‘Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death’: The Loss of Our Freedoms in the Wake of 9/11 by John W. Whitehead September 10, 2015 “Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.” ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta What began with the
The Human Cost of Socialism in Power by Richard M. Ebeling September 9, 2015 The attempt to establish a comprehensive socialist system in many parts of the world over the last one hundred years has been one of the cruelest and most brutal episodes in human history. Some historians have estimated that as many as 200 million people may have died as part of the dream of creating a collectivist “Paradise on Earth.” Making ...
The Libertarian Angle – The Intellectual Roots of Free Enterprise by Future of Freedom Foundation September 8, 2015 Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and Richard give a short overview of the the history of economic thought the philosophy of individual liberty. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
Why Are Republicans So Upset about Obamacare? by Laurence M. Vance September 3, 2015 Although Republicans have talked incessantly about repealing Obamacare since the day it became the law of the land, they were for Republican versions of it before they were against it. They are for Republican versions of it right now. And they wholeheartedly support government intervention into the health-care and health-insurance industries that are even worse. In the recent Supreme Court ...
The Libertarian Angle – Presidential Race Follies and the Prospects for Liberty by Future of Freedom Foundation September 2, 2015 Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger discusses the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and guest co-host Richard M. Ebeling talk about the current debates among current candidates in the presidential race The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
Why We Don’t Compromise, Part 5 by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2015 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 Like every other welfare-state program, health care is in constant crisis. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. That’s what socialism does. It produces crises in every area of society it touches. It’s not a coincidence that America’s healthcare system ...
Supreme Demolition for the Raisin Racket by James Bovard September 1, 2015 The December 2013 Future of Freedom contained my article “A Supreme Rebuff for USDA’s Ruinous Raisin Regime.” The legal case surrounding that controversy kept percolating in the courts for another 18 months. The Obama administration won a big victory in federal appeals court last year before getting squashed by the Supreme Court this past June. The Supremes put an ...
The Consistency of Libertarianism by Laurence M. Vance September 1, 2015 The essence of libertarianism is that a person should be free to live his life in any manner he chooses as long as his activities are peaceful, his interactions are consensual, and his associations are voluntary. Conservative godfather Russell Kirk (1918–1994) was right, at least on this point, when he said that a man who calls himself a libertarian because ...
Book Review: An Enjoyable Guide to Economics by Richard M. Ebeling September 1, 2015 Popular Economics: What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can Teach You about Economics by John Tamny (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2015) 279 pages. It is often pointed out that man’s improved circumstances on this Earth over the centuries has been the result of the accumulated knowledge that each generation takes from the preceding ones, to ...
Your Data or Your Life by Matthew Harwood September 1, 2015 Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015), 400 pages. Your data or your life. Distilled to its essence, this is the argument of surveillance hawks who want U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies to retain their intrusive, unlawful, and unconstitutional surveillance ...
The Vietnam War and the Permanent War State by Gareth Porter September 1, 2015 American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity by Christian G. Appy (Viking Press, 2015), 416 pages. In his new book, American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity, Christian G. Appy deals with some big historical and conceptual problems of great interest to Americans and non-Americans who seek an end to the permanent war state ...
“Great National Purposes” Mean Less Freedom by Richard M. Ebeling August 31, 2015 With the seventieth anniversary this year of the end of the Second World War, a number of commentators have focused on the presumed “unity” of America seven decades ago to “win the war” against global tyranny and international aggression by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Individuals put aside their individual personal and petty interests to support and fight for ...