Freedom Daily Archive

Let’s End the Cold War Racket

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2022

One of the most under-reported aspects of President John F. Kennedy’s term in office was his decision to end the Cold War and establish peaceful and friendly relations with the Soviet Union, Cuba, and the rest of the communist world. In 1963 America, that was a remarkable — and highly dangerous — thing for any president to do. After all, ...

The Latest Media Assault on Freedom

by James Bovard April 1, 2022

Prominent journalists are calling for the media to champion a “pro-democracy” bias in how they portray politicians and government agencies. But tub-thumping for democracy — or at least for politicians who claim to be pro-democracy — is a poor substitute for exposing the proliferation of government abuses. Freedom will be the victim if journalists grasp a new pretext to ...

There Is No Federal Solution

by Laurence M. Vance April 1, 2022

The twentieth century in the United States can certainly be characterized by the massive increase in federal solutions to right every wrong, correct every injustice, and fix every problem, real or imaginary. This mentality is what gave us things like the New Deal, Social Security, Prohibition, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Civil Rights Act, the Fair Deal, the ...

Can Capitalism Survive? 80 Years After Schumpeter’s Answer

by Richard M. Ebeling April 1, 2022

Eighty years ago, in the midst of the Second World War, Austrian-born economist Joseph A. Schumpeter published one of his most famous books, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942). A central question that he asked and tried to answer was, “Can Capitalism Survive?” His basic conclusion was, “No, I do not think it can” (p. 61). He was (forlornly) confident ...

The Power to Assassinate

by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2022

The power to assassinate has become so deeply entrenched within the national-security branch of the federal government that hardly anyone gives it a second thought. State-sponsored assassinations now occur on a regular basis, especially in the Middle East. Most everyone, especially the mainstream press, treats them in a nonchalant, ho-hum way. Hardly anyone questions where this extraordinary power to ...

Corrupt Federal Statistics Cover Endless Cons

by James Bovard March 1, 2022

Federal agencies don’t count what politicians don’t want to know. President Joe Biden and other Democrats perennially invoke “science and data” to sanctify all their COVID-19 mandates and policies. But the same shenanigans and willful omissions that have characterized COVID data have perennially permeated other federal programs. The rule of experts? During his update on his Winter COVID Campaign in December, ...

The Libertarian Brand

by Laurence M. Vance March 1, 2022

While U.S. presidential elections are held every four years, U.S. senators serve a six-year term, and members of the U.S. House of Representatives are elected every two years. A midterm election is an election where the entire House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate are up for election, but the president is not. These elections always occur two ...

Paternalists Plan a New International Political Consensus

by Richard M. Ebeling March 1, 2022

The political paternalists and the social engineers are giddy with hope and anticipation. They are confident that their day has, once again, arrived. The era of even bigger government has returned, and any remaining free-market system is simply out of date. They are full of promises and plans to set the world right, as long as they and the ...

How Government Meddling Ruined Higher Education, Part 2

by George Leef March 1, 2022

Part 1 | Part 2 With the expansion of federal loans, the cost of attending college began to increase dramatically. College administrators realized that they could charge students more, since most of them were availing themselves of money that the government dangled in front of them. Tuition and fees rose much faster than the rate of inflation. President Reagan’s ...

9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq, Part 2

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2022

Part 1 | Part 2 Prior to the 9/11 attacks, The Future of Freedom Foundation was publishing articles warning that the U.S. government’s deadly and destructive interventionism in the Middle East would likely end up producing a retaliatory terrorist attack on American soil. We weren’t the only ones. The noted analyst Chalmers Johnson’s excellent book Blowback: The Costs and ...

Liberals’ Love Affair with Leviathan

by James Bovard February 1, 2022

The election of Joe Biden as president magically transformed all federal agencies, ensuring that their iron fists no longer posed any peril to the American people. Or at least that seems to be what many Biden supporters, liberals, and Democrats now believe. I stumbled upon that new catechism on a cold morning last November. I ambled online after breakfast and ...

Time to Put Uncle Sam on a Diet

by Laurence M. Vance February 1, 2022

A report issued a decade ago by the National Cancer Institute on the status of the American diet found that “three out of four Americans don’t eat a single piece of fruit in a given day, and nearly nine out of ten don’t reach the minimum recommended daily intake of vegetables.” The report concluded that “nearly the entire U.S. ...