Last-Minute Christmas Gifts: FFF Best-Selling Ebooks! by Jacob G. Hornberger December 15, 2017 Still uncertain what to give friends, relatives, and acquaintances for Christmas? How about one of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s best-selling ebooks? FFF’s newest ebook, Freedom Frauds: Hard Lessons in American Liberty by James Bovard, who is a longtime policy advisor and monthly columnist for FFF. Released this past October, this ebook has now reached #1 on Amazon’s best-seller list in “Political Freedom.” Help advance liberty by sharing with your friends Jim’s detailed accounts of how the welfare-warfare state is destroying freedom and prosperity in America. Austrian Economics and Public Policy: Restoring Peace and Prosperity by Richard Ebeling, co-host of FFF’s weekly Internet show, the Libertarian Angle, and economics professor at the Citadel. Published last April, this ebook is still in Amazon’s top 100 best-sellers for economics. It’s a perfect introduction to Austrian economics and also an interesting read for people already versed in Austrian economics. Monetary Central Planning and the State by Richard Ebeling. Published ...
Help FFF Strive for a Free Society (video) by Jacob G. Hornberger December 18, 2017 We must continue advancing liberty: It’s the right thing to do and, despite what is happening in the political world, we might soon see a sudden shift in society toward peace, prosperity, and freedom. One thing is for sure: If we give up, we cannot succeed. Will you help us bring our nation ever closer to a free society with a generous tax-deductible donation to The Future of Freedom Foundation? Donate today.
What Americans Should Know about the Constitution by Laurence M. Vance October 1, 2017 Having just finished reading a new biography of H.L. Mencken, I was intrigued when I discovered that the Washington Post had an online section about politics called “Monkey Cage.” It was Mencken who said, “Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.” “Monkey Cage’”s mission “is to connect political scientists and the political conversation by creating a compelling forum, developing publicly focused scholars, and building an informed audience. Here, political scientists draw on their own expertise and the discipline’s research to illuminate the news, inform civic discussion, and make some sense of the circus that is politics.” But it was the headline of the first post I read in the comments section that intrigued me even more. “Too many Americans know too little about the Constitution,” read the headline. That is certainly not fake news, I thought. I saw that ignorance firsthand back when I taught American Government to high-school seniors. Most of them had absolutely ...
Slavery and Segregation Were Federal Programs by David S. D'Amato October 1, 2017 Americans are afflicted with a “collective amnesia” that surrounds the subject of segregation, complacently assured that it was, if anything, a “minor factor” in the striking wealth gap that today divides white from black Americans. In his book The Color of Law, the Economic Policy Institute’s Richard Rothstein argues that not only have Americans forgotten the true legacy of ...
Felix Morley, Champion of the American Republic by Wendy McElroy October 1, 2017 The American socialist Ed Sard is reported to have originated the concept of a “permanent arms economy” as a way to explain why America experienced a post–World War II boom, while World War I had been followed by recession. Sard concluded that the United States retained many of the characteristics of a war economy, including what today is called ...
Justice Denied: The Government Is Not Going to Save Us by John W. Whitehead January 10, 2018 “The warlords of history are still kicking our heads in, and no one, not our fathers, not our Gods, is coming to save us.”— Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled: it will not hear the case of Young v. Borders. Despite the fact that a 26-year-old man was gunned down by police ...
Why Is the U.S. Spying on China? by Jacob G. Hornberger January 17, 2018 The federal government’s arrest of former CIA agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee for allegedly spying for China confirms, once again, that for the U.S. national-security branch of the federal government, the Cold War never ended. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that Lee is suspected of having revealed the existence to Chinese authorities of Chinese citizens who were ...
Keep It Shut Down! by Jacob G. Hornberger January 22, 2018 Last Friday, I predicted that Washington politicians would strike a last-minute deal to prevent a “shutdown” of the federal government. They failed to reach a deal and the federal government is now “shut down.” Okay, my prediction failed to materialize. But that’s not going to stop me from doing more predicting! Here’s my new prediction: They are going to strike a ...
Bettina Bien Greaves (1917-2018) by Jacob G. Hornberger January 24, 2018 In 1988, the flagship publication of The Foundation for Economic Education, The Freeman, published an essay of mine entitled, “Leonard Read Changed My Life.” It was the first article I had ever had published. By that time, I was working at FEE as program director. My office was just down the hall from the office of Bettina Bien Greaves, ...
Paul Leroy-Beaulieu: A Warning Voice About the Socialist Tragedy to Come by Richard M. Ebeling January 29, 2018 The Russian Revolution of November 1917, now being marked by its centenary, ushered in a hundred years of political tyranny and terror, economic suffering, exploitation and corruption, along with unimaginable mass murder, among the tens of millions of people who came under the control and command of Marxist inspired socialist regimes around the world. But before this tragic episode ...
The State of Our Union by John W. Whitehead January 31, 2018 “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing ...
Why Not End Funding Now? by Laurence M. Vance February 2, 2018 Donald Trump’s possible decision to end NASA’s funding of the International Space Station by 2025 brings up that age-old question of the proper role of government, although it is certainly not he who is bringing it up. The International Space Station (ISS) program is a joint operation between NASA and the space agencies of Russia, Japan, Canada, ...
