Attorney General Barr: Defender of FBI Snipers by James Bovard July 22, 2019 Donald Trump’s second attorney general, William Barr, was widely praised during his confirmation process earlier this year. Trump hailed Barr as “one ...
Simon Newcomb and the Let-Alone Principle by Richard M. Ebeling July 19, 2019 Wherever we turn, there are some people who are busy telling the rest of us how we should live; with whom we ...
Protect the Right to Criticize the Government by John W. Whitehead July 18, 2019 “Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those ...
What Would a Free Society Actually Look Like? by Laurence M. Vance July 17, 2019 It is a common occurrence at sporting events. Someone is singing the U.S. national anthem — “The Star-Spangled Banner” — and when he gets ...
The Libertarian Angle: Busing and Public Schooling (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation July 16, 2019 Government and schooling--what could go wrong? FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard Ebeling discuss the busing programs ...
Advancing Liberty Through Principles by Jacob G. Hornberger July 16, 2019 A film company has just completed a short and succinct promotional video for The Future of Freedom Foundation that ...
Ruler of the World by Jacob G. Hornberger July 22, 2019 Recently released secret documents from Chinese company Huawei provide insights into how the U.S. Empire rules the world. According to the Washington Post, the documents reveal that Huawei secretly helped North Korea “build and maintain the country’s commercial wireless network.” What’s wrong with that? you ask. It violates U.S. sanctions against North Korea! What do U.S. ...
Immigration Hypocrisy, Left and Right by Jacob G. Hornberger July 19, 2019 You couldn’t find a better example of hypocrisy among both conservatives and liberals (i.e., progressives, leftists) than in the area on immigration. Conservatives love to wrap themselves in free-market, capitalist lingo. They tell us that they are fierce opponents of socialism. Their favorite mantra is “free enterprise, private property, and limited government.” You might even find them quoting Milton Friedman ...
Hating America After 9/11 by Jacob G. Hornberger July 18, 2019 Listening to President Trump accuse Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of supporting al-Qaeda reminds me of how conservatives behaved toward libertarians who dared talk about motive immediately after the 9/11 attacks. At the time of those attacks, some of us libertarians understood that this was a watershed event in U.S. history, one that would inevitably adversely affect the rights and liberties of ...
Trump’s Trade War Destroys Liberty and Prosperity by Jacob G. Hornberger July 17, 2019 President Trump announced this week that America is "winning" the trade war that he initiated against China. The truth is that Trump is not only destroying businesses in both China and the United States, he is accelerating the destruction of American liberty. Trump crowed, “We’ve taken in tens of billions of dollars in tariffs from China.” Well, that might well be ...
The Libertarian Angle: Busing and Public Schooling July 16, 2019 Government and schooling--what could go wrong? FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard Ebeling discuss the ...
Adhering to Principle July 11, 2019 The mission of The Future of Freedom Foundation is to advance freedom by providing an uncompromising moral ...
The Libertarian Angle: Misunderstanding Socialism July 11, 2019 Socialism is growing in popularity with the young. One socialist society has failed after the other, and ...
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 ...
