FFF Conference: How I Discovered Austrian Economics by Future of Freedom Foundation September 20, 2023 Join us every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time for our upcoming live Zoom ...
The Next Crisis Is Anyone’s Guess, But the Government Is Ready to Lockdown the Nation by John W. Whitehead September 19, 2023 “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series ...
Thomas Nixon Carver on the Economics of Conflict versus Cooperation by Richard M. Ebeling September 18, 2023 Human beings have had two fundamental ways of associating with each other: conflict or cooperation. Both methods have run through all recorded human history, ...
Movie Review: The Mauritanian by Lance Lamberton September 14, 2023 If ever one were to doubt or question that the United States has become a national-security state, all he or she would need to ...
The Bipartisan Assault on the Right to Travel by Ted Galen Carpenter September 13, 2023 Americans used to boast proudly that unlike most countries in the world, domestic travel in the United States was unfettered by legal obstacles. Unfortunately, ...
Dump Trump’s Trade Policy by Laurence M. Vance September 12, 2023 After “a thorough, transparent, and data-driven investigation,” the U.S. Commerce Department has determined that American companies should pay higher prices for imported tin mill ...
The Discomforting Solution to Homelessness by Jacob G. Hornberger September 21, 2023 People are upset over the homelessness problem in American cities. Unfortunately, however, all too many of them are not interested in adopting the solution to the problem, which is twofold: (1) repeal zoning laws and (2) repeal minimum-wage laws. I grew up in Laredo, Texas, which is located on the U.S.-Mexico border. In the 1950s, Laredoans were told that we were living in ...
Apple’s New iPhone and European Statism by Jacob G. Hornberger September 20, 2023 Apple’s new iPhone 15 demonstrates one of the principle features of European society — the fact that European political regimes wield the power to regulate, control, and direct economic activity. The new iPhone now carries a USB-C charging port, rather than the proprietary lightning charging port that Apple has long been using. While Apple’s decision to change the charging port was ...
More on America’s Immigration Police State by Jacob G. Hornberger September 19, 2023 Yesterday, in my article "Our Immigration Police State," I wrote about aspects of the immigration police state that comes with America’s socialist system of immigration controls. These police-state measures include warrantless searches of farms and ranches within 100 miles of the border and the criminalization of American citizens who hire, transport, or harbor illegal immigrants. It is this aspect of America’s ...
Our Immigration Police State by Jacob G. Hornberger September 18, 2023 When I was a kid growing up on farm on the Rio Grande outside Laredo, Texas, my dad hired illegal immigrants to help us harvest the crops we were growing on our farm. My brother and I would work out in the fields with them baling hay, and I can tell you out without any equivocation whatsoever that they were the hardest working ...
What is Capitalism? September 21, 2023 In this episode of the Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the features of a genuine capitalist ...
The Government’s Antitrust Suit against Google September 15, 2023 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the ramifications of the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit ...
FFF’s Upcoming Austrian Economics Conference September 11, 2023 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard talk about FFF's upcoming online Zoom conference on Austrian ...
The JFK Assassination: 60 Years Later — Episode 21 September 7, 2023 Episode 20 | Episode 21 In this final episode of the series, Jacob explains the ingenious way ...