The Hidden Consequences of Government Programs by Bart Frazier September 1, 2007 One of the more insidious effects of government production of goods and services is that the products that would have been produced in a free market — and the innovations that would have arisen — are never seen and therefore are never appreciated. That phenomenon helps to perpetuate the idea that without government intervention, certain ...
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker, Part 2 by Wendy McElroy September 1, 2007 Part 1 | Part 2 Liberty first appeared on August 6, 1881, from Boston, where Tucker worked as a journalist with the Boston Globe; later, in 1892, Liberty moved to New York City, where it was published until its demise in 1907. Fittingly, Liberty’s superscript was a quotation from Proudhon — “Liberty: not the daughter, but the mother ...
“Mr. Speaker, Peace Is Always Superior to War” by Anthony Gregory September 1, 2007 A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship by Ron Paul (Lake Jackson, Texas: Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, 2007); 372 pages; $19.95. “Mr. Speaker, peace is always superior to war,” said Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) ...
Iraq and Vietnam by Sheldon Richman August 31, 2007 President Bush, one of the two most famous pro-Vietnam War members of his generation to avoid fighting in that war, has finally accepted what he previously rejected: that there are parallels between the war he ducked out of and his violent occupation of Iraq. (The other best-known famous pro-war war ...
Mugabe’s Fatal Conceit by Ralph R. Reiland August 29, 2007 Readers of the New York Times got a front-page example recently of what F.A. Hayek called “the fatal conceit” — the idea that some great mind or committee can do a better job than the private market in organizing and directing an economy. Hayek argued that the market automatically coordinates the ...
Autocracy Comes to America by Sheldon Richman August 24, 2007 We appear to live in a republic. But look closely; it’s clearer every day that we live in a de facto autocracy. President Bush has managed to amass an astounding amount of power simply by scaring the American people and Congress into thinking that our continued existence as a society depends ...
Two Views of Social Order: Conflict or Cooperation (video) by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. August 24, 2007 On June 1, 2007, Lew Rockwell gave the following Speech at FFF's conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.
War, Peace, and the Struggle for Liberty (video) by Justin Raimondo August 24, 2007 On June 1, 2007, Justin Raimondo gave the following Speech at FFF's conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.
Big Government at Home and Abroad by Jacob G. Hornberger August 17, 2007 On June 22, 2007, Jacob Hornberger was invited to speak before the Houston Property Rights Assocation. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.
Casual Talk of War by Sheldon Richman August 13, 2007 The opponents of the Bush wars and the accompanying expansion of government power have been disappointed countless times before. Just the other day the Democrats in Congress acquiesced in the Bush administration’s heavy-handed bid for the power to conduct warrantless eavesdropping on American citizens and residents in the name of ...
Winning Is Losing by Sheldon Richman August 10, 2007 It’s amazing what passes for news these days. Two Brookings Institution “liberals” who favored the invasion of Iraq before it occurred and have since led the war-cheerleading section are now getting attention for writing on the New York Times op-ed page that if the Bush administration stays the course, ...
War and Leviathan: The Trick that Works Every Time (video) by Robert Higgs August 10, 2007 Robert Higgs on "War and Leviathan: The Trick That Works Every Time" at the Future of Freedom Foundation's Restoring the Republic, 2007.