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RealClear Radio Hour: Populism’s Critic & Supranational Heresy

  • By: William Frezza
  • 03/21/2016

This week on RealClear Radio Hour we take issue with political movements in Latin America and across Europe. I caught up with Gloria Alvarez…

U.S. News & World Report

Apple Employees: Just Say No

  • By: William Frezza
  • 03/18/2016

The FBI is putting relentless pressure on Apple to hack the encrypted iPhone recovered from the San Bernardino shooters. For thwarting ongoing efforts to force…

Law and Litigation

Blog

RealClear Radio Hour: Free the Market: Ending the Corporate Welfare Racket

  • By: William Frezza
  • 03/14/2016

This week on RealClear Radio Hour we tackle insidious corporate cronyism and what can be done to stop it. At the 2016 Conservative Political…

Blog

RealClear Radio Hour: Unauthorized Climate Treaty & Biofuel Scandal

  • By: William Frezza
  • 03/07/2016

This week on RealClear Radio Hour we cover the ever important issue of energy and environment. As the Paris Climate treaty continues to cause…

Watchdog.org

Have conservatives been hypocritical on cronyism?

  • By: William Frezza
  • 03/04/2016

Watchdog.org reports on a CPAC panel discussion on cronyism moderated by Bill Frezza.  Bill Frezza, host of the Real Clear Radio Hour, kicked…

Business and Government

Blog

RealClear Radio Hour: Millennial Politics & Choice

  • By: William Frezza
  • 02/29/2016

Young people, political myths, and curating choice. This week on RealClear Radio Hour we’re dig into a myriad of topics from the democratic socialist fad…

Blog

RealClear Radio Hour: Ed Latimore & Ted Frank

  • By: William Frezza
  • 02/22/2016

On this week’s RealClear Radio Hour: A boy from the projects grows up to become an undefeated heavyweight, and a… physicist? Ed “Black Magic” Latimore,…

Blog

RealClear Radio Hour: Government Monopoly & Public Parks

  • By: William Frezza
  • 02/15/2016

This week on RealClear Radio Hour we’re talking about big government. From its monopolistic funding and agenda-driven control of Big Science to its mismanagement of…

Blog

RealClear Radio Hour: Budding CEOs and PC University

  • By: William Frezza
  • 02/09/2016

This week on RealClear Radio Hour my guests cover two topics that lie at the heart of how we educate our children: How we can…

Blog

RealClear Radio Hour: Greek Goodbye & Cuban Revolutionary

  • By: William Frezza
  • 02/01/2016

This week on RealClear Radio Hour we discuss Greece and Cuba, two countries whose vastly different governments have inflicted similar human suffering and struggle. My…

Blog

RealClear Radio Hour: Endangered Fishermen & Hudson Valley Extinction

  • By: William Frezza
  • 01/26/2016

This week’s RealClear Radio Hour brings a blizzard of content directly to your listening device. As those on the east coast recover from the dizzying…

Blog

RealClear Radio Hour: Post-Serpico Policing & Prohibition

  • By: William Frezza
  • 01/19/2016

This week on RealClear Radio Hour: a sharecropper’s grandson whose father was a police officer and a 34-year police veteran turned against the failed war…

Blog

RealClear Radio Hour: Reforming to Save & Mom vs. Department of Labor

  • By: William Frezza
  • 01/11/2016

This week on RealClear Radio Hour: common sense reforms, the cost of government policy mistakes, and an entrepreneurial mother taking on the Department of Labor.

Blog

RealClear Radio Hour: Humanity First and Family Medicine Man

  • By: William Frezza
  • 01/04/2016

On this week’s RealClear Radio Hour we cover sensitive issues surrounding race and class, as well as the changing landscape for primary medical care across…

Blog

RealClear Radio Hour: Legacies of Empire & A New Magna Carta

  • By: William Frezza
  • 12/28/2015

The modern regulatory state, created to reign in so-called “robber barons,” has come to be ruled by autonomous agencies acting like “barons in monarchies.” This…

Blog

RealClear Radio Hour: Mom, Boogey Man, and Popehat

  • By: William Frezza
  • 12/21/2015

Legal and cultural restrictions on choice and speech are ever growing in today’s society. From chilling speech codes on college campuses to crippling laws on…

Blog

RealClear Radio Hour: The Miracle of New Zealand

  • By: William Frezza
  • 12/14/2015

This week marks a special occasion for RealClear Radio Hour: our 100th Episode! Over the course of what will soon be two years on the air,…

