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The Libertarian Angle: Trump’s Tariff Welfare Plan for Farmers (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation July 25, 2018

As As Ludwig von Mises pointed out, one state intervention often leads to another. Donald Trump instituted trade tariffs and is now cutting checks to those whom the tariffs have hurt. FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.

Some Confusions of Language in Economic Thought

by Richard M. Ebeling July 24, 2018

Fifty years ago, in 1968, Austrian (and Austrian school) economist Friedrich A. Hayek published a monograph called The Confusion of Language in Political Thought. Hayek argued that the words we use and the meanings we give to them greatly influence how we think about the political system and the wider social order in which we live. ...

Ron Paul – Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy

by Ron Paul July 23, 2018

This speech was presented at a conference entitled "Non-interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy" in Charleston, South Carolina on April 29. 2018. The event was co-sponsored by The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity and The Future of Freedom Foundation. Our country is enmeshed in permanent, ongoing foreign wars and interventions. The results of foreign ...

The JFK Assassination, Episode 4

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 20, 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.

Economic Straight Talk: Trade Wars and the Balance of Trade Fallacy

by Richard M. Ebeling July 19, 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.

The Libertarian Angle: Eminent Domain (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation July 18, 2018

One of the basic functions of a government is the defense of property. How does eminent domain fit within this role? Is there any place in a free society for eminent domain? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.

Socialism, Like Dracula, Rises Again From the Grave

by Richard M. Ebeling July 17, 2018

Many of us grew up watching movies about Dracula — Nosferatu, the Undead. Fearful of the sunlight that could burn him into cinders, Dracula lived in a coffin filled with his native Transylvanian soil by day, only to come out at night to live off the life-giving blood of the living. But to continue his unnatural existence, this human-like ...

Rep. Mark Sanford – Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy

by Mark Sanford July 16, 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 in terms of ongoing, ever-growing destruction of liberty, privacy, and prosperity here at home. It is time for America to do some serious ...

Constitutional Conservatives Fail the Drug Test

by Laurence M. Vance July 13, 2018

The announced retirement of Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy from the U.S. Supreme Court (effective July 31, 2018) has conservatives salivating over the prospects of Donald Trump’s nominating a constitutional conservative to the Supreme Court. Although Kennedy was nominated to the High Court by Ronald Reagan, he has at times disappointed conservatives with some of his votes, especially ...

The JFK Assassination, Episode 3

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 12, 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.

A New World Order

by John W. Whitehead July 12, 2018

“There are no nations. There are no peoples ... There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business.”—Network (1976) There are those who will tell you that any mention ...

The Libertarian Angle: Democratic Socialism (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation July 11, 2018

What is democratic socialism and what is its import for a free society? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.