People open tiny businesses in Japan because it is both legal and easy. @ad_mastro on the zoning, licensing, and red tape standing between Americans and their own version of it:

The freedom to choose your own life — without making it a statement or sharing it online — might be the most underrated kind. @LisaDeP on Gen X, the tradwife trend, and the women quietly doing it without an audience:

Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner wrote one of the most enduring defenses of individual responsibility ever published in 1953. A Freeman Classic that reads like it was written this week:

The union of states teetered on the edge of dissolution. And then the same men who built the Articles decided the time had come for something better. Lawrence Reed on America's forgotten first constitution, and what it took to hold a new nation together:

The same culture that mourns the loss of teenage summer jobs often applauds the policies most likely to affect them. @allenmendenhall on the teenage summer job, and what’s behind its disappearance:

The concept most associated with Karl Marx today barely appeared in his major published works. It was rediscovered from unpublished notebooks in the 1960s. @PhilWMagness on the surprisingly accidental history of Marxist alienation theory:

Today is Tocqueville's birthday. He's remembered as democracy's great prophet. But his real project was simpler: teaching readers how to be free. @willwatsonog on Tocqueville, Malesherbes, and the deeper question behind Democracy in America:

100 million sharks are killed by humans every year. Yet one shark fin offshore and a news helicopter is dispatched. Nicole James on whether we should actually be scared:

Everlane was built on radical transparency and ethical sourcing. It just recently sold to Shein. @dr_josephsonon The Body Shop, Everlane, and what markets are actually telling us: