Gun-Toting Cops Endanger Students and Turn the Schools into Prisons by John W. Whitehead February 20, 2020 "Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come ...
Happy 90th Birthday, Professor Israel Kirzner! by Richard M. Ebeling February 19, 2020 Even in an era when modern medicine and technologies are adding to people’s lifetimes, along with the gains in general human economic betterment, it ...
The Long Shadow of World War I and America’s War on Dissent, Part 2 by Danny Sjursen February 18, 2020 Part 1 Upon U.S. entry into the war, in 1917 the Wilson administration proposed and a compliant Congress almost immediately passed the Espionage Act, ...
Defending the Foundations of Freedom for 30 Years by Richard M. Ebeling February 17, 2020 This January 2020 marks the 30th anniversary of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s monthly publication, Future of Freedom, which at its beginning was called ...
A Case for Not Giving Up on the American Dream by John W. Whitehead February 14, 2020 “We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”—Benjamin Franklin Listen: we don’t have to agree about everything. We don’t even have ...
The New Totalitarians by Richard M. Ebeling February 12, 2020 This year marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The defeat of Nazism in Europe was seen as not ...
Truth Matters to the Government, Sometimes by Jacob G. Hornberger February 21, 2020 In yesterday’s sentencing hearing for Roger Stone, a friend and former advisor to President Trump, federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson misspoke. According to the New York Times, prior to sentencing Stone to serve 3 years in jail for various offenses, including lying under oath to Congress, Jackson stated: In government inquiries, “the truth still exists. The truth still matters.” Otherwise, she ...
Immigration Interventionism by Jacob G. Hornberger February 20, 2020 Ludwig von Mises pointed out that one government intervention into economic activity inevitably leads to another intervention, which then leads to more and more interventions. That’s because the first intervention inevitably produces problems, which then require another intervention to fix those problems. That new intervention then produces a set of new problems, which then necessitates new interventions. The process continues until there is a ...
Drug War Obtuseness by Jacob G. Hornberger February 19, 2020 Sometimes I wonder how super-smart people can be so obtuse when it comes to the drug war. A recent example of this phenomenon is Ioan Grillo, a contributing editor for the New York Times. Grillo is the author of two books on the drug war: El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency, which was translated into five languages and was a Los Angeles Times Book ...
Has the Constitution Failed? by Jacob G. Hornberger February 18, 2020 Given the massive welfare-warfare state system under which Americans live, the natural assumption is that the Constitution failed in its mission to constrain the powers of the federal government. Actually, though, that isn’t the case. How, then, can these two points be reconciled? How can the Constitution be said to have succeeded in its mission given that, at the same time, we now live under a ...
The Evil of Sanctions and Embargoes February 21, 2020 Among the most immoral and destructive policies of the U.S. government are sanctions and embargoes. Join FFF ...
Cobden, Bright, and Bastiat February 13, 2020 Free trade is one of the burning issues of our time, but did you know that in ...
The Ongoing Consequences of the Yalta Conference February 6, 2020 In February of 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill met on the Crimean peninsula ...
LibertyView Podcast: Are America’s Trade Wars a Policy Loser for Conservatives? January 31, 2020 Whoever said that our country’s ongoing trade wars would be ...
