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Can Capitalism Survive? 80 Years After Schumpeter’s Answer

by Richard M. Ebeling April 1, 2022

Eighty years ago, in the midst of the Second World War, Austrian-born economist Joseph A. Schumpeter published one of his most famous books, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942). A central question that he asked and tried to answer was, “Can Capitalism Survive?” His basic conclusion was, “No, I do not think it can” (p. 61). He was (forlornly) confident ...

Team America?

by Scott McPherson March 31, 2022

Leftist politicians and their water-carriers in the media are incensed that most Americans are weary of foreign wars. While President Biden ramps up the dangerous rhetoric against Russia and sends more “lethal aid” to Ukraine, the people are less enthusiastic. Two-thirds say they don't want U.S. forces involved in the conflict. It might be too early ...

Humilitainment: How to Control the Citizenry Through Reality TV Distractions

by John W. Whitehead March 29, 2022

“Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours…. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a ...

Cancel Marxism. Defund the Universities

by Scott McPherson March 28, 2022

No institution in the United States, or the Western world in general, is more enamored with Marxism than so-called “higher education.” Marxism is grounded in class hatred, the notion that we are each born into a particular economic group that is either oppressor (the capitalists) or oppressed (the proletariat), it being the duty of every member ...

Dystopian Movies Fit for a Dystopian World

by John W. Whitehead March 25, 2022

“The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we’re part of the medium. The scary thing is, we’ll lose our right to ...

Your Social Security Increase Just Might Be Taxed Away

by Laurence M. Vance March 23, 2022

Social Security recipients got a nice benefit increase this year, but according to a report by The Senior Citizens League (TSCL), “Almost half of all households that receive Social Security benefits might pay taxes this year on a portion of their benefits.” This raise and the possible reduction in benefits reveals the true nature of Social ...

Conservatives Are Wrong on Education

by Scott McPherson March 22, 2022

Conservatives are understandably angered about the state of schooling in this country. For decades, the public-school bureaucracy has peddled the line that they care about education. The revealed truth, however, is quite sinister. Public schools have become indoctrination centers – hostile to learning, hostile to freedom, hostile to children, and hostile to families. Many people are waking ...

An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story

by Jacob G. Hornberger March 21, 2022

The following is the Introduction to The Future of Freedom Foundation’s new book An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story by Jacob Hornberger. Purchase the book at Amazon: $9.95 for the Kindle version and $14.95 for the print version. Introduction In 1983, the late psychiatrist M. Scott Peck wrote a book entitled People of the Lie. It was a ...

Beware of the Government’s Push for a Digital Currency

by John W. Whitehead March 16, 2022

“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes.”—Thomas Paine The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. The government’s schemes to swindle, cheat, scam, and generally defraud taxpayers of their hard-earned dollars have run the gamut from wasteful pork barrel legislation, ...

Ludwig von Mises’s Free Market Agenda for a Postwar Ukraine

by Richard M. Ebeling March 14, 2022

Our television screens and social media sites are filled with the images of death and destruction as the Russian army continues its devastating advance into Ukraine. How long this will go on, and with what human and material costs is still not known. But for the Ukrainian people and their country’s economy, the world is, truly, being turned upside ...

The Battle of Golden Spurs

by Scott McPherson March 11, 2022

The political and social order of the Middle Ages was feudalism. Land ownership was the pinnacle of wealth and power, and from it was derived, at least for men, the obligation of service to a liege lord as a knight in battle. Not even high birth could replace the importance of land. Without land, a human ...

Things Are Getting Worse, Not Better

by John W. Whitehead March 9, 2022

“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.”—Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism Let me tell you about the state of our nation: things are getting worse, ...