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End the Fed

by George Leef January 1, 2017

Who Needs the Fed? by John Tamny (Encounter Books, 2016); 224 pages. I really don’t like to start a review with a quibble, but in this instance, I must. My quibble is with the title of the book, which makes it seem as though it is aimed only at knocking out support for the Federal Reserve ...

How Would the Baby in a Manger Fare in the American Police State?

by John W. Whitehead December 22, 2016

“Jesus is too much for us. The church’s later treatment of the gospels is one long effort to rescue Jesus from ‘extremism.’” —author Gary Wills, What Jesus Meant Jesus was good. He was caring. He had powerful, profound things to say—things that would change how we view people, alter government policies and change the world. He went around ...

The Libertarian Angle: Trump’s Cabinet Picks, Part 3

by Future of Freedom Foundation December 21, 2016

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about the choices that president-elect Donald Trump has been making for his cabinet. Go to the podcast.

Help FFF Spread the Ideas of Liberty

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 20, 2016

Before I was to deliver a speech at a recent conference in Virginia, a young woman introduced herself and told me that a quotation of mine, which she had read on the Internet when she was in the 8th grade, had shifted the course of her life by leading her to explore libertarianism. She was so struck by the ...

Lew Rockwell: Time to End the War on Drugs

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. December 20, 2016

Watch Lew Rockwell present his perspectives on why America needs to end the war on drugs. This presentation is part of FFF’s Drug War Video Project, whose aim is to accelerate the end of this immoral and destructive government program.

Economic Ideas: Adam Smith on Free Trade, Crony Capitalism, and the Benefits from Commercial Society

by Richard M. Ebeling December 19, 2016

Adam Smith’s central contribution to economic understanding was surely his demonstration that under an institutional arrangement of individual liberty, property rights, and voluntary exchange the self-interested conduct of market participants could be shown to be consistent with a general betterment of the human condition. The emergence of a social system of division of labor makes men interdependent for the necessities, ...

How to Beat the Post-Election Blues

by John W. Whitehead December 16, 2016

“I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I’m not happy. I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel.” ―  Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Christmas I keep waiting to encounter the “kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant” Christmastime environment that Charles Dickens describes in A Christmas Carol: “when men and women seem by one consent ...

The Libertarian Angle: Trump’s Cabinet Picks, Part 2

by Future of Freedom Foundation December 14, 2016

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about the choices that president-elect Donald Trump has been making for his cabinet. Go to the podcast.

Scott McPherson: Time to End the War on Drugs

by Scott McPherson December 13, 2016

Watch FFF policy adviser Scott McPherson present his perspectives on why America needs to end the war on drugs. This presentation is part of FFF’s Drug War Video Project, whose aim is to accelerate the end of this immoral and destructive government program.

Economic Ideas: Adam Smith on Moral Sentiments, Division of Labor and the Invisible Hand

by Richard M. Ebeling December 12, 2016

Much of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations is an attack on mercantilism. Adam Smith is, without doubt, the most famous member of that group of Scottish Moral Philosophers who contributed to the development of social and economic understanding of the market economy and how economic liberty makes human ...

Power to the People: John Lennon’s Legacy Lives On

by John W. Whitehead December 9, 2016

“You gotta remember, establishment, it’s just a name for evil. The monster doesn’t care whether it kills all the students or whether there’s a revolution. It’s not thinking logically, it’s out of control.” — John Lennon (1969) Militant nonviolent resistance works. Peaceful, prolonged protests work. Mass movements with huge numbers of participants work. Yes, America, it is possible to use occupations ...

Trump Sends Property Rights Up in Flames

by Laurence M. Vance December 8, 2016

Alongside of Catholicism and Protestantism, the primary religion in the United States is not Islam or Judaism but the American civic religion. The Pledge of Allegiance is the creed of this religion and the American flag is its chief symbol. In the American civic religion, the worst sin that an American can commit is to refuse to pledge allegiance to ...