Daily Articles

The Libertarian Angle: Racism and Civil War Statues

by Future of Freedom Foundation August 23, 2017

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the recent controversy over civil war statues and the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Go to the podcast.

Cows and Cannabis

by Laurence M. Vance August 22, 2017

Lynching is on the rise. No, it is not occurring in the Deep South. No, it is not being perpetrated by white men. And no, it is not being done because of the color of someone’s skin. Lynching is occurring in India. It is being carried out by Hindus. And it is being done because of someone’s diet. India is ...

Austrian Monetary Theory vs. Federal Reserve Inflation Targeting

by Richard M. Ebeling August 21, 2017

One of the leading policy guideposts for central banks and many monetary policy proponents nowadays is the idea of “inflation targeting.” Several major central banks around the world, including the Federal Reserve in the United States, have set a goal of two percent price inflation. The problem is, what central bankers are targeting is a phantom that does not ...

The Libertarian Angle: The North Korea Crisis

by Future of Freedom Foundation August 15, 2017

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discussing rising tensions with North Korea. Go to the podcast.

Ten Years On: Recession, Recovery and the Regulatory State

by Richard M. Ebeling August 14, 2017

What we now know to have been one of the worst economic and financial crises of the post-World War II period began about ten years ago in 2007. Various retrospective commentaries have focused on the severity of the economic downturn, its impact on different markets and segments of the population, and the lessons from it. An especially important lesson ...

The Libertarian Angle: Q&A on Open Borders

by Future of Freedom Foundation August 10, 2017

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling answer questions from viewers on open borders. Go to the podcast.

Anything Goes When You’re a Cop in America

by John W. Whitehead August 9, 2017

There is one criminal justice system for citizens—especially black and brown ones—and another for police in the United States. —Redditt Hudson, former St. Louis police officer President Trump needs to be reminded that no one is above the law, especially the police. Unfortunately, Trump and Jeff Sessions, head of the Justice Department (much like their predecessors) appear ...

Support Our “End the Drug War” Conferences

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 9, 2017

In 2006, a 38-year-old Texas woman named Carol Denise Richardson was convicted of cocaine possession. A federal judge sentenced her to life in prison. Last year, after she had served ten years of her life term, President Obama ordered her release from prison, conditioned on ten years of supervised release. A few weeks ago, ...

Tyrants of the Mind and the New Collectivism

by Richard M. Ebeling August 7, 2017

The current counter-revolution against liberty is being fought on a number of fronts in American society. One is on the college and university campuses across the country, where the ideology of “political correctness” is strangling the principle and practice of freedom of speech and the ideal of intellectual controversy and debate. Critical to this campaign against free expression and open ...

Questions about Medicaid that Are Never Asked

by Laurence M. Vance August 4, 2017

One of the problems that Democrats had with the feeble (and now failed) Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare was that the Republican plans “cut” Medicaid spending. This is almost a mirror image of what happened in 2010 when the Democratic-controlled Congress passed Obamacare in the first place. After the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act “cut” Medicare spending ...

Shot Down Like Dogs in the Street

by John W. Whitehead August 3, 2017

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned. —William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” Things are falling apart. How much longer we can sustain the fiction that we live in a constitutional republic, I cannot say, but anarchy is being loosed ...

The Libertarian Angle: The Fear of Freedom

by Future of Freedom Foundation August 2, 2017

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss paternalism and how it fosters a fear of individual liberty. Go to the podcast.