Battlefield America Is the New Normal by John W. Whitehead August 30, 2017 “If we’re training cops as soldiers, giving them equipment like soldiers, dressing them up as soldiers, when are they going to pick up the mentality of soldiers? If you look at the police department, their creed is to protect and to serve. A soldier’s mission is to engage his enemy in close combat and kill him. ...
“Liberal Socialism” Another False Utopia by Richard M. Ebeling August 28, 2017 Very often bad and failed ideas do not die, they simply reappear during periods of supposed social and political crisis in slightly different intellectual garb, and offer “solutions” that would merely help to bring about some of the very types of crises for which they once again claim to have the answers. Socialism in its various “progressive” mutations represents ...
Freedom for the Speech We Hate by John W. Whitehead August 24, 2017 “If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”— Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes There was a time in this country, back when ...
The Libertarian Angle: Racism and Civil War Statues by Future of Freedom Foundation August 23, 2017 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the recent controversy over civil war statues and the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Go to the podcast.
Cows and Cannabis by Laurence M. Vance August 22, 2017 Lynching is on the rise. No, it is not occurring in the Deep South. No, it is not being perpetrated by white men. And no, it is not being done because of the color of someone’s skin. Lynching is occurring in India. It is being carried out by Hindus. And it is being done because of someone’s diet. India is ...
Austrian Monetary Theory vs. Federal Reserve Inflation Targeting by Richard M. Ebeling August 21, 2017 One of the leading policy guideposts for central banks and many monetary policy proponents nowadays is the idea of “inflation targeting.” Several major central banks around the world, including the Federal Reserve in the United States, have set a goal of two percent price inflation. The problem is, what central bankers are targeting is a phantom that does not ...
The Libertarian Angle: The North Korea Crisis by Future of Freedom Foundation August 15, 2017 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discussing rising tensions with North Korea. Go to the podcast.
Ten Years On: Recession, Recovery and the Regulatory State by Richard M. Ebeling August 14, 2017 What we now know to have been one of the worst economic and financial crises of the post-World War II period began about ten years ago in 2007. Various retrospective commentaries have focused on the severity of the economic downturn, its impact on different markets and segments of the population, and the lessons from it. An especially important lesson ...
The Libertarian Angle: Q&A on Open Borders by Future of Freedom Foundation August 10, 2017 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling answer questions from viewers on open borders. Go to the podcast.
Anything Goes When You’re a Cop in America by John W. Whitehead August 9, 2017 There is one criminal justice system for citizens—especially black and brown ones—and another for police in the United States. —Redditt Hudson, former St. Louis police officer President Trump needs to be reminded that no one is above the law, especially the police. Unfortunately, Trump and Jeff Sessions, head of the Justice Department (much like their predecessors) appear ...
Support Our “End the Drug War” Conferences by Jacob G. Hornberger August 9, 2017 In 2006, a 38-year-old Texas woman named Carol Denise Richardson was convicted of cocaine possession. A federal judge sentenced her to life in prison. Last year, after she had served ten years of her life term, President Obama ordered her release from prison, conditioned on ten years of supervised release. A few weeks ago, ...
Tyrants of the Mind and the New Collectivism by Richard M. Ebeling August 7, 2017 The current counter-revolution against liberty is being fought on a number of fronts in American society. One is on the college and university campuses across the country, where the ideology of “political correctness” is strangling the principle and practice of freedom of speech and the ideal of intellectual controversy and debate. Critical to this campaign against free expression and open ...