Daily Articles

Keeping Government Bureaucrats Off the Backs of the Citizenry: The Supreme Court Responds

by John W. Whitehead June 29, 2015

“No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that’s in the right and keeps on a-comin’.”—Texas Rangers In one swoop, on June 22, 2015, a divided U.S. Supreme Court handed down three consecutive rulings affirming the right of raisin farmers, hotel owners and prison inmates. However, this push back against government abuse, government snooping and government theft ...

Opening Minds on Open Borders (video)

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 26, 2015

FFF President Jacob Hornberger appears on the Joe Christiano Show on Liberty Talk Live to discuss the libertarian case for open immigration.

F. A. Hayek and Why Government Can’t Manage Society, Part I

by Richard M. Ebeling June 25, 2015

This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. On May 8th, Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied Powers in Europe. On September 2nd, Imperial Japan surrendered to the Allies on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, thus ending a global conflict that is estimated to have cost the lives of ...

Progressives Against Liberal Values

by David S. D'Amato June 24, 2015

The tragedy in South Caroline, the result of the vile acts of a murdering racist, finds the political class once again dreaming of new “gun safety reforms” — which we can safely decode as new ways to trample on the individual’s right to possess a firearm. As President Obama put it, “If Congress had passed some common sense gun ...

Libertarian Angle: Racism, Gun Control, and Craziness

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 23, 2015

Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger discusses the hot topics of the day. This week, the gun massacre in Charleston. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly.

The Elusive Just Price

by Laurence M. Vance June 22, 2015

The annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) was held in Chicago recently. The conference, which was attended by about 25,000 scientists and doctors concerned with the treatment of cancer, was heavily sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry. Thus, it came as a big surprise when Dr. Leonard Saltz, chief of Gastrointestinal Oncology at Memorial Sloan ...

Libertarians Are Pro-Market, Not Pro-Business

by David S. D'Amato June 19, 2015

There is a popular narrative that treats pro-market and pro-business essentially as synonyms, thus seeing the most libertarian-leaning candidates as those most favored by major corporate interests. The idea is that big business both desires and benefits from an environment of total laissez faire, of cutthroat competition free from the control of meddlesome regulators. The problem is that from a ...

Prisons Without Walls: We’re All Inmates in the American Police State

by John W. Whitehead June 18, 2015

“It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free—to be under no physical constraint and yet be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state, or of some private interest within the nation wants him to think, feel and act. . . . To ...

American Progressives are Bismarck’s Grandchildren

by Richard M. Ebeling June 17, 2015

American “progressives” portray themselves as “forward-looking,” advocates of a higher and better freedom than the traditional American conception of liberty as freedom from government coercion and control. In fact, they are the intellectual great-grandchildren of the “reactionary” nineteenth century Imperial German “Iron Chancellor,” Otto von Bismarck. A recent example of the progressive’s retrogressive notion of the meaning of freedom was ...

The Libertarian Angle – Ron Paul and the Battle for Liberty

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 16, 2015

Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger discusses the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and special co-host Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, discuss the importance of a non-interventionist foreign policy and the dismantling of the welfare state. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the ...

The State’s Exploitation of the Common Man

by Bart Frazier June 15, 2015

One of the oldest complaints coming from the Left is that the business world exploits the common man. The Democrat Party uses it as a veritable rallying cry, with its candidates promising to protect the helpless lower classes from the predations of corporations and international conglomerates. As they say, the game is rigged. They are correct, but not in ...

The Libertarian Angle – Freedom and Privacy vs. the NSA

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 9, 2015

Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger discusses the hot topics of the day. This week, the continuing scandal at the NSA. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.