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The Power of Unpopularity: A Lesson from Hungary About Freedom

by Kristóf Ábel Tarnay December 24, 2025

Merry Christmas! Here is what SpeakFreely asked from Santa

Freedom Is the Real Christmas Miracle

Think You’re Print-Worthy? Show Us What You’ve Got!

When We Parachuted FishPonds Into a Village

Green Light at the Wrong Time: The Unintended Consequences of Georgia’s EU...

Do Rent Stabilization Laws Solve the Housing Affordability Issue?

One Must Choose Between Being an Economist or a Socialist

by Serge Schweitzer December 15, 2025

Polymarket vs. Central Banks: Who Predicts Inflation Better?

Get ready for holiday debates with SpeakFreely!

Georgia’s Three-Headed Media Monster and the EU

Self-Censorship: The Virus of the 21st Century

A Century Between Two Collectivisms

The UAE Investment and Georgia’s Fear of Openness

Politics

The Power of Unpopularity: A Lesson from Hungary About Freedom

by Kristóf Ábel Tarnay December 24, 2025

Green Light at the Wrong Time: The Unintended Consequences of Georgia’s EU Candidate Status

by Giorgi Kajaia December 18, 2025

Do Rent Stabilization Laws Solve the Housing Affordability Issue?

by Bogdan Bodomoiu December 16, 2025

Georgia’s Three-Headed Media Monster and the EU

by Ilia Zhuzhunashvili December 7, 2025

Economics

One Must Choose Between Being an Economist or a Socialist

by Serge Schweitzer December 15, 2025

Polymarket vs. Central Banks: Who Predicts Inflation Better?

by Ilia Zhuzhunashvili December 15, 2025

Minecraft Proves Hayek’s “Knowledge Problem” Right

by Ilia Zhuzhunashvili November 27, 2025

Are Tariffs the Bitter Pill America Must Swallow?

by Kassymov Diyar November 14, 2025

Culture

Merry Christmas! Here is what SpeakFreely asked from Santa

by Ian Golan December 23, 2025
by Ian Golan December 23, 2025

Think You’re Print-Worthy? Show Us What You’ve Got!

by John Devlin December 20, 2025
by John Devlin December 20, 2025

Why Are Libertarians Peddling Conservative Sex Fantasies?

by Ian Golan November 26, 2025
by Ian Golan November 26, 2025

The Scariest Things the State Does This Halloween!

by Ian Golan October 27, 2025
by Ian Golan October 27, 2025

EU Elections

Spain’s New University Decree: More Regulation, Less Excellence

by Nicolás Sánchez October 28, 2025
by Nicolás Sánchez October 28, 2025

A Corrosive Legacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina

by Tea Kljajić September 19, 2025
by Tea Kljajić September 19, 2025

Post-war rebuilding of Ukraine: To Become Better Than Before

by Tania Rak September 12, 2025
by Tania Rak September 12, 2025

Transformation to Freedom: Interview with Leszek Balcerowicz

by Ian Golan September 6, 2025
by Ian Golan September 6, 2025

Archive

  • Society

    Celebrating Kirk’s Death Is Celebrating the Death of Free Speech

    by Ogechukwu Egwuatu September 12, 2025
    September 12, 2025

    I cannot claim to know conservative activist Charlie Kirk or his politics well. When I saw the headline that he had …

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  • ConscriptionEconomics

    From Rinks To Barracks: How Military Draft Plunders Finnish NHL Talent

    by Ian Golan September 11, 2025
    September 11, 2025

    Conscription is robbing Finland’s hockey talent, to the delight of the army bureaucracy On the ice, Mikko Rantanen has faced broken …

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  • Technology

     Libertarians Pioneered Crypto, Now We Must Reclaim It from Big Tech and the State

    by Carter Feldman September 10, 2025
    September 10, 2025

    The mainstream adoption of crypto from 2020 to 2022 left a lot of people disillusioned. Libertarians included. What started as a …

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  • Europe’s Fiscal Cliff

    Red-Tape Continent

    by Ogechukwu Egwuatu September 9, 2025
    September 9, 2025

    Ogechukwu Egwuatu on how overregulation in the EU stifles freedom and hinders progress. The EU is suffering from a regulation fever. …

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  • Culture

    What’s the Most Beautiful Building in the World?

    by Yonatan Daon-Stern September 7, 2025
    September 7, 2025

    This piece first appeared on Yonatan’s Substack Philosophy: I Need It. The West has forgotten what beauty means. We either reduce …

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  • EU Elections

    Transformation to Freedom: Interview with Leszek Balcerowicz

    by Ian Golan September 6, 2025
    September 6, 2025

    Leszek Balcerowicz is a former Chairman of the National Bank of Poland and was twice Deputy Prime Minister of Poland. He …

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  • Politics

    Georgia’s War on Weed Is Really a War on Youth

    by Giorgi Kajaia September 4, 2025
    September 4, 2025

    Seven years after legalizing personal use, Georgia is rolling back freedoms with sweeping new laws and harsher punishments. In 2018, the …

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  • Ayn RandPhilosophyPolitics

    Ayn Rand’s Ideas Come Alive: Inside the Immersive Experience Launching 2028

    by Ian Golan September 3, 2025
    September 3, 2025

    Will the philosophy of selfishness spread through a theme-park-style experience? What’s the best way to experience Ayn Rand? One can, of …

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  • Politics

    Red Streets, Queer Ghosts: A Libertarian’s Life on Via Stalingrado

    by Vinayakan Sajeev Beena September 3, 2025
    September 3, 2025

    “The amazing thing about Via Stalingrado is that the name has survived four decades of ideological turmoil.”— Simon Calder, The Independent, …

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  • Economics

    The Best Shot at Achieving Liberty in Our Lifetime?

    by Dr Wolf von Laer September 2, 2025
    September 2, 2025

    Amidst global uncertainty, Bitcoin offers hope. “Bitcoin fixes this,” a common response to the world’s woes, is more than a sharp …

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  • Economics

    The Welfare Paradox: How States Expand Welfare While Deepening Inequality

    by Manuel A. Alvarez August 31, 2025
    August 31, 2025

    In the grand narrative of our modern age, a comforting story is often told: the rise of the welfare state has …

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  • Society

    The Most Radical Thing You Can Do? Get Married

    by Anne Struffmann August 29, 2025
    August 29, 2025

    If I said that marriage is becoming irrelevant in the 21st century, few in the West would push back. Marriage is …

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  • Politics

    The Slippery Slope Axiom

    by Harrison Griffiths August 28, 2025
    August 28, 2025

    Harrison Griffiths on why we should never underestimate the far-reaching consequences of seemingly small rights violations. Whichever part of the world …

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  • Politics

    Grassroots Genius: The Unleashed Power That Can Green Africa

    by Trésor Daniel Mefire August 21, 2025
    August 21, 2025

    Last year, I watched a revolution unfold, not with banners or slogans, but in the quiet assurance of a woman’s smile …

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