The Libertarian Angle: History of Economic Thought, Part 2 by Future of Freedom Foundation January 19, 2016 Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and Richard continue thei review the early history of economics from Adam Smith through David Ricardo and John Stuart Mill. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
How Lithuania Helped Take Down the Soviet Union by Richard M. Ebeling January 18, 2016 This year, 2016, will mark the twentieth-fifth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union from the political map of the world. A quarter of a century ago, the menace of Soviet-led communism, which had haunted the globe since the time of the Russian Revolution in 1917, disintegrated from within and passed into the dustbin of history. The Soviet Empire ...
The Libertarian Angle: History of Economic Thought by Future of Freedom Foundation January 13, 2016 Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and Richard review the early history of economics from Adam Smith through David Ricardo and John Stuart Mill. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
The State of the Nation: A Dictatorship Without Tears by John W. Whitehead January 12, 2016 “There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted ...
Individualism Is Battling The Politically Managed Mind In The 21st Century by Richard M. Ebeling January 11, 2016 Wherever we turn we are confronted with politicians, political pundits, television talking heads, and editorial page commentators, all of whom offer an array of plans, programs, and projects that will solve the problems of the world – if only government is given the power and authority to remake society in the design proposed. Even many of those who claim to ...
Bibles, Hotels, Christians, and Atheists by Laurence M. Vance January 7, 2016 The Gideons International wants to place copies of the Bible in all hotel rooms. Most hotels have complied with the request. Many Americans like the idea. Other Americans don’t care one way or the other. Some Americans want the Bibles removed. In a free society, the questions of whether the Gideons should or shouldn’t make such a request, whether hotels ...
Playing the Government’s Game by John W. Whitehead January 6, 2016 “When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence ...
The Libertarian Angle: Presidential Candidates and the Status Quo by Future of Freedom Foundation January 5, 2016 Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and Richard review the candidates for the upcoming presidential election. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
The Government Must Stop Printing Phony Money by Richard M. Ebeling January 4, 2016 If advocates of freedom were to make up a list of New Year’s resolutions for 2016, one of the most important items should be ending government’s monopoly control over money. In a free society, people in the marketplace should decide what they wish to use as money, not the government. For more than two hundred years, practically all of even ...
Gun Control and the Right to Resist Tyranny by Jacob G. Hornberger January 1, 2016 If Jews in Nazi Germany had been free to own guns, would that have diminished the impact of the Holocaust? GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson candidate set off a political firestorm by proclaiming that it would have. Gun-rights critics went on the attack, saying that the right to bear arms would have had no effect on the number of Jews ...
Supreme Fashion Reject by James Bovard January 1, 2016 “You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth,” the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen declared in his famous play An Enemy of the People. Unfortunately, the justices on the Supreme Court of the United States — the sacred burial ground of Americans’ rights and liberties — are not members of Ibsen’s ...
The Libertarian Solution by Laurence M. Vance January 1, 2016 The United States of America is facing some major issues in the twenty-first century. The national debt is $18.5 trillion. The budget deficit is $500 billion. Homelessness is widespread in most major cities. Student-loan debt is more than a trillion dollars. Social Security and Medicare are insolvent. Government spending continues to skyrocket. There are more than 45 million Americans ...