Compassionate conservatism pretends the state does not raise its own money via coercion and harsh threats against taxpayers. Compassionate conservatism presumes that since the government just happens to have all this cash in the treasury coffers, why not do some good deeds with it? Handouts become symbols of generosity rather than acts of redistribution at gunpoint. Compassionate conservatism portrays government as a front of moral greatness, rather than a primary source of corruption, manipulation, and degradation
July 21, 2020 Rename the Roosevelt Room to the Gustav Schröder Room
Last month the University of Southern California announced the removal of the name of former USC president Rufus von KleinSmid from a building on campus. Von KleinSmid served as president of the university from 1921 to 1947. Von KleinSmid’s offense? He was a supporter of the eugenics movement, and he also refused to admit Japanese American students to USC after World ...
The REAL ID Act Ravages Our Liberty
by James Bovard
National ID cards have been atop the command-and-control political wish list for decades. In the 1990s, Republican Congresses shot down efforts to move toward ...
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 ...
