In the ancient world, when people got themselves into debt, they were often forced to sell their daughters into prostitution and their sons into …

“What are you complaining about all the time?” people sometimes ask me. “I’m just about as free as I want to be.” Here’s the …

Back in 1972, when I was a 10-year-old technology and news geek in Chicagoland, a particular story grabbed my attention. Someone had planted time …

That Edward Snowden has put the whole political, corporate, and governing class in a bind. With his revelations that a heretofore obscure agency has …

Mohandas Gandhi, the greatest pacifist of the 20th century, is widely quoted as having said, “Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in …

Like it or not, the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare, for short — is coming. Enrollment in state exchanges, online marketplaces for purchasing health …

Is there anything that we can do to stop the government’s data mining of our email, phone calls, and other digital habits? I moderated …

Struggling savers, of which there are plenty here at FreedomFest, have been getting plenty of investment wisdom during this year’s largest gathering of free minds. However, there is no consensus as to what a person is to do.

If the Spy Briefing Club is about anything, it’s about the freedom of thought. Most of us take the freedom to think what we …

The first round of negotiations over a new trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union is scheduled to start this week, but …

I was daydreaming over the weekend. The subject: notable intellectual epiphanies I’ve experienced in the course of my life. These are moments when someone …

The race issue in America never seems to go away. We were reminded again last week when celebrity Southern chef Paula Deen was raked …

Hanging out in Rome, surrounded by ruins of all ages, you can’t help but have big thoughts about the state of the world. Here …

My passport is festooned with patriotic blather about freedom and democracy. It didn’t used to be this way. The less freedom we have, the …

When volatility prevails in the gold market, I love seeing so many different opinions because it promotes critical thinking and healthy markets. But because …

Years ago, it was virtually unheard-of for someone to give up his/her U.S. citizenship. Then, one by one, a handful of famous cases surfaced… …

A new meme is spreading in financial markets: The Fed is about to turn off the monetary spigot. U.S. Printmaster General Ben Bernanke announced …

Many opponents of gun control support the war on drugs, and many critics and reformers of America’s drug laws tend to believe in gun …

Dear rest of the world: Please know that it is painful for Americans to see what is happening in the case of Edward Snowden. …

By the end of the week, 1,700 liberty lovers are expected to stop in at Roger’s Campground in Lancaster, N.H., to see what the …

The collective fondness for presidents grows after they leave office for a simple reason. The next occupant of the office is always worse. For …

Where things stood at the close of last week: Dow down 105, gold up $9 an ounce. Nothing worthy of comment, in other words. …

Perhaps the question is no longer if Obamacare will wreak havoc on the American economy. Instead, the query seems to have morphed into something …

When NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden wanted to talk to reporter Glenn Greenwald, he insisted that they use encrypted chat. Unfortunately, Greenwald didn’t know how …