Daily Articles

Militarism or Isolationism?

by Stephen Wertheim May 1, 2017

Under Donald Trump, American foreign policy is returning, many commentators say, to the isolationism that preceded World War II. This line of interpretation (and often attack) emerged during the election: While Hillary Clinton warned that her opponent would “tear up our alliances,” an array of experts supplied such fears with a historical pedigree. As Council on Foreign Relations president ...

The Iron Jaws of the Police State

by John W. Whitehead April 27, 2017

“Policing is broken... It has evolved as a paramilitary, bureaucratic, organizational arrangement that distances police officers from the communities they’ve been sworn to protect and serve. When we have shooting after shooting after shooting that most people would define as at least questionable, it’s time to look, not just at a few bad apples, but the barrel. And ...

The Problem with Harris County’s Relaxing of Its Marijuana Laws

by Laurence M. Vance April 26, 2017

Although marijuana is still illegal on the federal level, twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for medical use and eight states have legalized marijuana for recreational use. Other states have decriminalized certain marijuana-possession offenses. There are numerous restrictions, of course. But some freedom is better than no freedom. Texas is not one of these states. Partial ...

The Libertarian Angle: Shut Down the Government

by Future of Freedom Foundation April 25, 2017

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the possibility of federal government shutdown. Go to the podcast.

Campus Collectivism and the Counter-Revolution Against Liberty

by Richard M. Ebeling April 24, 2017

Much has been rightly said about recent attacks on conservative, libertarian, and other non-leftist speakers on college and university campuses around the country. The elements of intellectual intolerance, the willingness to shout down any ideological critic or opponent, and the resort to incidents of on-campus violence to prevent invited speakers from addressing students have been pointed out to represent ...

Run for Your Life

by John W. Whitehead April 19, 2017

We’ve reached the point where state actors can penetrate rectums and vaginas, where judges can order forced catheterizations, and where police and medical personnel can perform scans, enemas and colonoscopies without the suspect’s consent. And these procedures aren’t to nab kingpins or cartels, but people who at worst are hiding an amount of drugs that can fit into a ...

The Libertarian Angle: Trump’s Attack on Syria

by Future of Freedom Foundation April 18, 2017

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the recent missile attack launched by President Trump on Syria. Go to the podcast.

The Moral Foundations of the Free Market Society

by Richard M. Ebeling April 17, 2017

Higher education in the United States is engulfed in an ideological campaign against the American political and economic traditions of individual liberty, free competitive markets, and constitutionally limited government. In its place is the “progressive” agenda of collectivist identity politics, the regulatory and redistributive interventionist economy, and political plunder and power. Both “scientific” and casual surveys of political orientation and ...

End the Drug War: Conference at FAMU

by Future of Freedom Foundation April 13, 2017

In conjunction with the ACLU at Florida A&M University, the ACLU at Barry University, and the ACLU at the University of Central Florida, The Future of Freedom Foundation was pleased to present an evening program on the campus of Florida A&M University College of Law on Wednesday, March 22, 2017, that addressed the war ...

The Libertarian Angle: Advancing Liberty

by Future of Freedom Foundation April 12, 2017

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss different methods for advancing towards a free society. Go to the podcast.

Beware the Dogs of War: Is the American Empire on the Verge of Collapse?

by John W. Whitehead April 11, 2017

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes… known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of ...

The Consumer Price Index, a False Indicator of Our Individual Costs-of-Living

by Richard M. Ebeling April 10, 2017

For years the Federal Reserve and many other central banks around the world have declared that a key element of monetary policy is the targeting of a two percent rate of annual price inflation. Now the Federal Reserve has suggested that that target rate may be “temporarily” raised to – well, they have been less precise about that. As measured ...