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There Is No Right to Read a Newspaper

by Laurence M. Vance August 10, 2018

The newspaper industry has been waning over the past few decades. Dozens of newspapers have folded since the advent of the Internet. According to the Pew Research Center, local newspaper circulation has declined by 27 percent over the last fifteen years and the number of statehouse reporters has fallen by nearly 40 percent. The latest victim is ...

The JFK Assassination, Episode 7

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 10, 2018

In this series of short videos, FFF president Jacob Hornberger summarizes and details the circumstantial evidence pointing toward the U.S. national-security state as the orchestrator of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Watch the entire series. Go to the podcast.

Richard M. Ebeling – Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy

by Richard M. Ebeling August 9, 2018

This speech was part of a program entitled "Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy" that was presented in Charleston, South Carolina on April 29, 2018. Our country is enmeshed in permanent, ongoing foreign wars and interventions. The results of foreign interventionism have been catastrophic, not only in terms of massive death and destruction abroad, but also ...

Libertarian Lessons: Immigration

by Scott McPherson August 8, 2018

Individuals are autonomous beings with rights that must be respected – by other individuals, and by government – regardless of religion, ethnicity, race, creed, or place of origin. We are each “endowed by our Creator” with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. For libertarians, immigration is thereby considered a net good. “Let us exalt, not stifle, man's mobility!” declared ...

$1 Trillion Deficits and the Crisis of the Entitlement State

by Richard M. Ebeling August 8, 2018

In case you have missed them since the early years of the Obama administration, the $1 trillion-a-year federal budget deficits are coming back, beginning with Uncle Sam’s new fiscal year for 2019, which starts on October 1, 2018. And they might not be going away anytime soon. Is it something to be worried about? Yes, it is. Both the Congressional ...

The Libertarian Angle: College Socialism

by Future of Freedom Foundation August 7, 2018

What would a free market in education look like? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Planned Chaos

by Dominick T. Armentano August 6, 2018

The mainstream media is currently hyper-ventilating over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the self-styled “democratic socialist” from Queens who pulled off an upset win in a New York Democratic primary recently. She has since gone on to campaign with Bernie Sanders in the Midwest and has appeared on dozens of soft talk shows; all this, of course, without being seriously challenged about ...

Who Owns Your Body?

by Laurence M. Vance August 3, 2018

Norma Brickey, an eighty-two-year-old mother, has been driving the streets of Columbus, Ohio, with a sign in her car window reading, “My son needs a kidney, O positive,” followed by her phone number. Both she and another of her sons have had kidney transplants. All three suffer from polycystic kidney disease, a condition in which cysts ...

Economic Straight Talk: Free Trade Is Best, Not Trade Retaliation

by Richard M. Ebeling August 3, 2018

Economic Straight Talk unmasks the economic fallacies behind many government policies, and explains the benefits from economic freedom — greater individual liberty that increases people’s freedom of choice and widens the free market competition that makes a better world for all of us.

Jacob Talks about FFF’s Outreach Campaign

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 3, 2018

 We are undertaking a special outreach project at The Future of Freedom Foundation to enable us to advance libertarian principles more effectively. I am writing to ask you to help us find more people who share our vision for achieving a free society. We recently ...

The Dangers of Totalitarian Planning, Past and Present

by Richard M. Ebeling August 2, 2018

Liberty is a delicate idea and institution. While people say they want freedom, fight under the banner of freedom, and even sometimes die for its preservation and advancement, determining what it actually means to be free and to live in a free society seems often elusive and controversial. What it means for a society to be free is, perhaps, easier ...

The JFK Assassination, Episode 6

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 2, 2018

In this series of short videos, FFF president Jacob Hornberger summarizes and details the circumstantial evidence pointing toward the U.S. national-security state as the orchestrator of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Watch the entire series. Go to the podcast.