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The Libertarian Angle: Ebeling’s 10 Favorite Books & Authors: Ayn Rand

by Future of Freedom Foundation September 25, 2018

Richard Ebeling is the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel. He became a libertarian while still in high school and has been involved in the libertarian movement for many decades. Who did he look up to? What books have influenced him the most? Richard and FFF president Jacob Hornberger ... [click for more]

How to Drain the Swamp: End the Failed War on Drugs, Part 2

by David Stockman September 24, 2018

Part 1 | Part 2 According to the most comprehensive investigations, the United States spends nearly $50 billion per year on the war on drugs — including about $34 billion annually at the state and local level for police, courts, and incarceration. By contrast, it is estimated that were drugs to be legalized and taxed at the ... [click for more]

Richard Ebeling’s Top Favorite Books: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

by Richard M. Ebeling September 24, 2018

Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal (1967) was my first real introduction to individualist and free market ideas when I was a teenager. I only read Ayn Rand's novels later after this one and The Virtue of Selfishness. I had been interested in politics and current events, but ... [click for more]

The JFK Assassination, Episode 13

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 21, 2018

In this series of short videos, FFF president Jacob Hornberger summarizes and details the circumstantial evidence pointing toward the U.S. national-security state as the orchestrator of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Watch the entire series. Go to the podcast. [click for more]

Adherence to Principle: My Talk to the Tidewater Libertarian Party

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 20, 2018

This is a talk delivered on August 18, 2018, by Jacob Hornberger, president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, to the Tidewater, Virginia, Libertarian Party. [click for more]

A Real Agenda for a Renewal of Free Market Liberalism

by Richard M. Ebeling September 20, 2018

To mark its 175th birthday, the highly regarded and widely read British news magazine The Economist published a “manifesto” in its September 15, 2018, issue outlining its agenda for a renewed and relevant political and economic liberalism for the 21st century. But can it restore the liberal ideal at a time when liberalism is under attack from so many ... [click for more]

Freedom Frauds: Obama’s Forgotten Constitutional Depredations

by James Bovard September 19, 2018

Bureaucratic bulldozing? Groping TSA agents? Federal secrecy and aggressive prosecution of journalists? This is the legacy that Obama passed to Trump. [click for more]

Suspending the Constitution

by John W. Whitehead September 19, 2018

“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.”—Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale We can pretend that the Constitution, which was written to hold the government accountable, ... [click for more]

The Libertarian Angle: Interventionism and National Security Statism

by Future of Freedom Foundation September 18, 2018

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling are pleased to have as a guest Cato Institute senior fellow Ted Galen Carpenter to discuss foreign policy. Go to the podcast. [click for more]

Economic Straight Talk: The Contributions of Ludwig von Mises

by Richard M. Ebeling September 17, 2018

Economic Straight Talk unmasks the economic fallacies behind many government policies, and explains the benefits from economic freedom — greater individual liberty that increases people’s freedom of choice and widens the free market competition that makes a better world for all of us. [click for more]

The JFK Assassination, Episode 12

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 14, 2018

In this series of short videos, FFF president Jacob Hornberger summarizes and details the circumstantial evidence pointing toward the U.S. national-security state as the orchestrator of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Watch the entire series. Go to the podcast. [click for more]

Macro Aggregates Hide the Real Market Processes at Work

by Richard M. Ebeling September 13, 2018

For the 12 months that ended in July 2018, price inflation in the United States, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, was 2.9 percent. That is, a basket of goods that cost $100 in July 2017 increased in expense by almost $3 by July 2018. But is this sort of index really all that needs to be emphasized ... [click for more]