Bernie Sanders: Revolutionary Stuck in Reverse by Will Tippens February 11, 2016 I get why people like Bernie Sanders. He seems like a genuine person. Most of his funding comes from grassroots donors and he has a mostly deserved outsider status. He’s honest about his political beliefs, and isn’t afraid to call himself a socialist. He has all the rancorous charm of Peter Finch in the 1976 film, Network : He’s ...
America’s Fiscal Debt Bomb Caused by the Welfare State by Richard M. Ebeling February 10, 2016 Portuguese The news is filled with the everyday zigzags of those competing against each other for the Democrat and Republican Party nominations to run for the presidency of the United States. But one of the most important issues receiving little or no attention in this circus of political power lusting is the long-term danger from the ...
The Drug War Against Black America (video) by Radley Balko February 10, 2016 This is a speech delivered by Washington Post columnist Radley Balko at a conference entitled "The Drug War Against Black America" held on November 14, 2015, at Morgan State University in Baltimore. The conference was co-sponsored by The Future of Freedom Foundation and the Pre-Law Association at Morgan State. The introducer is a member ...
The Libertarian Angle: History of Economic Thought, Part 4 by Future of Freedom Foundation February 9, 2016 In this segment, Richard Ebeling and Jacob Hornberger discuss the rise of the Austrian school of economic thought and its contributions.
Joseph Schumpeter: the “Father” of Capitalist “Creative Destruction” by Richard M. Ebeling February 8, 2016 Today is Austrian-born economist, Joseph A. Schumpeter’s, birthday. Born on February 8, 1883, he died on January 8, 1950. Schumpeter is famous as a leading 20th century formulator of the notion of the entrepreneur as dynamic innovator of change, and also as a master of the history of economic ideas. Trained as an economist at the University of Vienna in ...
The Clinton-Sanders-Republican Principles of Taxation by Laurence M. Vance February 5, 2016 The number of votes they got at the recent Iowa caucuses is not the only way that former senator Hillary Clinton and current senator Bernie Sanders are very close. Both have proposed new government programs throughout their campaigns. And because their new government programs must be paid for, both Clinton and Sanders have put forward new tax plans to ...
Seema Sadanandan: The Drug War Against Black America (video) by Seema Sadanandan February 5, 2016 The Future of Freedom Foundation and the Morgan State University Pre-Law Association presented a one-day conference on the campus of Morgan State University on Saturday, November 14, 2015, that addressed the war on drugs and its adverse consequences on American society, especially on African-Americans. “The Drug War Against Black America” featured an all-star lineup of ...
Television, Football and Politics: Gaming Spectacles Designed to Keep the Police State in Power by John W. Whitehead February 3, 2016 Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become ...
The Libertarian Angle: History of Economic Thought, Part 3 by Future of Freedom Foundation February 2, 2016 Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the hot topics of the day. In the third installment of this series, Hornberger and Ebeling discuss the perfect-competition model of economic thought that developed from the marginal-utility, subjective-value principles of William Stanley Jevons and Leon Walrus.
Individual Rights Must Be Preserved Without Interference from the Government by Richard M. Ebeling February 1, 2016 What is the role of government in society? This has been and remains the most fundamental question in all political discussions and debates. Its answer determines the nature of the social order and how people are expected and allowed to interact with one another – on the basis of either force or freedom. The alternatives are really rather simple. Government ...
Dalton Trumbo and the Hollywood Blacklist by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2016 I wish every American would see the movie Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston, which was released last November. The movie is based on a true story. It depicts how the U.S. anti-communist crusade during the Cold War damaged or ruined the lives of many innocent people, including Hollywood screen-writer Dalton Trumbo and nine others, who became known as the Hollywood ...
The Census Bureau’s Latest Peril to Freedom by James Bovard February 1, 2016 The Census Bureau is sending its hefty American Community Survey to more than three million households a year. I recently received this 28-page tsunami of questions about everything from my plumbing to my profession to my ethnicity and income. But as a former Census taker who has written about Census controversies for more than 25 years, I distrust this ...