Criminalizing Childhood by John W. Whitehead September 6, 2018 “Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. From metal detectors to drug tests, from increased policing to all-seeing electronic surveillance, the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society ...
The Libertarian Angle: Child Labor Laws by Future of Freedom Foundation September 5, 2018 Children's rights are one of the toughest areas that the libertarian philosophy addresses. How does libertarianism apply to the regulation of child labor? Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.
Food-Stamp Republicans by Laurence M. Vance September 5, 2018 Libertarians couldn’t be more different from Republicans. Just look at what Republicans are saying — and not saying — about Donald Trump and food stamps. The federal food-stamp program (officially called SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) is administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, but is operated by the ...
The Day the Justice Department Accused Me of Jury Tampering by Jacob G. Hornberger September 4, 2018 In the summer of 1975, I returned to my hometown of Laredo, Texas, to begin the practice of law with my father, who had been a lawyer in Laredo since the end of World War II. I had just graduated from law school at the University of Texas and had just secured my law license from the state of ...
Full Program – Non-interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy by Future of Freedom Foundation September 3, 2018 This program, entitled “Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy,”was presented in Charleston, South Carolina on April 29, 2018 and co-sponsored with The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.
U.S. Policy toward Cuba Attacked America’s Freedom and Values by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2018 The decades-long U.S. interventionist policy against Cuba failed to achieve its goal of removing Fidel Castro from power and replacing him with a pro-U.S. regime, similar to the pro-U.S. Batista regime that the Cuban revolution ousted from power in 1959. More important, interventionism against Cuba ended up attacking the freedom and values of the American people. During the Cold War, ...
The Latest Debacle Proves the Need for a Sweeping FBI Investigation by James Bovard September 1, 2018 The reputation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation took another pummeling in June, when the Department of Justice Inspector General released a damning report on the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s squirrely email server. Americans learned that the FBI had done backflips to exonerate Clinton and that a top FBI official had openly promised to “stop” Donald Trump from ...
Efficiency Experts for the Welfare State by Laurence M. Vance September 1, 2018 Bordered by two oceans, encompassing 3.8 million square miles, and populated by more than 325 million people, the United States is a vast country. But although the United States is not yet a cradle-to-grave welfare state like many European countries, it is also a vast welfare state. There are in the United States about 80 means-tested welfare programs. These are ...
The Sanctifying of Plunder by Leonard Read September 1, 2018 The law ... has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. — Frédéric Bastiat The commandment “Thou shalt not steal” would be far better kept today had not theft assumed various disguises under which its practice has been generally sanctified. The gilding of an evil gives it a virtuous face — a Mr. Hyde’s ugliness covered by ...
Socialists Masquerading as Liberals by James Cook September 1, 2018 The Minneapolis Star-Tribune (a left-wing newspaper) featured a quotation on the Sunday editorial page that claims that without intensive regulation “capitalism is a menace to society.” From the end of the Civil War in the United States to World War I federal government regulations barely existed. This laissez-faire capitalism catapulted living standards upward and generated a host of new ...
The Boomerang Effect by Matthew Harwood September 1, 2018 Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism by Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall (Stanford University Press, 2018); 264 pages. On the evening of July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson turned a protest against police brutality into a bloodbath. Angry at police killings of black men nationwide, the Army reservist and Afghan war ...
Libertarian Lessons: Property Rights by Scott McPherson August 31, 2018 Borrowing heavily from the Whig philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all of us have the right to our lives, to our liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness. Less than a century earlier, Locke had offered a similar theme, with a slight difference: He stated that we have a right to ...