FFF Webinar: Work! (video) by Sheldon Richman June 17, 2014 On Wednesday, June 11, 2014, FFF vice president and editor Sheldon Richman hosted a free, interactive online webinar entitled “Work!” This was an interactive experience with Sheldon and was be limited to 24 participants.
The Libertarian Angle: The Iraq Debacle by Future of Freedom Foundation June 16, 2014 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: the continuing debacle in Iraq. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
The Libertarian Angle: Amazon, NSA, and Bergdahl by Future of Freedom Foundation June 9, 2014 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: Amazon, the National Security Agency, and Bergdahl. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
The Defining Challenge of our Time by George Leef June 1, 2014 Why Liberty — Your Life, Your Choices, Your Future edited by Tom G. Palmer (Jameson Books 2013) 116 pages. With this short, easily read, yet intellectually powerful book, Tom Palmer continues his work of making libertarianism the philosophy that will appeal to and animate young people around the globe. While the arguments for vastly downsizing our enormous, meddlesome, and ...
Libertarian Angle: Guantanámo, Taxation, and Immigration by Future of Freedom Foundation May 27, 2014 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: Guantanámo, taxation, and immigration. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
The Libertarian Angle: Insider Trading, Militarism, and Patriotism by Future of Freedom Foundation May 19, 2014 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: insider trading, militarism, and patriotism. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
TGIF: Rothbard’s For a New Liberty by Sheldon Richman May 16, 2014 In 1973, nine years before he published his magnum opus in political philosophy, The Ethics of Liberty, Murray Rothbard issued a comprehensive popular presentation of the libertarian philosophy in For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, first published by the mainstream publisher Macmillan. The book is an excellent discussion of libertarian principles and applications, and it ...
The Virtues of Libertarianism by Jacob G. Hornberger May 15, 2014 The principle that undergirds the libertarian philosophy is what is known as the nonaggression principle. It holds that people should be free to live their lives in any way they choose, making whatever choices they wish to make, but with one condition: that their conduct must be peaceful (and nonfraudulent). Thus, libertarianism condemns any action that involves the initiation of ...
FFF Webinar: What Social Animals Owe to Each Other (video) by Sheldon Richman May 15, 2014 On May 14, 2014, FFF vice president and editor Sheldon Richman will hosted a free, interactive online webinar entitled “What Social Animals Owe to Each Other.” This was an interactive experience with Sheldon and was limited to 24 participants.
The Libertarian Angle: Drug War and World War II by Future of Freedom Foundation May 12, 2014 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman talk about the drug war and World War II. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
TGIF: Rothbard’s The Ethics of Liberty: Still Worthy after All These Years by Sheldon Richman May 9, 2014 In 1982 Murray Rothbard published his magnum opus in political philosophy, The Ethics of Liberty. It is a tour de force, a remarkable presentation of the moral case for political freedom. What a complement to Man, Economy, and State and Power and Market, Rothbard’s towering contributions to our understanding of free markets! The first ...
TGIF: Libertarianism Rightly Conceived by Sheldon Richman May 2, 2014 The debate on thick and thin libertarianism continues, and that’s a good thing. Libertarians can only gain by the discussion. Often one comes to appreciate one’s own philosophy more fully in the crucible of intellectual argument. So I, for one, welcome the debate — so long as it is a real debate and not merely a series of unsupported denials ...