Social Conflict, Self-Determination, and the Boundaries of the State by Future of Freedom Foundation March 27, 2010 For the advocate of classical or market liberalism, the depoliticization of economic life is considered the primary avenue for the diminishment of social and cultural tensions in society. The removal of the state from all involvement in market activities, other than as protector of life and property and legal arbiter of interpersonal disputes, means that political power may not be used to benefit any in the society at the expense of others. In the free-market society, all human relationships are based on voluntary agreement and mutual benefit. Individuals can be neither compelled to nor prohibited from trading with any others in the society. Every citizen in the classical-liberal society may freely compete in any line of endeavor in which he chooses to try his hand; his success or failure will depend upon whether those to whom he offers his ...
Social Conflict, Self-Determination, and the Boundaries of the State by Future of Freedom Foundation April 25, 2010 For the advocate of classical or market liberalism, the depoliticization of economic life is considered the primary avenue for the diminishment of social and cultural tensions in society. The removal of the state from all involvement in market activities, other than as protector of life and property and legal arbiter of interpersonal disputes, means that political power may not be used to benefit any in the society at the expense of others. In the free-market society, all human relationships are based on voluntary agreement and mutual benefit. Individuals can be neither compelled to nor prohibited from trading with any others in the society. Every citizen in the classical-liberal society may freely compete in any line of endeavor in which he chooses to try his hand; his success or failure will depend upon whether those to whom he offers his ...
“Immigration Dictatorship”? Logical Flaws and Etymological Faux Pas by Future of Freedom Foundation March 20, 2010 In “Socialism and Immigration,” I compared the anti-immigrant forces of today with the anti-free-trade forces of 19th-century France, as related by the great libertarian Frédéric Bastiat in his essay, “Metaphors.” Their motive is to get people to associate certain scary terms with a target group and let the tide of public opinion do the rest, however ill-informed that tide may be. At the forefront of anti-immigration sentiment in America is conservative columnist Paul Craig Roberts, whose misuse of language to further his agenda is as marked as any protectionist rhetoric from the 1800s. His latest attempt to turn the freedom of movement into a scare tactic for the political right was a column entitled An Immigration Dictatorship? which appeared in the February 24 issue of the Washington Times. “Are democracies democratic?” he asks in the ...
Social Conflict, Self-Determination, and the Boundaries of the State by Future of Freedom Foundation April 25, 2010 For the advocate of classical or market liberalism, the depoliticization of economic life is considered the primary avenue for the diminishment of social and cultural tensions in society. The removal of the state from all involvement in market activities, other than as protector of life and property and legal arbiter ...
Hornberger’s Blog, October 2007 by Future of Freedom Foundation March 12, 2010 Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Federal Blackmail, Privacy, and Conformity by Jacob G. Hornberger In today’s FFF Email Update, I have an article about the federal war on telephone privacy, the government program in which certain telephone companies allegedly turned over people’s private telephone records to the feds. A common bromide among some Americans is: “I don’t care what information about my telephone ...
Quinn Slobodian and the Academic Attack on Mises and Hayek by Richard M. Ebeling October 8, 2018 We are living in a world of the anti-liberal counter-attack against individual liberty, free markets and limited government. Prominent voices for the free society in the 20th century, like the Austrian economists, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich A. Hayek, are among the targets that opponents of free market liberalism are taking aim. In doing so, the anti-liberals distort the facts ...
You’re Not Allowed to Say That NATO Caused the War, Unless You Are NATO’s Secretary General by Benjamin Abelow October 17, 2023 There are two competing narratives about the origins of the Ukraine War. According to one narrative, Vladimir Putin is a Hitler-like aggressor. He wants to reestablish the Soviet empire by swallowing Ukraine and threatening the Baltic countries, Poland, and the nations further west. This narrative was created by Washington and Brussels. It has been repeated by European leaders and echoed ...
“Small Government” is an Empty Republican Mantra by Jacob G. Hornberger July 24, 2020 Favoring “small government” has long been a Republican and conservative mantra. It is also an empty one. It’s a shame that some libertarians have adopted it to describe libertarianism. After all, what does “small government” mean? A smaller IRS? A more streamlined DEA? A fascist Social Security system? A reformed Medicare system? A 10 percent cut ...
How Did America Survive Without an Espionage Act? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 23, 2022 For some 140 years, the United States did not have an Espionage Act. It didn’t come into existence until 1917, when U.S. officials used it to punish Americans who had the audacity to question the U.S. intervention into World War I, an intervention that ultimately led to the rise of the Hitler regime in the 1930s. No ...
The Clownish Thuggery of DeSantis and Abbott by Jacob G. Hornberger September 16, 2022 You can tell how Republicans view illegal immigrants by the clownish thuggery in which two of their most revered governors are currently engaged. After arresting (kidnapping might be a better term) immigrants for violating sacred federal laws against illegal entry, DeSantis and Abbott then have them involuntarily transported to Washington, D.C., or Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, where the transporters ...
Right-Wing Hypocrisy on DeSantis’s Clownish Thuggery by Jacob G. Hornberger September 19, 2022 Right-wingers are making a big deal out of the decision by people in Martha’s Vineyard not to take into their homes the immigrants that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis shipped to them a few days ago. The right-wingers are saying that feeding the immigrants and caring for them was not sufficient. The people of Martha’s Vineyard, they say, should ...
America is Not a National Home by Jacob G. Hornberger September 28, 2022 NOTE: Our upcoming online Zoom conference "End Inflation and the Fed" kicks off on next Monday, October 3, at 7 p.m. Eastern Time with Richard Ebeling. Richard teaches economics at the Citadel and is co-host of FFF's weekly Internet show, the Libertarian Angle. He is former president of The Foundation for Economic Education and former Ludwig von Mises ...
