The Ongoing Destruction of the Minds of Children by Gary D. Barnett March 1, 2019 There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure. — Isabel Paterson Compulsory schooling is a travesty. To call it education is absurd. Real education is lifelong learning as an individual, while ...
Pull That Veil Away! by Leonard Read March 1, 2019 Combatting statism is not, as many assume, a project in propaganda; it is, instead, a probing operation. The problem is not one of merely getting others to grasp the little we already know; it is far more a matter of discovering that which we ourselves do not yet understand. A major area of exploration, of course, is to find new ...
The Myth of Aggregate Demand and Supply by Richard M. Ebeling February 28, 2019 It has been more than 80 years since the beginning of the Keynesian revolution in economics with the publication of John Maynard Keynes’ The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money in 1936. During those eight decades many defenses and criticisms, restatements and refutations have appeared, some by many of the most prominent economists of the last century. Yet, ...
The Libertarian Angle: Venezuela and the Tyranny of Gun Control (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation February 27, 2019 Possession of firearms does not guarantee freedom, but it certainly doesn't hurt. The leaders of Venezuela surely understand this. FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.
The Age of Tyrannical Surveillance by John W. Whitehead February 27, 2019 “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about… Your digital identity will live forever... because there’s no delete button.”—Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Uncle Sam wants you. Correction: Big Brother wants you. To be technically accurate, Big Brother—aided and abetted by his corporate partners in crime—wants ...
Carl Menger: A Biographical Appreciation by Friedrich von Wieser by Richard M. Ebeling February 25, 2019 Friedrich von Wieser (1851-1926) was one of the leading contributors in the “second generation” of the Austrian School of Economics. This memorial appreciation of Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian School, was published in German not long after Menger’s passing in 1921. Wieser explains the state of economics before Menger’s writings on economic theory, the lasting importance ...
Rule by Fiat by John W. Whitehead February 21, 2019 “When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”—Richard Nixon Who pays the price for the dissolution of the constitutional covenant that holds the government and its agents accountable to the will of the people? We all do. This ill-advised decision by President Trump to circumvent the Constitution’s system of checks and balances by declaring a national emergency in ...
The Libertarian Angle: The Horrors of the Original New Deal by Future of Freedom Foundation February 20, 2019 With the New Green Deal a hot topic, we thought it would be time again to take stock again of the the original New Deal meant for this country. FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.
The Nightmare Fairyland of the Green New Dealers by Richard M. Ebeling February 19, 2019 When a small child runs around waving their arms saying, “I’m a bird, I’m a bird,” we often will say what a creative imagination they have. If an adult runs around doing the same, we usually say that that person needs help because they are clearly out of touch with reality. Anyone who takes the time to read the ...
The Green New Deal Is a Bad Deal by Christine Smith February 18, 2019 As Democrats proclaim their Green New Deal as the solution to just about everything ailing the country and the world, one point bears emphasis: the irony of using "New Deal" in its title, as if Americans are supposed to get excited about the prospect of another federal government "deal" forced upon us. Those with economic wisdom do not view ...
I’m Not Breaking Up with America This Valentine’s Day, and Neither Should You by John W. Whitehead February 15, 2019 “There’s absolutely no evidence to support the statement that the greatest country in the world. We’re 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, 3rd in median household income, number 4 in labor force and number 4 in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: number ...
How the Word Liberalism Came to Mean Its Opposite by Richard M. Ebeling February 14, 2019 Over time, words sometimes change their meanings or connotations. Think of the words naughty and nice. Apparently, naughty originally meant to have or be nothing (naught or zero), but then it took on the extra sense of something being worth nothing, until finally a person who was considered worth nothing became a bad individual, or at least someone who ...