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JFK & Mary Meyer: Relationship as Redemption

by Peter Janney June 23, 2017

The Future of Freedom Foundation hosted one of the most fascinating, important, and relevant conferences in our 27-year history. Entitled “The National Security State and JFK,” the conference was held on Saturday, June 3, 2017, at the Dulles Airport Marriott in Northern Virginia. Peter Janney has been a practicing psychologist, educator, and consultant for over 35 ...

What Is The Purpose of the National Security State?

by Michael Swanson June 22, 2017

The Future of Freedom Foundation hosted one of the most fascinating, important, and relevant conferences in our 27-year history. Entitled “The National Security State and JFK,” the conference was held on Saturday, June 3, 2017, at the Dulles Airport Marriott in Northern Virginia. Michael Swanson is the founder and editor of the financial website WallStreetWindow.com where ...

The National Security Establishment’s Obsession with Invading Cuba

by Douglas Horne June 21, 2017

The Future of Freedom Foundation hosted one of the most fascinating, important, and relevant conferences in our 27-year history. Entitled “The National Security State and JFK,” the conference was held on Saturday, June 3, 2017, at the Dulles Airport Marriott in Northern Virginia. Douglas P. Horne served as head of the military records team on the ...

The Militarized Police State Opens Fire

by John W. Whitehead June 21, 2017

It is often the case that police shootings, incidents where law enforcement officers pull the trigger on civilians, are left out of the conversation on gun violence. But a police officer shooting a civilian counts as gun violence. Every time an officer uses a gun against an innocent or an unarmed person contributes to ...

Double Government and the ‘Best Truth’ about the Assassination

by Michael J. Glennon June 20, 2017

The Future of Freedom Foundation is pleased to announce one of the most fascinating, important, and relevant conferences in our 27-year history. Entitled “The National Security State and JFK,” the conference was held on Saturday, June 3, 2017, at the Dulles Airport Marriott in Northern Virginia. Michael J. Glennon is Professor of International Law at the ...

Regime Change: Roots of the Imperial Temptation

by Stephen Kinzer June 19, 2017

The Future of Freedom Foundation hosted one of the most fascinating, important, and relevant conferences in our 27-year history. Entitled “The National Security State and JFK,” the conference was held on Saturday, June 3, 2017, at the Dulles Airport Marriott in Northern Virginia. Stephen Kinzer is a former New York Times reporter and is currently a ...

Economic Ideas: Jean-Baptiste Say and the “Law of Markets”

by Richard M. Ebeling June 19, 2017

Whatever economic freedom we enjoy in the world today is due, to a great extent, to the ideas and efforts of the classical liberals and economists of the first half of the nineteenth century. Inspired by the eighteenth-century writings of the French Physiocrats and Scottish Moral Philosophers (for example, David Hume and Adam Smith), they forcefully and insightfully demonstrated ...

JFK’s Quest for Peace

by Jeffrey Sachs June 16, 2017

The Future of Freedom Foundation was pleased to host one of the most fascinating, important, and relevant conferences in our 27-year history. Entitled “The National Security State and JFK,” the conference was held on Saturday, June 3, 2017, at the Dulles Airport Marriott in Northern Virginia. Jeffrey Sachs holds the title of University Professor, the highest ...

Lynching Free Speech

by John W. Whitehead June 16, 2017

What are the defenders of free speech to do? The sad fact is that this fundamental freedom is on its heels across America. Politicians of both parties want to use the power of government to silence their foes. Some in the university community seek to drive it from their campuses. And an entire generation of Americans is being taught ...

Discrimination Hypocrisy

by Laurence M. Vance June 15, 2017

Soon after Donald Trump won the presidential election in November, it was widely reported that a number of prominent fashion designers were refusing to work with his wife, Melania Trump, because they do not approve of her husband’s politics. In a word, they were practicing discrimination. Designer Sophie Theallet, who dressed First Lady Michelle Obama, posted an ...

The Libertarian Angle: Giants of Libertarianism — Leonard Read

by Future of Freedom Foundation June 14, 2017

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about the founder of The Foundation for Economic Education and a hero of modern libertarianism, Milton Friedman. Go to the podcast.

Karl Marx and the Presumption of a ‘Right Side’ to History, Part II

by Richard M. Ebeling June 12, 2017

Those who speak about being on the “right side of history” have, knowingly or not, adopted a central element in Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism and the idea that the capitalist system follows a particular course of historical development that is open to scientific explanation and prediction, and which presumes to be placing humanity on a road that leads ...