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America, Meet Your New Dictator-in-Chief

by John W. Whitehead June 2, 2022

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have given way to permanent crisis management: to policing the planet and fighting preventative wars of ideological containment, usually on terrain chosen by, and favorable to, our enemies. Limited government and constitutional accountability have been shouldered aside by the kind of imperial presidency our constitutional system was explicitly designed to prevent.” — ...

The Stultification of American Conscience

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2022

One of the fascinating consequences of public (i.e., government) schooling is that it molds the minds of children in such a way that by the time they become adults, their minds inevitably mirror whatever narrative the authorities happen to be advancing at any particular time. In fact, the indoctrination is oftentimes so effective that most of them have no ...

Supreme Court Tortures the Constitution Again

by James Bovard June 1, 2022

The Supreme Court ruled in March that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never formally confessed its crimes. The case symbolizes how the rule of law has become little more than legal mumbo-jumbo to shroud official crimes. And it is another grim reminder that Americans cannot rely on politically ...

Libertarian Lessons from the Super Bowl

by Laurence M. Vance June 1, 2022

Even most non-sports fans like me know that the Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL). It is one of the world’s most watched sporting events, and it has the most expensive commercials (lately $7 million for 30 seconds). Some people watch the game just to see the commercials and the halftime show. ...

The Centenary of Ludwig von Mises’s Critique of Socialism

by Richard M. Ebeling June 1, 2022

At a banquet dinner held in New York City on March 7, 1956, honoring the famous Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, another equally renowned member of the Austrian school of economics, Friedrich A. Hayek, delivered a talk highlighting the important contributions of his long-time mentor and close friend, going back to when they first met in the Vienna of ...

Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich, Part 1

by George Leef June 1, 2022

Part 1 | Part 2 Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich — How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Art Carden (University of Chicago Press, 2020). Throughout almost all of human history, people lived miserably — far worse than even Thomas Hobbes famously said. Improvements? There weren’t any. Happiness? That ...

The Vicious Cycle Fueled By America’s Toxic Cult of Violence

by John W. Whitehead May 25, 2022

“Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that relies on violence to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Given the profits made by arms manufacturers, the defense industry, gun dealers and the lobbyists who represent them in Congress, it comes as no surprise that the culture of ...

Get Ready to Be Muzzled: The Coming War on So-Called Hate Speech

by John W. Whitehead May 19, 2022

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech.”—Benjamin Franklin Beware of those who want to monitor, muzzle, catalogue and censor speech. Especially be on your guard when the reasons given for limiting your freedoms end up expanding the government’s powers. In the wake of a mass shooting in Buffalo, NY, carried out by an ...

The Ninth Circuit Upholds the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

by Scott McPherson May 18, 2022

California’s Ninth Circuit has ruled in a 2-1 decision that a state ban on 18- to 20-year-olds buying semiautomatic rifles is inconsistent with the Second Amendment and must be overturned. “America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army,” wrote Judge Ryan Nelson. “Today we reaffirm that our Constitution ...

You’ve Been Flagged as a Threat

by John W. Whitehead May 16, 2022

“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse.” — Milton Friedman You’ve been flagged as a threat. Before long, every household in America will be similarly flagged and assigned a threat score. Without having ever knowingly committed a crime or been convicted of one, you and your fellow citizens have ...

Confronting Evil at Home

by Future of Freedom Foundation May 13, 2022

Amazon Review Excerpts: An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story Purchase today at Amazon: $9.85 Kindle version. $14.95 print version. “This is one of the two best books I have read on the Kennedy assassination, the other being JFK and the Unspeakable.”—Five-star rating. “This book will ...

Overturning Roe v. Wade Is a Win for Federalism – and the Constitution

by Scott McPherson May 11, 2022

The Cato Institute has released its latest edition of “Freedom in The 50 States: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom,” and it reveals that a spectrum of liberty, from libertarian(ish) to statist, is found across the fruited plains of this country. The freest states are New Hampshire, Florida, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Nevada. At the ...