Libertarianism

The Libertarian Angle: Interventionism and the Welfare-Warfare State (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation May 2, 2018

After our sold-out conference in Charleston, Jacob and Richard address our current foreign policy that violates libertarian principles and creates more enemies than it defeats. Go to the podcast.

Mencken’s Plan, Read’s Rule

by Laurence M. Vance May 1, 2018

H.L. Mencken and Leonard Read couldn’t have been more different, but each of them said some important things about life in a free society. Henry Louis Mencken (1880–1956) was born in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, lived nearly all of his life in the house he grew up in, and died in his bed. He was a third-generation Baltimorean. Although ...

Ralph Raico: Master Historian

by Joseph R. Stromberg May 1, 2018

The death of historian Ralph Raico on December 13, 2016, robbed us of an erudite and insightful scholar whose long life made him witness to (and analyst of) massive changes in American society involving state building, imperialist wars, and loss of effective freedom. Born in 1936, Raico attended Ludwig von Mises’s famous New York seminar and translated Mises’s Liberalism ...

The Libertarian Angle: The Socialism of Social Security (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation April 24, 2018

What works better--socialism or the free market? Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling apply libertarian principles to Social Security. Go to the podcast.

The Libertarian Angle: Syria and the RPI/FFF Conference (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation April 17, 2018

Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the recent attack on Syria as well as our upcoming conference in Charleston, South Carolina with co-sponsors The Ron Paul Institute. Go to the podcast.

Libertarian Angle: Trump’s Trade War Folly (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation April 11, 2018

Join Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling as they explore the benefits of free trade and the folly of tariffs and protectionism. Go to the podcast.

The Libertarian Angle: Separate School & State

by Future of Freedom Foundation April 3, 2018

What is the best way to educate children? Who decides? Join Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling as they explore. Go to the podcast.

The Libertarian Angle: Free Banking and Bitcoin

by Future of Freedom Foundation March 27, 2018

Special guest Larry White, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and professor of economics at George Mason University, joins Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling to discuss Bitcoin and what a free market in money would look like. Go to the podcast https://libertarianangle.libsyn.com/.

The Libertarian Angle: Reject Foreign Interventionism

by Future of Freedom Foundation March 13, 2018

Special guest Doug Bandow, senior fellow a The Cato Institute, talks foreign intervention with Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling. Go to the podcast.

Libertarian Angle: Trump’s Tariff Folly (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation March 7, 2018

Do tariffs benefit a society, or is free trade the great engine of productivity and liberty? Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss President Trump's proposal for tariffs on steel and aluminum. Go to the podcast.

The Libertarian Angle: The Case against Education (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation February 22, 2018

How much value should be placed on a bachelor's degree? Special guest Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, joins Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling to discuss his new book The Case against Education. Due to a technical glitch, the video quality of this episode is poor, but we ...

Trump, Free Speech, and Libertarianism

by Scott McPherson February 1, 2018

There is a modest amount of crossover between populism and libertarianism — as there is between libertarianism and other political philosophies — but leftists and progressives should hesitate before lumping us into the same category. For the most part populists are just big-government conservatives — which means they have more in common with the political Left than with us ...