Daily Articles

Freedom Frauds: Are We All Terrorists 17 Years After 9/11?

by James Bovard September 11, 2018

Something wicked this way comes? The War on Terrorism has has turned our country into a surveillance society where everyone is a terrorist. Jim Bovard launches his new video podcast series with this inaugural episode. Go to the audio podcast. View other episodes of Freedom Frauds.

The Libertarian Angle: The Free State Project (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation September 11, 2018

What is The Free State Project? Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling welcome FSP founder Jason Sorens. Go to the podcast.

The Latest Conservative Defense of Tariffs

by Laurence M. Vance September 10, 2018

For many years now, some conservatives, in their magazine and web articles criticizing government-managed trade agreements such as NAFTA and CAFTA, have made veiled criticisms of free trade. But no more. Since the beginning of the year, when Donald Trump started imposing protective tariffs on selected items from certain countries, those conservatives have begun to openly criticize free trade and ...

Libertarian Lessons: Free Trade

by Scott McPherson September 7, 2018

Trade is commonly understood to be an economic activity carried on between countries, which is incorrect. Trade takes place between individuals, or groups of individuals, both domestically and across international boundaries. At its core it is the voluntary exchange of private property. Human beings must act to sustain their lives. Before industrialization the vast majority of people lived in shared poverty, their agrarian ...

The JFK Assassination, Episode 11

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 7, 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.

The Market Democracy vs. Democratic Socialism

by Richard M. Ebeling September 6, 2018

Warnings are frequently heard nowadays that democracy is currently under threat. And with a demise of democracy will come a loss of liberty. Indeed, democracy and freedom are frequently heralded as being synonyms. An important question, however, is, What do these concepts mean, and are they in fact synonymous? A useful place to start is with a famous lecture delivered ...

Criminalizing Childhood

by John W. Whitehead September 6, 2018

“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. From metal detectors to drug tests, from increased policing to all-seeing electronic surveillance, the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society ...

The Libertarian Angle: Child Labor Laws

by Future of Freedom Foundation September 5, 2018

Children's rights are one of the toughest areas that the libertarian philosophy addresses. How does libertarianism apply to the regulation of child labor? Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.

Food-Stamp Republicans

by Laurence M. Vance September 5, 2018

Libertarians couldn’t be more different from Republicans. Just look at what Republicans are saying — and not saying — about Donald Trump and food stamps. The federal food-stamp program (officially called SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) is administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, but is operated by the ...

The Day the Justice Department Accused Me of Jury Tampering

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 4, 2018

In the summer of 1975, I returned to my hometown of Laredo, Texas, to begin the practice of law with my father, who had been a lawyer in Laredo since the end of World War II. I had just graduated from law school at the University of Texas and had just secured my law license from the state of ...

Full Program – Non-interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy

by Future of Freedom Foundation September 3, 2018

This program, entitled “Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy,”was presented in Charleston, South Carolina on April 29, 2018 and co-sponsored with The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.  

U.S. Policy toward Cuba Attacked America’s Freedom and Values

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2018

The decades-long U.S. interventionist policy against Cuba failed to achieve its goal of removing Fidel Castro from power and replacing him with a pro-U.S. regime, similar to the pro-U.S. Batista regime that the Cuban revolution ousted from power in 1959. More important, interventionism against Cuba ended up attacking the freedom and values of the American people. During the Cold War, ...