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Lincoln-Worship Overlays the Corporatist Agenda

by Kevin Carson March 1, 2014

Lincoln Unbound: How an Ambitious Young Railsplitter Saved the American Dream — and How We Can Do It Again by Rich Lowry (HarperCollins 2013), 390 pages. One of the central themes in James Scott’s Seeing Like a State is the ideology he calls “authoritarian high modernism”: It is best conceived as a strong (one might even say muscle-bound) version of ...

Crisis, Leviathan, and the National Security State (video)

by Robert Higgs February 28, 2014

"Crisis, Leviathan, and the National Security State" by Robert Higgs 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.

TGIF: We Can Oppose Bigotry without the Politicians

by Sheldon Richman February 28, 2014

Portuguese Should the government coercively sanction business owners who, out of apparent religious conviction, refuse to serve particular customers? While such behavior is repugnant, the refusal to serve someone because of his or her race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation is nevertheless an exercise of self-ownership and freedom of nonassociation. It is both nonviolent and nonviolative of other ...

Is the National Security Agency Out of Control? (video)

by Jameel Jaffer February 27, 2014

"Is the National Security Agency Out of Control?" by Jameel Jaffer 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.

The Dulles Brothers and America’s Century of Regime Change (video)

by Stephen Kinzer February 26, 2014

"The Dulles Brothers and America's Century of Regime Change" by Stephen Kinzer 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.

Obama Should Steer Clear of Ukraine

by Sheldon Richman February 26, 2014

President Obama insists he does not regard the conflict in Ukraine “as some Cold War chessboard in which we are in competition with Russia.” He’d be more credible if he were not following his predecessors in acting as though the Cold War still exists. Although the Soviet empire, including its Warsaw Pact alliance, disbanded beginning in 1989, Republican and ...

America at the Crossroads of Civil Liberties in the 21st Century (video)

by Jonathan Turley February 25, 2014

"America at the Crossroads of Civil Liberties in the 21st Century" by Jonathan Turley 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.

Imperial Overreach and the National Security State (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation February 24, 2014

"Imperial Overreach and the National Security State" with Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick, and Jeremy Scahill. This panel was sponsored by The Future of Freedom Foundation February 15, 2014 at the 2014 International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington D.C.

Press About Oliver Stone-Peter Kuznick-Jeremy Scahill FFF Panel at SFL Conference

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 24, 2014

The following is a list of articles written about the FFF panel at the Students for Liberty conference in Washington, D.C., on February 14-16, 2014. The panel consisted of Oliver Stone, the Academy Award Winning Hollywood director, Peter Kuznick, Stone's collaborator on their Showtime series "Untold History," and Jeremy Scahill, whose film "Dirty Wars" received an Academy Award nomination ...

The Libertarian Angle: FFF’s Program at the Students for Liberty Conference (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation February 24, 2014

Jacob and Sheldon discuss FFF's conference within a conference at the 2014 International Students for Liberty Conference. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly.

The Logic of Crisis and Leviathan and Why It Still Holds (video)

by Robert Higgs February 19, 2014

On February 17, 2014 Robert Higgs presented the above speech as part of the ongoing Economic Liberty Lecture Series, a joint project of The Future of Freedom Foundation and the George Mason University Economics Society. Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor at Large of the Institute's quarterly journal ...

Social Security Has Not Changed

by Laurence M. Vance February 18, 2014

The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) is touting the changes to Social Security for 2014. Instituted during the New Deal, Social Security, a federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program, provides monthly benefits for retirement, disability, survivorship, and death to about 57 million Americans, including survivors and dependents. Social Security is “funded” by a payroll tax deduction ...