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The Economic Nationalism of Donald Trump

by Richard M. Ebeling January 30, 2017

Donald Trump has hardly taken his hand off the Bible upon which he took the presidential oath to preserve, protect and defend the U.S. Constitution, and he has already radically and rapidly begun to transform the direction of the American government. Taking up (at least metaphorically) Barack Obama’s pen, he has signed a series of executive orders. Several of ...

America’s Unchecked Security State

by Peter Dale Scott January 27, 2017

By the 1960s Hoover had become one of the most powerful political figures in America, thanks chiefly to his ability to use the FBI’s notorious Division Five (successively named the National Defense Division, the Security Division, and the Domestic Intelligence Division) to intimidate, blackmail, or destroy the careers of people who were not accused of any crime, ...

The Disaster of Progressivism

by David S. D'Amato January 26, 2017

Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era by Thomas C. Leonard (Princeton University Press, 2016), 264 pages. In his paper, “The Study of Administration,” Woodrow Wilson offered his reassurances that the professionalization of bureaucracy in America would not result in a “domineering, illiberal officialism.” Free Americans, Wilson argued, had nothing to fear from borrowing ...

Has the American Dream Become the American Nightmare?

by John W. Whitehead January 25, 2017

“Most Germans, so far as I could see, did not seem to mind that their personal freedom had been taken away, that so much of their splendid culture was being destroyed and replaced with a mindless barbarism, or that their life and work were being regimented to a degree never before experienced even by a people accustomed for generations ...

Naomi Brockwell: Time to End the War on Drugs

by Naomi Brockwell January 24, 2017

Watch Naomi Brockwell present her perspectives on why America needs to end the war on drugs. This presentation is part of FFF’s Drug War Video Project, whose aim is to accelerate the end of this immoral and destructive government program.

James Mill, David Ricardo and the Triumph of Free Trade

by Richard M. Ebeling January 23, 2017

We are in the midst of marking the centenary of the First World War, which was fought from 1914 to 1918. But, in fact, the first real modern world war enveloped Europe and other parts of the globe more than a century earlier from 1791 to 1815, during which first Revolutionary and then Napoleonic France was at war with ...

Nothing Is Real

by John W. Whitehead January 20, 2017

“There are two ways by which the spirit of a culture may be shriveled. In the first—the Orwellian—culture becomes a prison. In the second—the Huxleyan—culture becomes a burlesque. No one needs to be reminded that our world is now marred by many prison-cultures…. it makes little difference if our wardens are inspired by right- or left-wing ideologies. The gates ...

Cutting Government Waste Is Not Enough

by Laurence M. Vance January 19, 2017

It is no secret that agencies and programs of the federal government waste obscene amounts of the taxpayers’ money. Even members of Congress have pointed that out. Senator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) has just released his annual catalog of egregious government spending. His 201-page “Wastebook” this year is titled “Wastebook: PORKémon Go” (last year’s “Wastebook” had a Star Wars ...

The Libertarian Angle: Trump’s Wall

by Future of Freedom Foundation January 18, 2017

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about Donald Trump's statements on immigration. Go to the podcast.

Ted Galen Carpenter: Time to End the War on Drugs

by Ted Galen Carpenter January 17, 2017

Watch Ted Galen Carpenter present his perspectives on why America needs to end the war on drugs. This presentation is part of FFF’s Drug War Video Project, whose aim is to accelerate the end of this immoral and destructive government program.

Economic Ideas: David Ricardo on Wealth, Inflation, and Freedom

by Richard M. Ebeling January 16, 2017

David Ricardo (1772-1823) was one of the most influential economic theorists of the first half of the nineteenth century. Born in London, England, his father’s family were orthodox Jews originally from Portugal who had moved to England from Holland. His father was a highly successful stockbroker. David Ricardo learned the family business, and most likely would have ...

Obama’s Legacy and What It Means for a Trump Presidency

by John W. Whitehead January 13, 2017

“This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; out of the same man it makes two different phantoms, and the one attacks and punishes the other, the darkness of the despot struggles with ...