Lawrence W. Reed

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How the UK’s 2004 Ban on Fox Hunting Led to a ‘Catastrophic Decline’ in the Fox Population

Every day the world over, good intentions cover up a multitude of sins. A visitor from another planet could hardly…

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A Brief History of Presidential Campaign Songs and Other Musical Musings

Franklin Roosevelt’s campaign song for his first presidential run in 1932 was the catchy number titled Happy Days are Here…

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The Jane Jacobs History You Weren’t Taught in School

Based on the following credentials, which of these two very real (but now deceased) people do you think would be…

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John Bozeman: The Frontier Entrepreneur Who Forged a Path to Montana

One of the most interesting exports from Georgia to Montana was the namesake for the latter state’s fourth largest city.…

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How Israel’s Historic Declaration of Independence Almost Didn’t Happen (At Least Not On Time)

In March 1985, I rented a car in Copenhagen, Denmark, and drove 40 miles north along the Øresund (one of…

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Don’t Call Scandinavian Countries ‘Socialist’

One of the great delusions of our day is that Scandinavian countries are “socialist” and so America should be socialist…

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Edgar Guest: Remembering ‘The People’s Poet’

Poetry is not my strong suit, I’m no good at writing verse. My prose may be no better, but at…

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FDR’s Other ‘Day of Infamy’: When the US Government Seized All Citizens’ Gold

December 7, 1941 will forever be remembered as, in the words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “a date that will live…

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John Lennon was Actually an Awful Role Model

Sixty years ago, Beatlemania was rocking the world of music. Writing in the Atlantic, Colin Fleming refers to 1963 as…

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Mary Seacole: The British-Jamaican Nurse Who Served Thousands of British Troops During the Crimean War—on Her Own Dime

“Do-gooder” is rarely a term of endearment. A prominent dictionary defines one as “an earnest but often naive humanitarian or…

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