Available: The central planners of the Biden administration think they know what the energy of the future should look like, so do not be surprised if they squander billions on solar and wind schemes that go broke. It’s time to re-learn what happened nearly 200 years ago when government thought it knew what the future of another industry looked like—communications. Did you know that the federal government first ran the telegraph business? During that brief period, it stagnated. Only when it was privatized, however, did it expand beyond a small corner of the East Coast and become profitable....…Available: The central planners of the Biden administration think they know what the energy of the future should look like, so do not be surprised if they squander billions on solar and wind schemes that go broke. It’s time to re-learn what happened nearly 200 years ago when government thought it knew what the future of another industry looked like—communications. Did you know that the federal government first ran the telegraph business? During that brief period, it stagnated. Only when it was privatized, however, did it expand beyond a small corner of the East Coast and become profitable....WW…

Available: []Those of us who want to put government in its proper place and keep it limited sometimes come across to others as naysayers. Because we’re not suckers for the promises of politicians to take care of every corner of our lives, we get accused of being mean and uncaring. But we should be quick to point out that we are opposed to excessive government because we are in favor of some incredibly positive and important things. We want to limit government ultimately because we support freedom, without which life would hardly be worth living. The meanest and most uncaring...…Available: []Those of us who want to put government in its proper place and keep it limited sometimes come across to others as naysayers. Because we’re not suckers for the promises of politicians to take care of every corner of our lives, we get accused of being mean and uncaring. But we should be quick to point out that we are opposed to excessive government because we are in favor of some incredibly positive and important things. We want to limit government ultimately because we support freedom, without which life would hardly be worth living. The meanest and most uncaring...WW…

Early America had widespread literacy and a vibrant culture of learning.Parents the world over are dealing with massive adjustments in their children’s education that they could not have anticipated just three months ago. To one degree or another, pandemic-induced school closures are creating the “mass homeschooling” that FEE’s senior education fellow Kerry McDonald . Who knows, with millions of youngsters absent from government school classrooms, maybe education will become as good as it was before the government ever got involved.“What?” you exclaim! “Wasn’t education lousy or...…Early America had widespread literacy and a vibrant culture of learning.Parents the world over are dealing with massive adjustments in their children’s education that they could not have anticipated just three months ago. To one degree or another, pandemic-induced school closures are creating the “mass homeschooling” that FEE’s senior education fellow Kerry McDonald . Who knows, with millions of youngsters absent from government school classrooms, maybe education will become as good as it was before the government ever got involved.“What?” you exclaim! “Wasn’t education lousy or...WW…

He graduated from preaching Marxism in the classroom to practicing it in the field.To waste your life chasing delusions is bad enough. To sacrifice innocent lives without remorse as you pursue those fantasies is downright criminal. It defines you as a sociopath and a homicidal maniac.Abimael Guzmán is all of that and worse. At age 85, he presently resides in a maximum-security prison at a Peruvian naval base near Lima. Unrepentant and unlamented but for a handful of radical sycophants, he is living testimony to the terrible power of socialist extremism. Thirty years ago, he was Peru’s most...…He graduated from preaching Marxism in the classroom to practicing it in the field.To waste your life chasing delusions is bad enough. To sacrifice innocent lives without remorse as you pursue those fantasies is downright criminal. It defines you as a sociopath and a homicidal maniac.Abimael Guzmán is all of that and worse. At age 85, he presently resides in a maximum-security prison at a Peruvian naval base near Lima. Unrepentant and unlamented but for a handful of radical sycophants, he is living testimony to the terrible power of socialist extremism. Thirty years ago, he was Peru’s most...WW…