The U.S. Government Buys and Sells Its Citizens for Profit and Power by John W. Whitehead November 29, 2023 Americans have become easy prey for hackers, scammers, snitches, spies, and con artists. But don’t be fooled into thinking the government is protecting you. To the ...
Help Us Advance Liberty in the Year Ahead by Jacob G. Hornberger November 28, 2023 I am writing to seek your end-of-year financial support for The Future of Freedom Foundation to help us advance liberty in the year ahead. When ...
America’s National-Security State by Jacob G. Hornberger November 27, 2023 The following is a nonverbatim transcript of a talk that I delivered on September 1, 2023, at the young scholar’s segment of the annual ...
Reform, Replace, or Repeal? by Laurence M. Vance November 20, 2023 The U.S. government is a monstrosity. With its four million employees and annual budget approaching $7 trillion, there is no other way to describe ...
Stop Drinking the Political Kool-Aid, America by John W. Whitehead November 15, 2023 “We’ve got to face it. Politics have entered a new stage, the television stage. Instead of long-winded public debates, the people want capsule slogans—‘Time ...
School Choice and American Taxpayers by Laurence M. Vance November 10, 2023 Conservative and libertarian proponents of “school choice,” that is, government-provided educational vouchers that allow low-income parents to send their children to the school of ...
Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription by Jacob G. Hornberger November 29, 2023 If your doctor gets the diagnosis wrong, it is almost certain that he’s going to get the prescription wrong. If he concludes, for example, that your stomach ache is nothing more than indigestion, when the problem actually is cancer, the medicine he prescribes is probably not going to do you much good. The same holds true for diagnoses for ailments that afflict the ...
Only One Solution for Immigration Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger November 28, 2023 I received an email today from the right-wing Claremont Institute announcing an “exclusive virtual briefing” this evening featuring a sheriff from Fort Worth, Texas, named Bill Waybourne, who is going to “delve into the pressing issues and potential solutions surrounding the Texas border crisis and broader immigration challenges along the southern border.” What a big waste of time. Do the Claremont Institute and ...
An Excellent JFK Conference by Jacob G. Hornberger November 27, 2023 Two weeks ago, I attended an excellent conference on the Kennedy assassination that was sponsored by the Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Cyril H. Wecht, who is now in his 90s, is one of the country’s most renowned forensics pathologists. For decades, he has courteously and heroically stood squarely against the conclusions ...
The Darkly Brilliant and Ingenious Aspects of the Kennedy Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger November 22, 2023 There were two darkly brilliant and ingenious aspects of the national-security establishment’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy sixty years ago today — November 22, 1963. The brilliant part was framing a "communist" or, to be more accurate, a government agent whose job it was to appear as a communist. Why was that brilliant? Because this was at the height of the ...
Bastiat’s Concept of What is Seen and Unseen November 30, 2023 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss Frederic Bastiat's famous essay about the broken window ...
The Classical Economists: Frédéric Bastiat November 16, 2023 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the significance of the classical economist Frederic Bastiat. Go ...
How Austrian Economics Impacted the Life of Richard Ebeling November 13, 2023 Professor Richard M. Ebeling tells his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics and how ...
The Classical Economists: Jean-Baptiste Say and John Stuart Mill November 9, 2023 In this segment of the Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the ideas of two more ...