The Libertarian Angle: Ukraine, Immigration, and Bitcoin by Future of Freedom Foundation March 17, 2014 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss Ukraine, immigration, and Bitcoin. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
TGIF: Empire on Their Minds by Sheldon Richman March 14, 2014 The conflict in Ukraine has prompted several level-headed commentators to point out that, of all governments, the U.S. government is in no position to lecture Russia about respecting other nations’ borders. When Secretary of State John Kerry said on Meet the Press, “This is an act of aggression that is completely trumped up in terms of its pretext.… You ...
How Americans Can Help Ukrainians by Sheldon Richman March 13, 2014 It can’t be easy living in Russia’s shadow, and I envy no one in that position. Given its long history and, consequently, the temperament of its leaders (and a good part of its population), Russia for the foreseeable future will be a regional power with an attitude. Thus it will ever be concerned with what happens on its ...
FFF Webinar: Intellectual Property and Its Unlibertarian Consequences by Sheldon Richman March 13, 2014 On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 FFF vice president and editor Sheldon Richman hosted a free, interactive online webinar entitled "Intellectual Property Consequences and Its Unlibertarian Consequences." This was an interactive experience with Sheldon and the participants. This video includes Sheldon's slides and the audio, but not the video feed.
Making Men Rapists by Wendy McElroy March 12, 2014 It is called “affirmative consent.” It is a new front in the growing regulatory oversight of the most intimate aspect of personal life: making love or having sex. If the White House Council on Women and Girls gets its way, then the doctrine of affirmative consent will regulate sex on a campus near you. It may already ...
The Business Cycle Explained by George Leef March 11, 2014 It Didn’t Have to Be This Way: Why Boom and Bust Is Unnecessary — and How the Austrian School of Economics Breaks the Cycle by Harry C. Veryser (Intercollegiate Studies Institute 2012), 318 pages. This is one instance where a book’s subtitle tells the reader much more about its content than the title does. You know at once ...
The Libertarian Angle: NATO and Ukraine by Future of Freedom Foundation March 10, 2014 The Libertarian Angle: NATO and Ukraine. FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the recent events in the Ukraine. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
TGIF: Work! by Sheldon Richman March 7, 2014 “I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar,” ...
Winning an Olympic Medal Can Be a Taxing Experience by Laurence M. Vance March 6, 2014 Although the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi have ended, some U.S. athletes will be reminded of their participation come tax time next year. Twenty-eight American athletes won an Olympic medal in the Sochi games (9 gold, 7 silver, and 12 bronze). Their margin of victory in many events was only a few seconds or points. But for most of ...
American Hawks Risk Escalating the Ukrainian Crisis by Sheldon Richman March 5, 2014 With Russia and the United States confronting each other over Ukraine, the world is at a dangerous juncture. While the chances of war between the two behemoths seem small — these are, after all, nuclear powers that have avoided war for over 60 years — nothing can be taken for granted. No one wanted the Great War that began ...
Libertarianism vs. the Empire by Future of Freedom Foundation March 4, 2014 "Libertarianism vs. the Empire" by John Glaser and Scott Horton was a speech sponsored by The Future of Freedom Foundation February 15, 2014 at the 2014 International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington D.C. Scott Horton was delayed by weather and arrived 30 minutes into the presentation. When Jacob Hornberger stops John Glaser to introduce Scott, ...
The Libertarian Angle: Ukraine and Venezuela by Future of Freedom Foundation March 4, 2014 Jacob Hornberger and Sheldon Richman discuss developments in Ukraine and Venezuela. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly.