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Post-Covid Policy Advice from Ludwig von Mises for Developing Countries

by Richard M. Ebeling March 2, 2021

The coronavirus and the government responses with shutdowns and lockdowns, along with restrictions on international travel and disruptions of the global supply chains that crisscross countries and continents, have made a fuller and more rapid recovery difficult in the Western industrialized countries, but even more so in many places in what used to be called during the Cold War, ...

The National-Security State and the Kennedy Assassination

by Future of Freedom Foundation March 1, 2021

The national-security establishment's assassination of President John F. Kennedy was one of the pivotal events in our lifetime, and it continues to have an adverse impact on American life today. This conference will be oriented toward people who are not well-versed in the assassination and who wish to gain ...

The Abby Honold Act Will Gut Justice

by Wendy McElroy March 1, 2021

You are hauled in by the police and accused of rape. Being innocent, you demand to know details of the accusation: when, where did the crime occur, and on what’s the evidence? The police respond, “the young woman’s allegation is the only evidence, and her account has shifted several times about when and where. Now prove you did not ...

Letter to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

by Lawrence P. Schnapf February 25, 2021

Note: This letter was written by Larry Schnapf, a New York City attorney, to Carolyn Maloney, Chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in reference to release of records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which have been kept sealed for more than 50 years. February 24, 2021 Hon. Carolyn B. Maloney Chair- House Committee ...

Socialism-in-Practice Was a Nightmare, Not Utopia

by Richard M. Ebeling February 24, 2021

It is amazing sometimes how really short humanity’s historical memory can be. Listening to some in American academia and on social media, you would think that socialism was a bright, new, and shiny idea never tried before that promises a beautiful future of peace, love, and bountifulness for all. It is as if a hundred years of socialism-in-practice in ...

The Slippery Slope from Censoring ‘Disinformation’ to Silencing Truth

by John W. Whitehead February 23, 2021

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”― George Orwell This is the slippery slope that leads to the end of free speech as we once knew it. In a world increasingly automated and filtered through the lens of artificial intelligence, we are finding ourselves at the mercy of ...

Three Libertarian Principles for Education

by Laurence M. Vance February 22, 2021

Although the presidency and both Houses of Congress are now controlled by Democrats, some conservatives still think that they can have some influence on the federal government’s education polices. A case in point is a new report by Michael Q. McShane of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), “Where Conservatives Should Lead on Federal Education Policy in 2021.” ...

The Case for Freedom in Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, and Ayn Rand

by Richard M. Ebeling February 18, 2021

Three names are widely associated with the cause of human freedom and economic liberty in the twentieth century: Friedrich A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Ayn Rand. Indeed, it can be argued that Hayek’s Road to Serfdom (1944) and Constitution of Liberty (1960), Mises’s Socialism (1936) and Human Action (1949), and Rand’s novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged ...

End Subway Socialism in New York City

by Gregory Bresiger February 17, 2021

The misery will continue for New York subway riders, who don’t understand how previous subway reforms have failed. State and city officials concede things will worsen. “There is no question our subways are in crisis after decades of underinvestment and inaction,” wrote New York City Comptroller Scott Stinger in a recent report. “The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA),” writes New York State ...

The Bankruptcy of Conservative Political Paternalism

by Richard M. Ebeling February 16, 2021

Political paternalism – the belief that those in government possess more knowledge, wisdom, and ability to plan, guide, and direct various aspects of people’s lives better than those people themselves – comes in many forms. The American “progressive” movement is euphoric with being, once again, close to power with the new Biden Administration in the hope of intensifying and ...

Impeach the Deep State for Its Conspiracy to Kill the Constitution

by John W. Whitehead February 15, 2021

All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger ...

The VMI Controversy

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 11, 2021

Last year, the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Virginia, came under scrutiny for alleged acts of racial discrimination against black members of the corps of cadets. The controversy began with an article in the Washington Post, which was followed by a call by the governor of Virginia for an official state investigation into racism at VMI. Under pressure, ...