Freedom in Motion

Saving the Republic, Resisting the Imperial Temptation

by Doug Bandow June 2, 2007

Transcript (PDF) Doug Bandow is a Washington-based political writer and policy analyst and Robert A. Taft Fellow with the American Conservative Defense Alliance. He served as a special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and as a senior policy analyst in the 1980 Reagan for President campaign. He has been widely published in leading newspapers and periodicals and has appeared on ...

Iran and Iraq: The Need for Pentagon Papers

by Daniel Ellsberg June 2, 2007

Transcript (PDF) Daniel Ellsberg was born in Detroit in 1931. After graduating from Harvard in 1952 with a B.A. summa cum laude in Economics, he studied for a year at King’s College, Cambridge University, on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. Between 1954 and 1957, Ellsberg spent three years in the U.S. Marine Corps, serving as rifle platoon leader, operations officer, and ...

Why Enemies of Liberty Love Lincoln

by Thomas J. DiLorenzo June 2, 2007

Transcript (PDF) Thomas J. DiLorenzo is professor of economics at Loyola College, Maryland, and a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of ten books, on subjects such as antitrust, group-interest politics, and interventionism generally.

The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed

by Ivan Eland June 2, 2007

Transcript (PDF) Ivan Eland is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute and Assistant Editor of The Independent Review. Dr. Eland is a graduate of Iowa State University and received an M.B.A. in applied economics and Ph.D. in national security policy from George Washington University. He has been Director of Defense Policy ...

The Importance of the Marketplace of Ideas‚ In Both War and Peace

by Richard M. Ebeling June 2, 2007

Transcript (PDF) Richard M. Ebeling, former Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College in Michigan, was named the President of the Foundation for Economic Education in May 2003. Richard discovered the freedom philosophy as a teenager while attending Hollywood High in Los Angeles, when he came across The Freeman and the writings of Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von ...

Ike Was Right and We Are Becoming What We Despise

by Robert Scheer June 1, 2007

Transcript (PDF) Robert Scheer covered presidential politics for The Los Angeles Times for thirty years. He is the author of six books, including: With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush, and Nuclear War; America after Nixon: The Age of the Multinationals; and coauthor of The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us about Iraq. He is a Clinical Professor of Communications at The ...

How We’re Restoring the Republic with Truth and Fearlessness

by Karen Kwiatkowski June 1, 2007

Transcript (PDF) Karen Kwiatkowski retired from the USAF in 2003 as a Lieutenant Colonel. She currently teaches college courses in American Government, and is currently employed as a high school biology and Earth Science teacher in western Virginia. She has an MA in Government from Harvard University, MS in Science Management from the University of Alaska, and has completed ...

War, Peace, and the Struggle for Liberty

by Justin Raimondo June 1, 2007

Transcript (PDF) Justin Raimondo is the editorial director of Antiwar.com, and a Senior Fellow at the Randolph Bourne Institute, in Atherton, California. His popular online column, “Behind the Headlines,” deals with foreign policy from a non-interventionist perspective. He is the author of the following books: -An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard (Prometheus Books, 2000) – ...

Two Views of Social Order: Conflict or Cooperation

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. June 1, 2007

Transcript (PDF) Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. is founder and president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Ala., and vice president of the Center for Libertarian Studies in Burlingame, Cal. He is the editor of six books, including The Irrepressible Rothbard., and author of thousands of articles appearing in journals, magazines, newspapers, as well as a commentator for radio ...

War and Leviathan: The Trick That Works Every Time

by Future of Freedom Foundation June 1, 2007

Transcript (PDF) Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and editor of The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Johns Hopkins University, and he has been a member of the faculty at the University of Washington (1968-83), Lafayette College (1983-89), and Seattle University ...

The Case for an America-First Foreign Policy

by Ralph Raico June 1, 2007

Transcript (PDF) Ralph Raico is originally from New York City. He received his B.A. from the City College of New York and his Ph. D. from the University of Chicago. He attended the Ludwig von Mises’s Seminar at NYU and translated Mises’s Liberalism. He is the Editor of the New Individualist Review and a Senior Editor of Inquiry Magazine. He ...

How Foreign Warring Subverts Freedom at Home

by James Bovard June 1, 2007

Transcript (PDF) James Bovard is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy (St. Martin’s/Palgrave, January 2006), and eight other books. He has written for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, New Republic, Reader’s Digest, and many other publications. His books have been translated into Spanish,Arabic, Japanese and Korean. The Wall Street Journal called Bovard “the roving ...