F. A. Hayek and Why Government Can’t Manage Society, Part I by Richard M. Ebeling June 25, 2015 This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. On May 8th, Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied Powers in Europe. On September 2nd, Imperial Japan surrendered to the Allies on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, thus ending a global conflict that is estimated to have cost the lives of upwards of 50 million people. In autumn of 1945, everyone was looking forward, finally, to a world at peace that could recover from the destruction of a catastrophic war and move towards a bright new future. But what kind of world was it to be? Nazism and fascism had been militarily and ideologically pulverized in the conflict. No one wanted to goose-step to Hitler and Mussolini’s grandiose dreams of a world-ruling master race or a war-worshipping aggressive nationalism to which innocent human beings were to be sacrificed. The Postwar Hope for a Better World Through Soviet Socialism Instead, many looked East to the Soviet ...
Clinton or Bush? Liberal or Conservative? What’s the Difference? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 23, 2015 Last Sunday,longtime Washington Post journalist Dan Balz raised my hopes and then quickly dashed them. In an article in last Sunday’s Post comparing Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, Balz immediately got my attention with the following sentence near the beginning of his article: “Though of different parties and different philosophies, Clinton and Bush share one thing in common: They are unabashed policy wonks.” Sure, Clinton is a Democrat and Bush is a Republican. Everybody knows that. But different philosophies? My immediate reaction was: This article should be interesting. Not surprisingly though, Balz then went on to do nothing more than explain the differences in Clinton’s and Bush’s respective policy wonkiness. By the time I reached the end of the article, I was practically falling asleep. Of course, this type of nonsense has been going on the mainstream press for as long as I can remember. I recall how the mainstream press went agog many years ago when Republican operative Mary Matalin married Democrat ...
The Libertarian Angle – Ron Paul and the Battle for Liberty by Future of Freedom Foundation June 16, 2015 Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger discusses the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and special co-host Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, discuss the importance of a non-interventionist foreign policy and the dismantling of the welfare state. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
The Libertarian Angle – Ron Paul and the Battle for Liberty by Jacob G. Hornberger June 16, 2015 Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger discusses the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and special co-host Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, discuss the importance of a non-interventionist foreign policy and the dismantling of the welfare state. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the ...
Release the CIA’s Still-Secret JFK Records Now by Jacob G. Hornberger June 10, 2015 Today, June 10, marks the anniversary of one of the most important and remarkable speeches in American history — President John F. Kennedy’s speech at American University on June 10, 1963 -- what has become known as the “Peace Speech.” Two excellent books have been written about the speech: To Move the World: JFK’s Quest for Speech ...
Will U.S. Soldiers Soon Be Dying for Communism? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 3, 2015 Do you recall the justification that U.S. officials used for sending more than 58,000 American men to their deaths in the Vietnam War? They said that communism was so bad and such an enormous threat to the United States that it was necessary to stop the North Vietnamese communists before they came to the United States and took over ...
The National Security States of China and the U.S. by Jacob G. Hornberger June 2, 2015 The New York Times recently published a story about China that reveals, indirectly, the revolutionary transformation of the U.S. government that occurred at the end of World War II. The article focuses on the nature of the Chinese communist state as a “national-security state” and points out that that “national security” laws are being used to maintain the ...
Why We Don’t Compromise, Part 2 by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2015 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 In fighting for the free society, people necessarily must determine what it means to be free. Freedom obviously has many different dimensions. Religious liberty entails the freedom to worship God or not, without state compulsion one way ...
The Simplicity of Libertarianism by Laurence M. Vance June 1, 2015 Libertarianism has been defined as an ethical system that seeks to preserve the liberty of individuals and as a political philosophy concerned with the permissible use of force or violence. These are two sides of the same coin. As libertarianism’s greatest theorist, Murray Rothbard, explained, Libertarianism is not and does not pretend to be a complete moral, or aesthetic theory; it ...
Militarism: Our Civic Religion by Michael Swanson June 1, 2015 Militarism, U.S.A by Col. James Donovan; Foreword by Gen. David Shoup (Scribner’s 1970), 265 pages Today the United States is engaged in seemingly winless wars without end in Iraq and Afghanistan and has been engaging in interventions in places such as Libya, which seem to result in nothing but chaos. Libya has descended into civil war and the rise ...
The Ridiculous Cold War against Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger May 14, 2015 Yesterday, Cuban President Raul Castro announced that Cuba is ready to name an ambassador to the United States, signifying that the United States and Cuba continue on the road toward reestablishing formal diplomatic ties. As the governments of the two nations move further toward renewing formal relations, it should become increasingly clear what a horrible fraud the U.S. national-security branch ...
Which American System is Exceptional? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 11, 2015 Throughout the Iraq War, U.S. officials steadfastly maintained, especially after they failed to find those infamous WMDs, that they were continuing to occupy Iraq out of love for the Iraqi people. Since U.S. troops were there anyway, they said, there was no need to apologize for having invaded a country and killed lots of people based on a wrongful ...
