Daily Articles

Your Tax Dollars Bankroll Afghan Child-Molesters

by James Bovard May 1, 2018

Donald Trump was hailed by the media last August when he announced he was sending more U.S. troops to fight in Afghanistan. A Washington Post editorial praised his “principled realism” and saluted “a rare but welcome story of self-correction” (since Trump had portrayed Afghanistan as a lost cause when he was a presidential candidate). A New York Daily News ...

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 Case against Schooling

by George Leef May 1, 2018

The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Caplan (Princeton University Press, 2018, 395 pages). Almost every book on education policy (and I have read a great many of them) springs from the set of assumptions that education “experts” embrace: that schooling builds our stock of knowledge and ...

Is the U.S. Government Evil? You Tell Me

by John W. Whitehead April 25, 2018

The greatest evil is not now done … in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. ...

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.

Come to Charleston!

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 20, 2018

    TICKETS TO THIS EVENT ARE SOLD OUT! If you have ever wanted an excuse to visit Charleston, South Carolina, one of the most beautiful cities in the United States, you have it now! The Ron Paul Institute and The Future of Freedom Foundation are teaming up to present an exciting, timely, and ...

Crimes of a Monster

by John W. Whitehead April 19, 2018

“Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?”— James Russell Lowell, 19th century American novelist Let us not mince words. We are living in an age of war profiteers. We are living in an age of scoundrels, liars, brutes and thugs. ...

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.

Gun Control in Britain Has Failed

by Scott McPherson April 16, 2018

Around 1920, the British Parliament in London began whittling away at the right to own firearms. Recognized at least from the days of king Billy and his Glorious Revolution, the right to arms was slowly but steadily eviscerated as any rise in crime or some shocking event invigorated anti-gun sentiment in a country marching to the Left. New “common ...

The Slippery Slope to a Constitution-Free America

by John W. Whitehead April 13, 2018

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”—Benjamin Franklin The ease with which Americans are prepared to welcome boots on the ground, regional lockdowns, routine invasions of their privacy, and the dismantling of every constitutional right intended to serve as a bulwark against government abuses is beyond ...

Why Is the Government Still Regulating the Railroads?

by Laurence M. Vance April 12, 2018

Donald Trump recently nominated two new members for Republican seats on the Surface Transportation Board (STB): Patrick Fuchs of Wisconsin and Michelle A. Schultz of Pennsylvania. Fuchs is a senior Senate Commerce Committee staffer who “has participated in the drafting and passage of five bills directly affecting freight and passenger railroads.” He was previously “a policy analyst ...