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EspañolPericles’s speech exhorting Athenians during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) is perhaps the most celebrated oration in defense of democratic values ever given. The Greek statesman defends Athenian patriotism, but also the…
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EspañolNo, it is not a misprint. I did not mean for the title to be the "Angst 'for' Freedom." A pioneering 1941 work in social psychology by social scientist Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom (also known as The Fear of Freedom), explores…
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EspañolIt's striking to remember, or perhaps to discover for the first time, the invaluable example of bravery that Hans and Sophie Scholl showed in the National Socialist Germany of Adolf Hitler. These two young people gave their lives…
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I am a free person; I am born into liberty as a natural consequence of my existence. My well-being is my responsibility; I will not ask others to work on my behalf, nor tolerate those who seek to force me to work on theirs. I am…
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EspañolOn several occasions I have written about walls and their increasing prominence in our lives. On November 9, however, we will bear witness to a special occasion: the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall — the "iconic…
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EspañolBy Joel D. Hirst Every night, from a distant land, I watch with heartache the nightmare of modern Venezuela. I listen to the pleas of my friends on Facebook as they mourn for their lost country and desperately hope that, somehow,…
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EspañolThe Honduran special development regions — now the ZEDEs — have been raising expectations for a while, especially among libertarians. This was to be expected: the new ZEDE legislation offers a system with more freedom than almost any…
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EspañolMartin Luther King Jr. had a dream. It was a good one. I also have a dream. My dream also deals with equality, but it is the kind of equality that can only be achieved with liberty. That is not just the commonly understood…
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Español Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted Agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material…
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