I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy ... censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything -- you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
– Robert A. Heinlein
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
July 7, 2025Smoking-Gun Circumstantial Evidence in the JFK Assassination
Those who have claimed that there is no smoking-gun evidence in the CIA’s long-secret records relating to the JFK assassination can no longer make that claim. That’s because the CIA was just forced to release its records relating to CIA official George Joannides. For more than 60 years, the CIA, with the help of deferential U.S. federal courts, had succeeded in keeping its ...
Libertarian Angle: The Declaration of Independence by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the real significance of the Declaration of Independence. Go ...
The Good Intentions License for Tyranny by James Bovard
“He who saves his country violates no law,” tweeted President Trump in February. He was echoing a line often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte. His ...
Is Libertarian Cancel Culture Possible...And Desirable? by Wendy McElroy
"Cancel Culture" is the mass withdrawal of support from an organization, product or person as a way to express disapproval of it or to punish and...
