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Lawrence W. Reed

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  • Publius Rutilius Rufus: Rome’s ‘Last Honest Man’

    Publius Rutilius Rufus: Rome’s ‘Last Honest Man’2

    Banished for debasing the currency from his home city in what is now north-central Turkey, Diogenes of Sinope chose to beg in the streets of Corinth and Athens, live in a clay jar, and eschew wealth of any kind. The story is often told that he walked the streets with a lantern, looking in vain for

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  • DeSantis Reminds Public Universities of an Uncomfortable Truth

    DeSantis Reminds Public Universities of an Uncomfortable Truth0

    “He who pays the piper calls the tune” is a familiar proverb. Wiktionary tells us it means that “The person paying for something is the one who gets to say how it should be done.” It’s difficult if not impossible to argue against its wisdom. What’s the alternative? I suppose it would be something like,

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  • Evil Is Rising, but Despair Is Not an Option

    Evil Is Rising, but Despair Is Not an Option1

    To many people, the world seems to make less and less sense with each passing day. Values we once cherished and that bound civil society together face daily bombardment. Offensive things are routinely said and done today in ways intended to inflame and divide. Freedoms we took for granted—freedoms of thought, speech, press, religion—are under

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  • Edgar Guest: Remembering ‘The People’s Poet’

    Edgar Guest: Remembering ‘The People’s Poet’0

    Poetry is not my strong suit, I’m no good at writing verse. My prose may be no better, but at least I could do worse. Oh my gosh, I’m a poet and don’t know it! If it hadn’t been for a couple good English teachers in high school, I might have never read more than

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