One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
–Carl Sagan
THE NATIONAL-SECURITY STATE AND
THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
The national-security establishment’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy was one of the pivotal events in our lifetime, and it continues to have an adverse impact on American life today. This conference will be oriented toward people who are not well-versed in the assassination and who wish to gain a deeper understanding of it.
April 28, 2021 Reform versus Freedom
When new libertarians join the libertarian movement, they are inevitably hit with a fork in the road, one that all of us libertarians have confronted after discovering libertarianism. That fork is this: Should I become a libertarian reformer or should I become an advocate of liberty? No matter how much the reform crowd might protest, reform is not freedom. That’s because reform ...
Taking the Good with the Bad by Laurence M. Vance
Marijuana freedom is a good thing. The taxation of marijuana is a bad thing. Unfortunately, owing to the greed of spendthrift politicians, it looks ...
JFK's Head Wounds
by David Mantik
This talk by Dr. David Mantik is part of the online conference The National-Security State and ...
Time to Lift the Embargo on Cuba
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
Now that Raul Castro has resigned as president of Cuba, does this mean that the U.S. government's ...
On the Wrong Track
by Lance Lamberton
If ever there was an example of how government intervention in the marketplace creates unintended consequences and makes a situation it was intended to solve infinitely worse ...
