Karl Marx and Marxism at Two Hundred by Richard M. Ebeling May 7, 2018 German translation Greek translation A specter continues to haunt the world, the specter of Karl Marx. Two hundred years ago, on May 5, 1818, the father of twentieth century totalitarian communism, the guidebook writer of revolutionary mass-murdering dictatorship, and the inspirer of disastrous socialist central planning was born in Trier, Germany. Looking ...
Dial T for Tyranny by John W. Whitehead May 4, 2018 “Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become ...
The People Who Really Deserve a Trump Pardon by Laurence M. Vance May 3, 2018 President Trump has issued three presidential pardons in the fifteen months he has been in office. According to Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution, the president “shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States except in cases of impeachment.” According to the case of Ex ...
The Libertarian Angle: Interventionism and the Welfare-Warfare State (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation May 2, 2018 After our sold-out conference in Charleston, Jacob and Richard address our current foreign policy that violates libertarian principles and creates more enemies than it defeats. Go to the podcast.
Why Kennedy Had to Be Removed by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 2018 The current, ongoing brouhaha over Russia helps to show explain why the U.S. national-security establishment removed President John F. Kennedy from office in the regime-change operation that took place on November 22, 1963. Yes, I know the official version that we are all expected to adhere to: that it is just inconceivable that the U.S. national-security establishment would initiate one ...
Your Tax Dollars Bankroll Afghan Child-Molesters by James Bovard May 1, 2018 Donald Trump was hailed by the media last August when he announced he was sending more U.S. troops to fight in Afghanistan. A Washington Post editorial praised his “principled realism” and saluted “a rare but welcome story of self-correction” (since Trump had portrayed Afghanistan as a lost cause when he was a presidential candidate). A New York Daily News ...
Mencken’s Plan, Read’s Rule by Laurence M. Vance May 1, 2018 H.L. Mencken and Leonard Read couldn’t have been more different, but each of them said some important things about life in a free society. Henry Louis Mencken (1880–1956) was born in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, lived nearly all of his life in the house he grew up in, and died in his bed. He was a third-generation Baltimorean. Although ...
Ralph Raico: Master Historian by Joseph R. Stromberg May 1, 2018 The death of historian Ralph Raico on December 13, 2016, robbed us of an erudite and insightful scholar whose long life made him witness to (and analyst of) massive changes in American society involving state building, imperialist wars, and loss of effective freedom. Born in 1936, Raico attended Ludwig von Mises’s famous New York seminar and translated Mises’s Liberalism ...
The Case against Schooling by George Leef May 1, 2018 The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Caplan (Princeton University Press, 2018, 395 pages). Almost every book on education policy (and I have read a great many of them) springs from the set of assumptions that education “experts” embrace: that schooling builds our stock of knowledge and ...
Is the U.S. Government Evil? You Tell Me by John W. Whitehead April 25, 2018 The greatest evil is not now done … in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. ...
The Libertarian Angle: The Socialism of Social Security (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation April 24, 2018 What works better--socialism or the free market? Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling apply libertarian principles to Social Security. Go to the podcast.
Come to Charleston! by Jacob G. Hornberger April 20, 2018 TICKETS TO THIS EVENT ARE SOLD OUT! If you have ever wanted an excuse to visit Charleston, South Carolina, one of the most beautiful cities in the United States, you have it now! The Ron Paul Institute and The Future of Freedom Foundation are teaming up to present an exciting, timely, and ...