Daily Articles

The Libertarian Angle: End the Fed (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation October 24, 2017

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling challenge the orthodoxy that the government must manage the money supply. Go to the podcast.

If Political Candidates Advocated Liberty

by Richard M. Ebeling October 23, 2017

In modern democracies, political cycles never end. As soon as one election is over, those in government office or aspiring to such an office are already running for the next election. Having recently attended a public forum of state-level candidates looking to the 2018 election, I wondered what a real friend of freedom might say if he was offering ...

Republicans for All

by Laurence M. Vance October 20, 2017

Last month, self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released his Medicare for All plan. Said Sanders, Health care must be recognized as a right, not a privilege. Every man, woman and child in our country should be able to access the health care they need regardless of their income. The only long-term solution to America’s health care crisis ...

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 ...