Freedom Daily Archive

Prostitution and a Free Society

by Laurence M. Vance November 1, 2024

Libertarianism is based on the timeless principles of individual liberty, commercial freedom, property rights, and a government strictly limited to the protection of these things. Therefore, libertarianism neither shies away from hard topics nor has to adjust its principles to remain relevant or keep up with the times. Consequently, libertarianism is viewed by some as a radical philosophy both ...

The Election Is About Big Government Getting Bigger

by Richard M. Ebeling November 1, 2024

Shortly after this article is published, we will know the outcome of the 2024 presidential campaign. But whether the winner is one or the other of the two major political party candidates, one thing is certain: the intrusive and heavy hand of government will continue to have sway over our lives after the victor is sworn in as the ...

The New Deal as the Great Reset, Part 1

by Robert E. Wright November 1, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 A conservative opinion outlet recently ran an op-ed entitled “Conserving the New Deal,” which asserted that President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s policies were “great,” as in something good that conservatives should emulate. The New Deal was indeed “great,” but in the same sense as the Great War and the Great Depression were — a big ...

The Biggest Mistake America Has Ever Made

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2024

The biggest mistake America has ever made since the nation’s founding was the conversion of the federal government from a limited-government republic to a national-security state. If the American people are ever going to achieve a genuinely free society, a necessary prerequisite is the dismantling of the national-security establishment and the restoration of America’s founding governmental system of a ...

The Most Dangerous Democratic Delusion

by James Bovard October 1, 2024

Democracy is a system of government under which the people are automatically liable for whatever the government does to them. Many of the most deadly errors of contemporary political thinking stem from the notion that in a democracy the government is the people, so there is scant reason to worry about protecting citizens from the government. Throughout western history, tyrants ...

Questions That Only Libertarians Are Asking

by Laurence M. Vance October 1, 2024

Although on the surface, Democrats, liberals, socialists, and progressives seem to be ideological opposites of Republicans, conservatives, nationalists, and constitutionalists, and although both groups are often contrasted with moderates, populists, centrists, and independents, in reality, every one of these groups has something in common: their opposition to libertarianism. Libertarianism Libertarianism is the philosophy that says people should be free from individual, ...

Classical Liberalism versus Modern Unlimited Democracy

by Richard M. Ebeling October 1, 2024

Election years have the tendency to bring out the worst in political rhetoric. Both major political parties color their opponents as dangers to the foundations of American democracy and even the world in general. I remember seeing on television in 1964 the famous “Daisy” political ad with a small girl holding a flower being vaporized in a huge nuclear ...

Liberty Lost

by George Leef October 1, 2024

As the United States steadily succumbs to omnipotent government, it is important to look back at our early history to see how much Americans accomplished when they were free to use their time, talents, and property to solve the problems they faced. Many people today are habituated to turning to government for laws and programs to deal with almost ...

JFK: A Fraudulent Autopsy and a Fraudulent Film

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2024

The following is a nonverbatim transcript of a talk I gave at the annual PorcFest festival in Lancaster, New Hampshire, in June 2024. In the 1990s, the Assassination Records Review Board discovered the existence of a woman named Saundra Spencer, who told a remarkable story to the ARRB. On the weekend of the assassination of President Kennedy, Spencer was a ...

Supreme Court Unleashes Censors and Betrays Democracy

by James Bovard September 1, 2024

On the eve of the first presidential candidate debate, the Supreme Court gave a huge boost to Joe Biden to help him “fix” the 2024 election with maybe its worst decision of the year. It remains to be seen whether the court’s refusal to stop federal censorship will be a wooden stake in the credibility of American democracy. The court ...

Can Huey Long Save America?

by Laurence M. Vance September 1, 2024

I occasionally read a writer and podcaster known as a conspiracy researcher who writes on a variety of subjects. Donald Jeffries is all over the map politically (reformer, idealist, libertarian, classical liberal, populist, and cultural conservative), has published several books, and has written a Substack column since 2021. His name is not important because it is his ideas, which ...

Ludwig von Mises on Human Action and the Free Society

by Richard M. Ebeling September 1, 2024

Seventy-five years ago, on September 14, 1949, Yale University Press published Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action: A Treatise on Economics. Almost 900 pages in length, it soon became recognized as one of the major works in economics in the twentieth century. Not that this recognition was felt in the economics profession of the time. Few reviews appeared in the professional ...