A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behaviour, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If at the end of a war story you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie.
February 18, 2020 Has the Constitution Failed?
Given the massive welfare-warfare state system under which Americans live, the natural assumption is that the Constitution failed in its mission to constrain the powers of the federal government. Actually, though, that isn’t the case. How, then, can these two points be reconciled? How can the Constitution be said to be have succeeded in its mission given that, at the same time, we now live under ...
Defending the Foundations of Freedom for 30 Years
by Richard M. Ebeling
This January 2020 marks the 30th anniversary of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s monthly publication, Future of Freedom, which at its beginning was called ...
A Case for Not Giving Up on the American Dream
by John W. Whitehead
Listen: we don’t have to agree about everything. We don’t even have to agree about most things. We don’t have to love each other. We don’t even have to like each other. ...
Cobden, Bright, and Bastiat
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
Free trade is one of the burning issues of our time, but did you know that in ...
The New Totalitarians
by Richard M. Ebeling
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The defeat of Nazism in Europe was seen as not ...
