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In many ways the Cold War was a conflict of ideas. America and its allies stood for freedom; the Soviet Union, for oppression. They built walls to fence people in. We built towers to broadcast over those walls.

Winter is barely behind us, and gasoline prices are already rising. Worse, experts predict more price increases are right down the road. This poses two problems. First, higher energy prices mean families have less to spend on other necessities. Second, most of the money we spend for fuel ends up overseas, often supporting countries that don't wish us well.

The following chapter appeared in "The March of Freedom: Modern Classics in Conservative Thought," a publication of The Heritage Foundation featuring essays from 15 writers, scholars, and statesmen.

The free-market thinkers and ideas Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng are drawing on, as their mini-Budget begins a radical economic experiment.

  The world economy is “moderately free,” with another rise in economic liberty leading to a sixth annual global increase, according to the editors of the 2018 Index of Economic Freedom, released today by The Heritage Foundation.  

Now that the United States has become, temporarily, the greatestpower in the world, some of us recall an observation, half acentury ago, by the French writer Andre Siegfried: "The UnitedStates is the only country to have passed from barbarism todecadence without having known civilization."

Welfare for Artists

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle

Missile Defense: On the Move

The ABM Treaty, 1972-2001