Them Chinese Ain’t My Enemy by Jacob G. Hornberger April 18, 2025 One of the most fascinating aspects of President Trump’s tariff attack on China has been the acceptance among so many Americans that China is now our official enemy or, if you prefer more benign imperialist terms, our “opponent,” “adversary,” “rival,” or “competitor.” After all, wasn’t it just recently that our official enemy was Russia? Even when Trump was ...
Immigration Controls or Liberty? Which Will It Be? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 17, 2025 With his nationwide immigration crackdown, President Trump is unwittingly providing a tremendous service to the libertarian movement. He is demonstrating perfectly a point that I have been making for the past 35 years here at The Future of Freedom Foundation: that America’s system of immigration controls is incompatible with libertarianism. For all too long, libertarians who support immigration ...
The United States of El Salvador by Jacob G. Hornberger April 16, 2025 In light of President Trump’s newfound friend and ally Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, who has labeled himself as the “world’s coolest dictator,” it is worth asking whether El Salvador’s legal system will now serve as a model for the United States. Consider the right of habeas corpus, which legal scholars since the 13th century have ...
The Circumvention of Habeas Corpus by Jacob G. Hornberger April 15, 2025 The most profound and ominous aspect of the controversy surrounding the deportation of Kilmar Ábrego García to El Salvador is that the Trump administration has figured out a way to circumvent the right of habeas corpus, not just for foreigners but also for the American people. Why is that important? Because without habeas corpus, a right that stretches ...
America the Ugly by Jacob G. Hornberger April 14, 2025 President Trump might have inadvertently come up with the perfect solution to America’s decades-old, ongoing, never-ending, perpetual immigration crisis. That solution entails making America so ugly that foreigners will no longer want to come here. After all, that’s what North Korea did. Like the United States, North Korea militarized and sealed its southern border, established a police state, ...
Is Free Trade the Catalyst that Can Lead Us to Freedom? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 11, 2025 Ever since I founded The Future of Freedom Foundation, I have never lost hope of achieving a genuinely free society in my lifetime. By “genuine” I do not mean reforming and improving the welfare-warfare state, which has come to be defined as “freedom” within conservative and right-wing libertarian circles. By “genuine” I mean the dismantling, not the reform, ...
Great News on Free Trade! by Jacob G. Hornberger April 10, 2025 Immediately after launching his trade war, President Trump surrendered to the “enemy.” Well, okay, it wasn’t a complete surrender. Let’s call it a partial surrender in the form of a unilateral 90-day cease fire. That’s good news, of course, to everyone in the world, including Americans. Well, except for the Chinese people, against whom Trump has decided to ...
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Mexico? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 9, 2025 According to press accounts, the Trump administration, which some right-wing libertarians have humorously described as being “antiwar,” is now contemplating dropping bombs on Mexico. Yes, real bombs that kill people and destroy things, just like the bombs that U.S. national-security state officials used to kill people in Iraq, which, like Mexico, never attacked or invaded the United States. ...
Treating People Like Horse Dung by Jacob G. Hornberger April 8, 2025 One of the things that fascinates me about Americans living today is the willingness of many of them to treat immigrants like horse dung. I just don’t get it. No, I’m not saying that they treat people like that directly. I’m saying that they support and even get excited about how the U.S. government treats immigrants like horse ...
Trump’s Third Term by Jacob G. Hornberger April 7, 2025 The pundits are having a difficult time understanding how President Trump would fulfill his expressed desire to serve a third term as president. Some of them have fallen back on the possibility that he is joking and just trolling his critics. Others have come up with unlikely scenarios for achieving a third term. For example, one commentator asked ...
A Powerful Government and a Weak Nation by Jacob G. Hornberger April 3, 2025 For many Americans, it is an article of faith that a vast and powerful federal government equals a great and strong nation. Actually, it’s the exact opposite. The more powerful the federal government, the weaker the nation. Contrariwise, the smaller and weaker the federal government, the more powerful the nation. Part of the problem here is that many ...
The Mainstream Media Was Scared to Investigate the JFK Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger April 2, 2025 It’s not difficult to understand why the mainstream media failed and refused to investigate the JFK assassination. To understand the reason, just think about how Columbia University and the big law firms Paul, Weiss and Skadden, Arps have capitulated after being subjected to pressure from President Trump. Why wouldn’t the mainstream media behave in the same manner ...
