Background Checks Violate Property Rights by Benedict D. LaRosa June 18, 2019 In the early 1990s, I accompanied a friend and his 12-year-old son to a local gun show. My friend wished to purchase a .22 ...
Charter Schools Are Still Public Schools by Laurence M. Vance June 17, 2019 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has issued his “Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education.” His ten-point plan addresses the serious crisis ...
America’s Economic Commissar of Trade by Richard M. Ebeling June 14, 2019 Since taking office in January 2017, President Donald Trump seems to have declared or threatened economic war on many of America’s leading economic trading ...
The Libertarian Angle: Tariff-Wall Man’s Extortion of Mexico (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation June 13, 2019 Are barriers to both immigration and trade the hallmarks of a free society? Do they make the citizens of ...
The Omnipresent Surveillance State by John W. Whitehead June 12, 2019 “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every ...
The Russians Are Coming! by Christine Smith June 11, 2019 The Russians are coming! Sure they are, and the sky is falling too. Based on rhetoric, you'd think the United States government was now stealthily undermined ...
End All State Support to Colleges and Universities by Jacob G. Hornberger June 14, 2019 While Democratic Party presidential candidates are stumbling over themselves in offering people free college tuition and other political candy in the hope of buying their votes, I’ve got a better idea. Let’s end all state support of colleges and universities entirely. State support of colleges and universities is part of the mandatory-charity system that we call the welfare state, a system ...
Preaching to the Choir by Jacob G. Hornberger June 13, 2019 Ever since I founded FFF 29 years ago, there have been critics who say to me, “You just preach to the choir.” My response is always: “Yeah, isn’t that great?” Of course, I issue the response in jest, especially since FFF has long shared libertarianism with both libertarian and non-libertarian audiences, such as historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), where FFF has been holding ...
The Tyranny of Drug Laws by Jacob G. Hornberger June 12, 2019 The recent drug bust of Russian journalist Ivan Golunov reminds us of another aspect of drug laws — the ability of tyrannical regimes to use such laws to target innocent people. In fact, consider any tyrannical regime in the world — North Korea, China, Vietnam, Cuba, Egypt, Myanmar (Burma), Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and others. I will guarantee you that every one of them has ...
Secrecy and Lies: Chernobyl and the U.S. Government by Jacob G. Hornberger June 11, 2019 SPOILER ALERT: If you have not yet seen the excellent HBO miniseries Chernobyl and might yet do so, you might want to wait to read this article until after you have seen the series, as it contains spoilers. The five-part series documents the catastrophic nuclear explosion that took place at a nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, an event that threatened ...
The Libertarian Angle: Tariff-Wall Man’s Extortion of Mexico June 13, 2019 Are barriers to both immigration and trade the hallmarks of a free society? Do they make the ...
The Libertarian Angle: Free Assange and Repeal the Espionage Act June 4, 2019 Does the first amendment protect journalists or people? Is the Espionage Act suitable for a free society? ...
The Libertarian Angle: World War II May 15, 2019 Was World War II the good war? Should the United States have been involved at all? FFF ...
Adhering to Principle May 10, 2019 The mission of The Future of Freedom Foundation is to advance freedom by providing an uncompromising moral ...
