Lawrence Reed became the president of FEE on September 1 2008. To honor the occasion, we reprint his first “Ideas and Consequences” column, which was originally published in The Freeman in April 1994.
Imagine playing a game—baseball, cards, “Monopoly,” or whatever—in which there was only one rule: anything goes.
You could discard the “instruction book” from the [...]
No More Czars Please
American’s Should Be Angry About Explosion in “Czars”
By Lawrence W. Reed
Published: 19 June 2009
Since taking office, President Barack Obama has made creating “czars” a top priority. He has created a Car Czar, a Cybersecurity Czar and a Compensation Czar, just to name a few. Some counts put the total at 15 [...]
By DCT | January 25, 2009
One of our goals at For Freedom’s Sake is to provide the underlying principles, philosophical ideas, facts, and the best and most reliable scholarship available on freedom to our readers. In doing so, we hope to enable you to navigate through all of the noise and misinformation which blurs our ability to see our nation’s [...]
