The Big Con of Social Security and Medicare by Jacob G. Hornberger April 14, 2020 Longtime supporters of The Future of Freedom Foundation know that we have always called for the repeal, not the reform, of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and all other socialist programs. In my introductory essay in the very first issue of our monthly journal — January 1990 — which was called Freedom Daily at that time, ...
The Banality of Evil in a Time of Coronavirus by Jacob G. Hornberger April 13, 2020 When Hannah Arendt wrote about the concept that she called “the banality of evil,” she was referring to people who are engaged in evil but who actually believe that are engaged in good. They aren’t evil people, Arendt said, just good people who are unwittingly engaged in evil. You couldn’t find a better term to ...
Is It Time for a New Direction? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 10, 2020 If Americans are not doing some serious soul-searching in the midst of this crisis, they need to start. Where America goes from here is not some sort of esoteric debate. What we do at this point has life or death consequences. Get it wrong, and suffer more death, suffering, and impoverishment. Get it right, and America moves ...
Those Dastardly Russians! by Jacob G. Hornberger April 9, 2020 Those dastardly Russians! They are at it again! What are they up to now? They are shipping medical supplies to the United States to help America deal with the Coronavirus crisis! What could be worse than that? Imagine: Trying to befriend us again. Who do they think they are? Those Russkies ...
Dogfish Head Hand Sanitizer by Jacob G. Hornberger April 8, 2020 As most everyone who reads my work knows by now, I hold that a free-market healthcare system is the only — repeat only — solution to the deadly coronavirus crisis and, in a broader sense, the overall decades-long, ongoing, never-ending healthcare crisis. One alternative is to continue with the system we have today, one in which ...
Faith and Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger April 7, 2020 One of the downsides to socialism is that it inculcates a mindset of dependency on government largess not only within the minds of dole recipients but also among other people. This is particularly true when the generations living at that time have been born and raised under socialist programs. When libertarians propose the repeal of these socialist ...
Only One Way Out of the Coronavirus Crisis by Jacob G. Hornberger April 6, 2020 The first book that The Future of Freedom Foundation published was entitled The Dangers of Socialized Medicine. Published in 1994, it was a little book consisting of various essays that FFF had published since our inception in January 1990. It was coedited by Richard Ebeling and me. At the time, Richard was the ...
Fear of Healthcare Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger April 3, 2020 Imagine that the United States had had a system of public churching for 230 years, a system in which the federal government owned and operated public churches alongside private churches. This state-run system of public churches would be run by government employees, including ministers, and be financed through taxation. Prayers and prayer books would be devised by ...
Will 401(k)s Be Nationalized? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 2, 2020 Amidst all the glee over Congress’s $2 trillion “stimulus” package, an important and relevant question naturally arises: Will the federal government end up nationalizing and confiscating people’s retirement accounts to pay for the ever-burgeoning expenses of the welfare-warfare state way of life? Prior to the coronavirus crisis, the federal government was spending $1 trillion more ...
Regime Change through the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2020 The Justice Department’s securing of a criminal indictment of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro reminds us that when it comes to the U.S. government’s regime-change operations, coups, invasions, sanctions, embargoes, and state-sponsored assassinations are not the only ways to achieve regime change. Another way is through a criminal indictment issued by a federal grand jury that deferentially accedes ...
Muhammad Ali’s Fight Against the Pentagon by Jacob G. Hornberger March 31, 2020 Like many home-bounders during this coronavirus crisis, I’m watching movies on Netflix and Amazon Prime. I just finished watching a biography of Muhammad Ali, who was one of the greatest boxers of all time, if not the greatest. Perhaps the biggest demarcation point in Ali’s life occurred when he refused to comply with a draft ...
We Were Soldiers by Jacob G. Hornberger March 30, 2020 Amidst all the death taking place by the coronavirus, last night I decided to rewatch We Were Soldiers, a great movie about the Vietnam War, during which the U.S. national-security establishment sent 58,000 American men to their deaths for nothing. The movie focuses on the very first battle of the Vietnam War — the battle ...
