we cause one by overreacting to Asia's changing political and economic landscape
We may find that we like making our own decisions.
Plus: Puerto Rico criminalizes fake news about COVID-19, wide geographic disparity in U.S. income growth, and more...
The restrictions are less dangerous precisely because they are so broad and onerous.
The real resistance is made up of those who refuse to be governed by any of the wannabe rulers.
Gig workers and companies are suing over a California law, AB 5, that criminalizes their continued employment.
Plus: Is there anything the upcoming spending bill doesn't contain? And more...
Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang thinks so.
"Liberty," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "is unobstructed action according to our will; but rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within the limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others."
A Davidson County judge ruled Tuesday that Nashville's ban on home businesses servicing clients on site is constitutional.
Dump intrusive trade policies to give a real boost to consumers and entrepreneurs.
Another victory for licensing reform in the Grand Canyon State.
Revisiting their debate on judicial protection of economic liberty.
A new Reason Foundation report finds cities in Texas and Florida have the highest degrees of economic freedom.
State lawmakers target pet groomers, drain cleaners, interior designers, pecan buyers, athletic trainers, antler dealers, and....art therapists?
People getting starry eyed about socialism should look to Venezuela for some important warning signs.
India is known as the land of contradictions, and recent events do little to undermine that reputation.
The U.S. rose four places in the International Tax Competitiveness Index, and this just the latest bit of good news.
Economic freedom is good-whether in itself or because of the longevity, prosperity, and associated liberty it brings.
Let's get behind economic freedom for everyone, even when we don't like how they use it.
In a speech drafted but never delivered in the waning weeks of the 1980 campaign, Reagan was to say: "The overriding question is not one of Left or Right. It is one of reversing the flow of power and control to ever more remote institutions."
We don't need UBI to enable people to tell bosses to take the job and shove it.
A state senator wants to crack down on "economic crimes" in the state's underground economy.
It's right there in the North Carolina Constitution -- and the N.C. Supreme Court has just enforced it, in a case brought by a public employee, but potentially applicable to economic liberty claims brought by private businesses in the future.
Starvation won't turn Cubans into capitalists. Trade and tourism might.
Do you care about free minds and free markets? Sign up to get the biggest stories from Reason in your inbox every afternoon.
This modal will close in 10