Blog

RealClear Radio Hour: Polarizing Media & Intellectual Safety

  • By: William Frezza
  • 12/07/2015

Across the country, college campuses have been the center of free speech controversy. Unrest among students has triggered massive news coverage but it appears mainstream…

Blog

RealClear Radio Hour: Rocker Conservationist and Apocalypse Averted

  • By: William Frezza
  • 11/30/2015

As we approach the COP-21 climate conference in Paris this December, RealClear Radio Hour brings our focus back to the only sustainable solutions for environmental concerns:…

Blog

RealClear Radio Hour: Dodging The Devil’s Bargain, Appreciating Crowdsourced Evolution

  • By: William Frezza
  • 11/23/2015

Eliminating extreme poverty around the world has been a driving moral force for western civilization throughout modern history, but in recent decades that mission has…

Blog

Churchill: A “Foolish Moth”, and FDR’s Raw Deal

  • By: William Frezza
  • 11/09/2015

On RealClear Radio Hour this week, we return to the era of the greatest generation taking a critical look at two of its towering icons,…

Blog

RealClear Radio Hour: Modern Environmentalists

  • By: William Frezza
  • 11/02/2015

From EPA’s new ozone rule to local city halls “going green,” modern environmentalism has become an omnipresent force in America. This week I sit down…

The Daily Caller

Macroeconomics Is The Root Of All Error

  • By: William Frezza
  • 09/01/2015

Will Fed chief Janet Yellen pull the trigger to raise interest rates in September or not? Only the soothsayers at Jackson Hole know for…

The Daily Caller

When The Price Of Money Is Wrong, The Price of Everything Is Wrong

  • By: William Frezza
  • 08/26/2015

The stock market has not gone crazy. It is desperately trying to go uncrazy. In a healthy, free, and flourishing economy, prices act as unbiased…

WND

The Obama-Clinton Cloward-Piven legacy

  • By: William Frezza
  • 07/19/2015

The WND cites CEI`s Bill Frezza on Obama`s welfare reforms:    In his Forbes article, “Deconstructing Obamanomics: What is the Real Goal?,” Bill Frezza, an MIT…

Business and Government

Daily Caller

We Are All Greeks Now. Does Totalitarianism Lie Ahead?

  • By: William Frezza
  • 07/07/2015

The Greek drama has entered its final act, after lingering on far too long. There was never any doubt Greece couldn’t repay its sovereign…

Daily Caller

How Ideas Of The Family Evolve Alongside Culture, Politics, And Law

  • By: William Frezza
  • 06/29/2015

Ever since widespread access to birth control and abortion made biological motherhood optional, and the welfare state severely eroded the economic responsibilities of fatherhood, Western…

Daily Caller

Will Democracy Drown In A Sea Of Sophistry?

  • By: William Frezza
  • 06/02/2015

For the past year and a half I’ve hosted a weekly radio show where I interview guests about a wide range of subjects, giving…

Daily Caller

Congratulations, New Grads, And Welcome To Indentured Servitude!

  • By: William Frezza
  • 05/20/2015

Congratulations, Class of 2015! The diploma you hold in your hands today is the most expensive thing you’ll ever own. Why? Because you will surely…

Daily Caller

Title IX Expansion, Coming Soon To An Elementary School Near You

  • By: William Frezza
  • 05/12/2015

Conflict, consternation, and litigation has spread across college campuses ever since a 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter from the Obama administration’s Office of Civil Rights…

The Daily Caller

Having Feasted On Microsoft, Eurocrats Go For Their Next Prey

  • By: William Frezza
  • 01/08/2015

European Union bureaucrats have amassed such a mountain of job-killing rules — from economic to fiscal to monetary and regulatory — that they’ve made successful…

The Daily Caller

What Will Happen After The Latest Keynesian Bubble Bursts?

  • By: William Frezza
  • 01/06/2015

As citizens watch their home values, IRAs, and 401(k)s plunge and a new wave of recession and unemployment ensues, populist demagogues will take to the…

Forbes

John Tierney Channels Julian Simon, Debunks Environmental Gloom and Doom

  • By: William Frezza
  • 06/30/2014

The idea that we’re running out of natural resources seems obvious, though untrue. How can that be? Resolving this conundrum requires understanding why human ingenuity…

Products

Forget Sharia, The New Egyptian Constitution Enshrines Socialism

  • By: William Frezza
  • 06/26/2014

It isn’t every day that the world gets to watch the birth of a new constitutional democracy. As the political drama in the land of…

Forbes

The Rise Of Uber Should Have Politicians, Regulators And Crony Capitalists Shaking With Fear

  • By: William Frezza
  • 06/23/2014

Consumers love choice and convenience, especially when it comes to getting from point A to point B. So as Uber takes the world by storm,…

Automobiles and Roads

Forbes

Can Ralph Nader Get Progressives and Libertarians to Make Common Cause?

