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America at the Crossroads of Civil Liberties in the 21st Century (video)

by Jonathan Turley February 25, 2014

"America at the Crossroads of Civil Liberties in the 21st Century" by Jonathan Turley was a speech sponsored by The Future of Freedom Foundation February 15, 2014 at the 2014 International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington D.C.

Imperial Overreach and the National Security State (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation February 24, 2014

"Imperial Overreach and the National Security State" with Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick, and Jeremy Scahill. This panel was sponsored by The Future of Freedom Foundation February 15, 2014 at the 2014 International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington D.C.

Press About Oliver Stone-Peter Kuznick-Jeremy Scahill FFF Panel at SFL Conference

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 24, 2014

The following is a list of articles written about the FFF panel at the Students for Liberty conference in Washington, D.C., on February 14-16, 2014. The panel consisted of Oliver Stone, the Academy Award Winning Hollywood director, Peter Kuznick, Stone's collaborator on their Showtime series "Untold History," and Jeremy Scahill, whose film "Dirty Wars" received an Academy Award nomination ...

The Libertarian Angle: FFF’s Program at the Students for Liberty Conference (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation February 24, 2014

Jacob and Sheldon discuss FFF's conference within a conference at the 2014 International Students for Liberty Conference. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly.

The Logic of Crisis and Leviathan and Why It Still Holds (video)

by Robert Higgs February 19, 2014

On February 17, 2014 Robert Higgs presented the above speech as part of the ongoing Economic Liberty Lecture Series, a joint project of The Future of Freedom Foundation and the George Mason University Economics Society. Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor at Large of the Institute's quarterly journal ...

Social Security Has Not Changed

by Laurence M. Vance February 18, 2014

The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) is touting the changes to Social Security for 2014. Instituted during the New Deal, Social Security, a federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program, provides monthly benefits for retirement, disability, survivorship, and death to about 57 million Americans, including survivors and dependents. Social Security is “funded” by a payroll tax deduction ...

FFF Webinar: Libertarianism: The Moral and the Practical

by Sheldon Richman February 18, 2014

On February 12, 2014, FFF vice president and editor Sheldon Richman hosted a free, interactive online webinar entitled “Libertarianism: The Moral and the Practical.” This was an interactive experience with Sheldon and the participants. The audio and Sheldon's slides are presented above.

An Awesome Conference!

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 17, 2014

Despite the big snow storm that hit Washington, D.C., last Thursday, the annual 2014 Students for Liberty Conference went on as scheduled at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington. It was an awesome experience. I don’t know what the official attendance was but it seemed to be to be in the neighborhood of some 1,400 people, most of whom ...

TGIF: Don’t Get Out the Vote

by Sheldon Richman February 14, 2014

A seminar student once became upset with me for suggesting that instead of running get-out-the-vote campaigns, the government should keep the dates of elections and the locations of polling places secret so that only people with enough initiative and interest to ferret out the information could vote. It was not a serious suggestion, but the college-aged young woman didn’t catch ...

Children Sue in Order to Learn

by Wendy McElroy February 13, 2014

Schoolchildren in Los Angeles are currently pleading in court for the opportunity to learn. They claim bad teachers prevent them from doing so. California’s teachers’ unions are among the most powerful in the nation. California statutes are so skewed in favor of teachers’ job security that even grossly incompetent educators are almost impossible to dismiss. For instance, it can cost ...

The Lethal Legacy of U.S. Foreign Intervention

by Sheldon Richman February 12, 2014

Americans seem to believe that once the U.S. military exits a foreign country, its moral accountability ends. But the deadly consequences — and culpability — continue long after the last soldier leaves. Take Iraq, which the U.S. military left at the end of 2011 (though not before President Obama pleaded with the Iraqi government to let some American forces remain). ...

“Civil Liberties & the National Security State” at the 2014 ISFLC

by Future of Freedom Foundation February 11, 2014

  "Civil Liberties and the National Security State" February 15, 2014 Grand Hyatt, Washington D.C.   FFF's "Conference within a Conference" at the 2014 International Students for Liberty Conference   10:00 am - 10:45 am: “America at the Crossroads of Civil Liberties in the 21st ...