[The] history of liberty has largely been the history of observance of procedural safeguards.
--Justice Felix Frankfurter, McNabb v. United States [1943]
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
July 20, 2020 The Evil, Immoral, Vicious, and Hypocritical Embargo Against Cuba
The banality of evil that characterizes the U.S. national security state is demonstrated perfectly by the continuation of its deadly economic embargo against Cuba, which has been ongoing for some 60 years. What’s the point of the embargo? After all, the Pentagon’s, CIA’s, and NSA’s official enemy Fidel Castro died years ago. Why continue to intentionally inflict harm on the Cuban ...
Socialism, American Style, Part 1
by Jacob G. Hornberger
In September 1990, the first year of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s existence, FFF published an article I wrote entitled...
FDR's New Deal Fiasco
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
Have you ever thought about the effect that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal has had on American life ...
Tyranny Without a Tyrant
by John W. Whitehead
What exactly is going on? Is this revolution? Is this anarchy? Is this a spectacle engineered to distract us from the machinations...
Save America from Cancel Culture
by Richard M. Ebeling
One of the new fashionable phrases has become “cancel culture,” the idea that ideas, institutions, and people of the present as well of the ...
Defund the Drug War
by Laurence M. Vance
Is it possible to defund the police without causing crime to increase and anarchy to ensue? Certainly. Just defund the drug war. After the tragic ...
