'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

The political class can't imagine a decentralized world where good things happen...without them. But in the real world, that's exactly how good things happen, and how jobs are created. When government sets simple rules that everyone understands and then gets out of the way, free people create jobs.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.