The Libertarian Angle – JFK vs. the National Security State by Jacob G. Hornberger August 11, 2015 Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger discusses the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and guest co-host James DiEugenio talk about the assassination of JFK and the national security state. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
Conservatives Deceived Me on Immigration by Thomas R. Eddlem August 11, 2015 I grew up in the conservative movement at the end of the Cold War, but eventually realized I had been misled on the issue of immigration. When I finally took the trouble to research the issue after receiving a private offer to write a series of anti-immigration tracts (a contract from which I declined), I found that most ...
Harming Our Health: How Licensing Laws Can Kill by Mary Ruwart August 10, 2015 The following is an excerpt from the updated edition of Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism. How to Enrich the Poor, Protect the Environment, Deter Crime & Defuse Terrorism by Mary J. Ruwart, Ph.D, with a forward by Ron Paul. Go to this webpage for a synopsis of the book and a 50 percent discount through ...
They Live, We Sleep: A Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy by John W. Whitehead August 5, 2015 “You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they’re people just like you. You're wrong. Dead wrong.”—They Live We’re living in two worlds, you and I. There’s the world we see (or are made to see) and then there’s the one we sense (and occasionally ...
The Libertarian Angle – “Serfdom U.S.A.” by Jacob G. Hornberger August 4, 2015 Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger discusses the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob discusses how Americans live the lives of serfs on the plantation. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
Practicing Freedom: Markets, Marriage, and Migration by Richard M. Ebeling August 3, 2015 Liberty is a demanding ideal to believe in and live by. It requires consistency of principle and acceptance of much in the actions of others that we may disagree with or even find personally repulsive. Unfortunately, too many in our society do not sufficiently value the right of the individual to live his own life as he choses. They wish ...
Why We Don’t Compromise, Part 4 by Jacob G. Hornberger August 1, 2015 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 The crown jewel of the U.S. welfare state is Social Security. This federal program was adopted during the 1930s as part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, which consisted of an array of government programs that revolutionized America’s economic ...
Obama’s “Cynicism” Racketeering by James Bovard August 1, 2015 Barack Obama captured the presidency in part because of his appeals to “hope and change.” But after more than six years in power, he is now spending far more time denouncing cynicism. As usual, the worst example of cynicism is citizens who fail to trust the government and the Supreme Leader. A presidency built on restoring faith in the ...
Does Empire Provide Global Public Goods? by Joseph R. Stromberg August 1, 2015 Many of us have brushed up against public-goods theory once or twice, in an economics class or in various policy arguments. In the 1970s the concept took off in international-relations studies and we hear much these days about global public goods. This broadening of public-goods theory serves to license a broad array of state activities abroad, modeled on those ...
The Crisis of the Welfare State by Clarence Carson August 1, 2015 The welfare state is more like a vast overlay of interventions on the market and economy than the displacement of it. They burden the economy, distort it, disrupt it, but they do not replace it. The interventions produce episodic disorders as well as crises. Some of these have been called by such varied names as recessions, inflation, economic stagnation, ...
Business Is No Business of the State by George Leef August 1, 2015 Uncle Sam Can’t Count: A History of Failed Government Investments from Beaver Pelts to Green Energy by Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom (Broadside Books, 2014), 239 pages. The day after the 2010 mid-term elections, the federal government quietly announced the bankruptcy of Solyndra, a “green energy” company that had been touted by Barack Obama as a ...
The War That Justified Other Wars by Laurence M. Vance August 1, 2015 The Good War That Wasn’t — And Why It Matters: World War II’s Moral Legacy by Ted Grimsrud (Cascade Books, 2014), 286 pages. Even among some libertarians, World War II is viewed as the great exception. Although it was the most destructive thing to life, liberty, and property that the world has ever seen, World War II is ...