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December 2025

The Big Myth
The myth is widespread and deeply rooted that big business and big government are rivals—that big business wants small government.
 • Tim Carney
The Republic of Garages
Peter Gietl argues that free enterprise is born not in boardrooms but in garages and basements, where ordinary people take risks, create, and turn…
 • Peter Gietl
The Republic of Garages
The American dream has never been built in boardrooms.
 • Peter Gietl
Thomas Jefferson's Mistake is a Warning to Us All
John Papola warns that revolutions built on unconstrained visions of man inevitably lead to tyranny, while America’s founders preserved liberty by…
 • John Papola
Thomas Jefferson's Mistake is a Warning to Us All
As we head into the 250th anniversary year of our Declaration of Independence, it’s worth revisiting another revolution that looms surprisingly large in…
 • John Papola
Entrepreneurship and the Spirit of Adventure
Aaron Renn argues, prosperity does not come from government but from people who take initiative, embrace responsibility, and pursue opportunity with…
 • Aaron M. Renn
Entrepreneurship and the Spirit of Adventure
Many people today argue that we need to restore manufacturing to boost the economic fortunes of the working class.
 • Aaron M. Renn
America’s Real Business
Henry Ford and Rich DeVos both championed hard work, personal responsibility, and free enterprise—arguing that government cannot create prosperity, only…
 • Doug DeVos
America’s Real Business
Excerpted from My Life and Work by Samuel Crowther and Henry Ford, and Believe! 50th Anniversary Edition by Rich and Doug DeVos
 • The Believe! Journal

November 2025

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