The Freeman

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: