The Libertarian Angle: Capital and the Free Market (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation October 19, 2017 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss how monopolies are government-created entities and that freeing the market is the only way to liberty and prosperity. Go to the podcast.
This Is How Tyranny Rises and Freedom Falls by John W. Whitehead October 19, 2017 “Every day I ask myself the same question: How can this be happening in America? How can people like these be in charge of our country? If I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I’d think I was having a hallucination.”—Philip Roth, novelist It is easy to be distracted right now by the circus politics that ...
A Call for “Do-Nothing” Presidents Without Legacies by Richard M. Ebeling October 16, 2017 Some in the news media and editorial page pundits are aghast that many of President Donald Trump’s executive orders and legislative proposals sent off to the United States Congress represent an attempt to undue the presidential “legacy” of Barack Obama. The question is, why should it be presumed that presidents need to have policy legacies to leave behind after ...
A Culture of Compliance Breeds Despots and Predators by John W. Whitehead October 11, 2017 “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”― Frank Herbert Power corrupts. Worse, as 19th-century historian Lord Acton concluded, absolute power corrupts absolutely. It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about a politician, an entertainment mogul, a corporate CEO or a ...
The Libertarian Angle: Monopolies, Big Business, and the Free Market (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation October 10, 2017 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss how monopolies are government-created entities and that freeing the market is the only way to liberty and prosperity. Go to the podcast.
Neo-Liberalism: From Laissez-Faire to the Interventionist State by Richard M. Ebeling October 9, 2017 Spanish One of the most accusatory and negative words currently in use in various politically “progressive” circles is that of “Neo-Liberalism.” To be called a “Neo-Liberal” is to stand condemned of being against “the poor,” an apologist for the “the rich” and a proponent of economic policies leading to greater income inequality. The term is also ...
Decriminalization Is Not Enough by Laurence M. Vance October 6, 2017 According to recently released FBI crime data, there were 1,572,579 drug arrests in the United States last year. That’s an average of one drug arrest nearly every 20 seconds. The total number is up by about 5.6 percent from the 1,488,707 arrests for drug crimes in the United States in 2015. Because of a change in how ...
Gun Control Is a Bigger Threat than Mass Murderers by David S. D'Amato October 5, 2017 In order to see new gun control laws as an appropriate response to the Las Vegas tragedy, one must assume the truth of several extremely tenuous claims, the most general being that such new laws would have any real impact on the ability of potential malefactors like the Vegas gunman to carry out their crimes. Available evidence gives us ...
The Military-Entertainment Complex’s Culture of Violence Turns Deadly by John W. Whitehead October 4, 2017 “Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that relies on violence to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Given the profits made by arms manufacturers, the defense industry, gun dealers and the lobbyists who represent them in Congress, it comes as no surprise that the culture of ...
The Libertarian Angle: Consumer Sovereignty and the Free Market by Future of Freedom Foundation October 3, 2017 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the benefits of the free market. Go to the podcast.
Classical Liberalism and the Problem of “Race” in America by Richard M. Ebeling October 2, 2017 The masterful words in the American Declaration of Independence that have inspired untold millions of people around the world hailed a transformative conception of man and the human condition by declaring that all men were created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights, including the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. What stood out in these words ...
The National Security-State and JFK, Part 3 by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2017 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 John F. Kennedy came into the presidency in 1961 as a standard Cold Warrior. Like most Americans, he had bought into the entire rationale for the Cold War — that is, that communism and the Soviet Union posed a grave threat to the United ...