The America That Was — The Good and the Bad by Richard M. Ebeling April 1, 2019 We live in a time when an understanding and an appreciation of what a free society can or should be like is being slowly lost. Or so it seems, often, to a friend of human liberty. Political interventionism and a revived interest in “democratic socialism” dominate public discourse in almost every corner of life. Calls are constantly being made for ...
Afghanistan Exit: Swift, Responsible Disengagement, Part 1 by Danny Sjursen April 1, 2019 Part 1 | Part 2 The United States has been at war in Afghanistan for more than seventeen years. Despite many years of effort and billions spent, the U.S. military is still suffering casualties in that remote land. In 2017, fourteen American soldiers died in Afghanistan — some, in fact, shot from behind by their supposed local allies. Already, ...
A Gross Violation of the Constitution by Laurence M. Vance March 28, 2019 Although Donald Trump had a Republican majority in Congress for the first two years of his presidency, he failed to obtain funding to build his signature wall between the United States and Mexico. Yet now that the Democrats control the House, he is more determined than ever to build his wall. But never mind the Congress, just declare a national ...
No Sanitized Pages in History, Please! by Richard M. Ebeling March 26, 2019 Imagine that in 1946 the general-secretary of the United Nations had submitted a resolution to the General Assembly stating that Nazi crimes were so horrendous and despicable that the countries of the world needed to impose a blanket censorship on any public reference to or discussion of Hitler or his henchmen. Only the names of victims were to be ...
Don’t Shoot the Dogs by John W. Whitehead March 22, 2019 “In too much of policing today, officer safety has become the highest priority. It trumps the rights and safety of suspects. It trumps the rights and safety of bystanders. It’s so important, in fact, that an officer’s subjective fear of a minor wound from a dog bite is enough to justify using potentially lethal force, ...
Clarity on Diversity and Pluralism by Richard M. Ebeling March 21, 2019 Freedom and the free society are once again under direct attack by those who espouse far-greater degrees of government control over people’s lives. Wrapping themselves in the cloak of progressivism, “social justice,” and liberation from oppression and discrimination, they use a lexicon of words that are designed to reflect their view of and desires for the world: diversity, inclusiveness, ...
Libertarians and Abortion by Christine Smith March 20, 2019 As issues of life and death become more pronounced in our society, it is time for those who value freedom, liberty, and nonaggression to re-examine their political position on abortion. The United States is experiencing a resurgence of those who not only condone abortion (and its federal funding) but also seek to extend it to include born infants — now ...
The Libertarian Angle: National Debt and the Debt Ceiling (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation March 19, 2019 The national debt keeps going up and the federal budget keeps running in the red. Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.
The Student Debt Conundrum by Laurence M. Vance March 18, 2019 Using data from the Federal Reserve, Student Loan Hero — an organization that provides “resources, tools and information” to help “student loan borrowers understand their student loans and make intelligent repayment decisions” — reports that Among the Class of 2018, 69% of college students took out student loans, and they graduated with an average debt of ...
Political Contests Are Between Competing Socialisms by Richard M. Ebeling March 15, 2019 Another election cycle has begun, even though it is less than a half a year since the November 2018 congressional elections. Donald Trump seems unlikely to face a serious challenger for his re-nomination as the Republican candidate for president (unless explosive revelations place his public standing in serious doubt in the coming months). But the Democratic field already has ...
War Spending Is Bankrupting America by John W. Whitehead March 13, 2019 “Pity the nation whose people are sheep And whose shepherds mislead them Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced And whose bigots haunt the airwaves Pity the nation that raises not its voice Except to praise conquerors And acclaim the bully as hero And aims to rule the world By force and by torture… Pity the nation oh pity the people
The Libertarian Angle: The Virtues of Free Trade (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation March 12, 2019 Free trade is the most efficient system of resource distribution yet discovered, but more importantly, it is moral and a key feature of the free society. FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel economics professor Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.