Daily Articles

The Libertarian Angle: Obama vs Trump

by Future of Freedom Foundation January 11, 2017

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about the executive powers that Obama is bequeathing to Trump. Go to the podcast.

Neill Franklin: Time to End the War on Drugs

by Neill Franklin January 10, 2017

Watch Neill Franklin 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: Thomas Malthus on Population, Passions, Property and Politics

by Richard M. Ebeling January 9, 2017

Those of us who have been fortunate enough to have been born in what is often still referred to as the Western World (Europe and North America) rarely appreciate the historical uniqueness of our material and related cultural well being compared not only to many still around the globe today, but relative to those who lived in that Western ...

The Titanic Sails at Dawn

by John W. Whitehead January 6, 2017

“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters Despite our best efforts, we in the American police state seem to be stuck on repeat, reliving the same set of circumstances over and over and over again: egregious surveillance, strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, government spying, censorship, retaliatory arrests, ...

Time to Smack Down the Small Business Administration

by Laurence M. Vance January 5, 2017

In 2012, Barack Obama elevated the administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to a Cabinet-level position, where the office had been under Bill Clinton. The current administrator, Maria Contreras-Sweet, is unknown to the overwhelming majority of Americans, as are the thirty-three administrators who preceded her. This ignorance is about to change, for, according to a statement ...

The Libertarian Angle: Noninterventionism

by Future of Freedom Foundation January 4, 2017

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the history and ramifications of a noninterventionist foreign policy. Go to the podcast.

The United States, China, and Taiwan

by Laurence M. Vance January 3, 2017

There are 194 recognized countries in the world, all of which are member states of the United Nations (UN), except for Vatican City. There are also Palestine, Kosovo, and Taiwan. Palestine, which is recognized by 136 UN member states, is one of two permanent nonmember observer states at the UN, the other being Vatican City. Kosovo declared its independence from ...

The Assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt, Part 1

by Jacob G. Hornberger January 1, 2017

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 On the morning of September 21, 1976, former Chilean official Orlando Letelier was driving to work at the Institute for Policy Studies, a leftist public-policy institute in Washington, D.C. Accompanying him were his 25-year-old assistant Ronni Moffitt and her husband, Michael, both of whom also worked at the ...

How Food Stamps Subverted Democracy, Part 2

by James Bovard January 1, 2017

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Last month we saw how political demagoguery helped make hunger a major issue in American politics beginning in the late 1960s. After Jimmy Carter was elected president in 1976, liberals and their media allies largely declared victory over hunger. Carter was a humane progressive and there was no ...

It Is Congress That Needs to Be Limited

by Laurence M. Vance January 1, 2017

Standing near the Long Island Expressway (LIE) — with tractor-trailers zooming by — U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) called on the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to swiftly finalize a proposed rule that would require electronic speed-limiting devices in large trucks, buses, and school buses that weigh more than 26,000 pounds. Said the senator in a press release, For ...

Money on the Table

by Richard W. Fulmer January 1, 2017

There’s an old economists’ joke about two university professors who are walking through the school’s cafeteria. The first professor, an engineer, points to an empty table and says, “Look, someone left a twenty-dollar bill.” The second professor, an economist, replies, “Nonsense. Someone would have already picked it up.” The point of the joke is that, in a free market, explanations ...

Freedom in Transactions

by Fredric Bastiat January 1, 2017

On entering Paris, which I had come to visit, I said to myself — here are a million human beings who would all die in a short time if provisions of every kind ceased to flow towards this great metropolis. Imagination is baffled when it tries to appreciate the vast multiplicity of commodities that must enter tomorrow through the ...