Daily Articles

The Libertarian Angle: Ebeling’s Favorite Authors: Henry Hazlitt

by Future of Freedom Foundation November 28, 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 ...

Marijuana Wins Again

by Laurence M. Vance November 28, 2018

In the recent election, some Democrats won and some lost. Likewise, some Republicans won and some lost. There is one “candidate,” however, who won on most of the ballots “he” appeared on: marijuana. According to Ballotpedia, “Voters in 37 states decided 155 statewide ballot measures in November 2018.” A total of 167 statewide ballot measures were certified ...

Freedom Frauds: The ‘Truth Will Out’ Fairy Tale

by James Bovard November 27, 2018

Truth will out? Really? Truth will out is the biggest fairy tale in Washington. From the Warren Commission, to the Gulf of Tonkin, to WMD in Iraq, the truth has not accomplished much. Go to the audio podcast. View other episodes of Freedom Frauds.

Ludwig von Mises on Liberalism, Nationalism, and Self-Determination

by Richard M. Ebeling November 26, 2018

Ludwig von Mises was one of the most important Austrian economists of the 20th century, having left his mark on economic theory and policy by demonstrating that socialist central planning was inherently unworkable because of the abolition of a market-based pricing system for purposes of economic calculation, and by developing a theory of the business cycle that argued that ...

Freedom Frauds: My Biggest East Bloc Bust

by James Bovard November 21, 2018

Here’s the story of how Jim blundered into an East German Interrogation Comedy Show while traveling illegally behind the Iron Curtain. Go to the audio podcast. View other episodes of Freedom Frauds.

The Libertarian Angle: Thanksgiving, Socialism, and Capitalism

by Future of Freedom Foundation November 20, 2018

Here is a lesson on Thanksgiving from Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling. Go to the podcast.

Pay Your Blessings Forward

by John W. Whitehead November 20, 2018

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”—John F. Kennedy Listen: I know it’s been a hard, heart-wrenching, stomach-churning kind of year. It’s been a year of hotheads and blowhards and killing sprees and bloodshed and takedowns. It’s been a year in which tyranny took a few ...

The JFK Assassination, Episode 21

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 16, 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.

Presidential Hubris: “Let Me Run the Country”

by Richard M. Ebeling November 16, 2018

The television news cycle and social media have been filled with comments and criticisms concerning the combative exchange of words between the current president and CNN reporter James Acosta during a recent White House press conference. What seemingly received little or no attention were the words that Donald Trump used in describing his role as the president of the ...

Freedom Frauds: Hitchhiking to an Antiwar Awakening

by James Bovard November 15, 2018

My hitchhiking follies led to a bus station where I met a drunken Vietnam vet who helped me understand atrocities. Go to the audio podcast. View other episodes of Freedom Frauds.

Yet Another Government Weapon for Compliance and Control

by John W. Whitehead November 15, 2018

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana We never learn. In the right (or wrong) hands, benevolent plans can easily be put to malevolent purposes. Even the most well-intentioned government law or program can be—and has been—perverted, corrupted and used to advance illegitimate purposes once profit and power are added to the equation. The war on ...

The Libertarian Angle: The Horrific Consequences of WWI

by Future of Freedom Foundation November 14, 2018

Should the United States have been involved in World War I? Did it make the world safe for democracy, or was it the recipe for a violence-filled 20th century? Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.