Free Society

Run for Your Life

by John W. Whitehead April 19, 2017

We’ve reached the point where state actors can penetrate rectums and vaginas, where judges can order forced catheterizations, and where police and medical personnel can perform scans, enemas and colonoscopies without the suspect’s consent. And these procedures aren’t to nab kingpins or cartels, but people who at worst are hiding an amount of drugs that can fit into a ...

When Government Evil Triumphs, Freedom Falls

by John W. Whitehead April 5, 2017

“Government is said to be a necessary evil. The saying appears to be without merit. For can anything be at once necessary and evil? True, all governments have had a history of evil-doing, more or less. However, it does not follow from this experience that their good is indistinguishable from their evil. Governments—assuming a proper limitation of their activities—are ...

Stealing from the Citizenry

by John W. Whitehead March 21, 2017

“Civil forfeiture laws represent one of the most serious assaults on private property rights in the nation today. Under civil forfeiture, police and prosecutors can seize your car or other property, sell it and use the proceeds to fund agency budgets—all without so much as charging you with a crime. Unlike criminal forfeiture, where property is taken ...

The Government Is Still the Enemy of Freedom

by John W. Whitehead March 9, 2017

Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country, is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter. Sooner or later, the people in this country are gonna realize the government … doesn’t ...

Muhammad Ali and America’s Slave Society

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 27, 2017

In an era in which vilification of Islam and Muslims has become a popular activity for many, it was ironic and somewhat humorous to see nearly everyone in American celebrating the life of Muhammad Ali, who was undoubtedly the most famous American Muslim in U.S. history. As most people know, it wasn’t always like that. When Ali refused to comply ...

The Libertarian Angle: The Meaning of Freedom

by Future of Freedom Foundation February 16, 2017

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about what it means to be free, what it means to live in a free society. Go to the podcast.

The FBI: The Silent Terror of the Fourth Reich

by John W. Whitehead February 9, 2017

“After five years of Hitler’s dictatorship, the Nazi police had won the FBI’s seal of approval.”— Historian Robert Gellately “Adolf Hitler is alive and well in the United States, and he is fast rising to power.”—Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, on the danger posed by the FBI to our civil liberties Lately, there’s ...

The Libertarian Angle: Welfare versus Charity

by Future of Freedom Foundation February 7, 2017

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about the differences between voluntary charity and coerced "charity." Go to the podcast.

Rule by Brute Force

by John W. Whitehead February 2, 2017

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”—Ayn Rand The torch has been passed to a new president. All of the

Has the American Dream Become the American Nightmare?

by John W. Whitehead January 25, 2017

“Most Germans, so far as I could see, did not seem to mind that their personal freedom had been taken away, that so much of their splendid culture was being destroyed and replaced with a mindless barbarism, or that their life and work were being regimented to a degree never before experienced even by a people accustomed for generations ...

Nothing Is Real

by John W. Whitehead January 20, 2017

“There are two ways by which the spirit of a culture may be shriveled. In the first—the Orwellian—culture becomes a prison. In the second—the Huxleyan—culture becomes a burlesque. No one needs to be reminded that our world is now marred by many prison-cultures…. it makes little difference if our wardens are inspired by right- or left-wing ideologies. The gates ...

The Titanic Sails at Dawn

by John W. Whitehead January 6, 2017

“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters Despite our best efforts, we in the American police state seem to be stuck on repeat, reliving the same set of circumstances over and over and over again: egregious surveillance, strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, government spying, censorship, retaliatory arrests, ...