Daily Articles

The Libertarian Angle: The Fear of Freedom

by Future of Freedom Foundation August 2, 2017

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss paternalism and how it fosters a fear of individual liberty. Go to the podcast.

The National Security-State and JFK, Part 1

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 1, 2017

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 In 1954 the CIA published a top-secret classified document titled “A Study of Assassination.” The document confirms that within seven years of the CIA’s founding in 1947, the agency was specializing in the art of assassination. There are various fascinating aspects of the study. One ...

The FBI’s Forgotten Criminal Record

by James Bovard August 1, 2017

President Trump’s firing of FBI chief James Comey on May 9 spurred much of the media and many Democrats to rally around America’s most powerful domestic federal agency. But the FBI has a long record of both deceit and incompetence. Five years ago, Americans learned that the FBI was teaching its agents that “the FBI has the ability to ...

Free the Fire Stations!

by Laurence M. Vance August 1, 2017

Many boys, at one time or another when they are growing up, become enamored with firetrucks after taking a school field trip to their local fire station. Some of them will then insist that they want to be firemen when then grow up. They want such an occupation because of the excitement and the adventure they envision — and, ...

Wartime Tyranny against Eugene Debs

by David S. D'Amato August 1, 2017

Civil rights do not fare well in wartime, tested against the feverish jingoism of the martial spirit. As the old adage goes, inter armas silent leges — in war the law is silent. In the United States, liberty has too often been sacrificed (without hesitation, we might add) to the gods of wars, forced to prostrate herself before them, ...

Integrity and Leadership

by Leonard Read August 1, 2017

Some years ago the public relations officer of a large corporation summarized for me his guiding principle: “Find out what the people want and do more of it; find out what they don’t want and do less of it.” While seldom so succinctly stated, such an external, “other directed” guide to behavior is finding ever wider acceptance in American life. ...

America’s Turn toward Empire

by Matthew Harwood August 1, 2017

The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire by Stephen Kinzer (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2017; 320 pages) Sen. Mark Hanna, a Republican from Ohio and President William McKinley’s campaign manager, couldn’t contain himself. How could the delegates to the Republican National Convention not see through the man wearing a ...

Freedom and the Fear of Self-Responsibility

by Richard M. Ebeling July 31, 2017

Liberty is under a renewed challenge and attack in the contemporary world. From “political correctness” and its accompanying growing totalitarian closed-mindedness at institutions of higher learning in both America and Europe, to the rebirth of economic nationalism with its rejection of freedom of trade, investment and people in places like the United States, along with the continuing stranglehold of ...

Policing for Profit

by John W. Whitehead July 27, 2017

Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle — a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied ...

Help FFF End the Racist Drug War

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 26, 2017

Please help FFF bring its "End the Drug War" program to historically black colleges and universities. You can donate here.

The Libertarian Angle: Libertarianism and Healthcare

by Future of Freedom Foundation July 25, 2017

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the recent debate over universal healthcare. Go to the podcast.

Global Corruption and the Role of Government

by Richard M. Ebeling July 24, 2017

The corruption of government officials seems to be as old as recorded history. For example, the ancient Roman senate passed laws against such political corruption in the first century, B.C. They defined a corrupt act as “whenever money is taken and a publicly-conferred duty is violated.” Local magistrates in the Roman Empire were permitted to legally receive cash gifts of ...