  • By: William Frezza
  • 06/16/2014

Eighty years old and still full of piss and vinegar, Ralph Nader should perhaps add honey to his repertoire, as he attempts to woo libertarians,…

Business and Government

Forbes

Studying the History of Feminism Might Save Feminists from Themselves

  • By: William Frezza
  • 06/09/2014

The advance of women’s rights is one of Western Civilization’s greatest triumphs. Yet, in many developing countries, women are still treated like second-class citizens. So…

Law and Litigation

Forbes

There’s A Way To Pay Off America’s Budget Deficits That Is Easy, And Wholly Painless

  • By: William Frezza
  • 06/02/2014

Whatever your views on the role of government, one thing is clear: There will be no way to pay for it if the economy doesn’t…

Business and Government

Forbes

Lumber Union Protectionists Incited SWAT Raid On My Factory, Says Gibson Guitar CEO

  • By: William Frezza
  • 05/26/2014

“Henry. A SWAT team from Homeland Security just raided our factory!” “What? This must be a joke.” “No this is really serious. We got guys…

Lands and Wildlife

Forbes

“Worst Mom in the World” Urges You to Set Your Children Free

  • By: William Frezza
  • 05/19/2014

“Go play outside. Come back when the street lights come on.” I can’t tell you how many times my Mom said that to me. And…

Health and Safety

Forbes

Government Employee Unions Tee Up California’s Bankruptcy

  • By: William Frezza
  • 05/16/2014

Half a Billion Dollars. That’s how much the California Teachers Association and the powerful Service Employees International Union have spent on California politics since 2000.

Banking and Finance

Forbes

How to Ease the Crushing Costs of Federal Regulations

  • By: William Frezza
  • 05/02/2014

“You can look at the federal budget and see what we spend. There is nothing like that with respect to regulations. I tabulate the annual…

Business and Government

Forbes

Vietnam’s Road Back From Serfdom

  • By: William Frezza
  • 04/25/2014

We dropped bombs on their heads, defoliated their forests, and destroyed their villages “in order to save them.” We tore apart the fabric of…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Forbes

Common Core Razes Charter School Standards

  • By: William Frezza
  • 04/18/2014

A battle is raging between those who would challenge our public school monopolies and those who wish to nationalize school curricula. There is much more…

Law and Litigation

Forbes

Dueling Visions For Taxing Times: Grover Norquist v. Robert Reich

  • By: William Frezza
  • 04/11/2014

This is why I got into radio: A pairing of guests representing two competing visions for the nation’s economic future, each making their case in…

Banking and Finance

Forbes

Will Republican Culture Warriors Snatch Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory?

  • By: William Frezza
  • 04/04/2014

I was recently invited to speak at the annual Conservative Leadership Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, a regional red-meat gathering of the conservative faithful trying to…

Business and Government

Forbes

Lights Out For Earth Hour

  • By: William Frezza
  • 03/28/2014

You would think that demonizing electricity would be a tough sell to a populace devoted to smartphones, gaming consoles, DVRs, flat screen TVs, iPhones, tablets,…

Energy and Environment

Forbes

Can Booming Dubai Remind America How To Grow Again?

  • By: William Frezza
  • 03/21/2014

If you despair for America, visit Dubai. If you fear our nation’s best days are behind us, visit Dubai. If you believe American entrepreneurship is…

Business and Government

Forbes

Can Silicon Valley Sic Schumpeterian Disruption On Bloated City Governments?

  • By: William Frezza
  • 03/14/2014

It’s one thing to ship your tax money off to Washington, resigned to the fact that you have little control over the distant bureaucracy that…

Business and Government

Forbes

The Way It Was Under Walter Cronkite: We Were Starved For Media

  • By: William Frezza
  • 03/07/2014

“And that’s the way it is,” intoned Walter Cronkite, the “most trusted man in America,” at the end of each news broadcast. It seems…

Business and Government

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