Government power, a vast, organized, and living body, naturally tends to grow. It feels cramped within its supervisory mission. Now, its growth is hardly possible without a succession of encroachments upon the field of individual rights.
December 22, 2021 Max Boot's Rant Against Oliver Stone
Max Boot, a conservative who has long favored regime-change operations on the part of the U.S. national-security establishment, is going after Hollywood producer and director Oliver Stone. His beef with Stone? He’s upset because Stone has long maintained that the U.S. national-security establishment employed one of its patented regime-change operations here at home, against President John F. Kennedy. The title of Boot’s ...
Freedom Is Not Free
by Leonard Read
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. —Abraham Lincoln Only a few — the pure, the apt and the true — never ...
The Christmas Baby Born in a Police State
by John W. Whitehead
The Christmas story of a baby born in a manger is a familiar one. The Roman Empire, a police state in its own right, had...
A Republic, Not a Democracy by Scott McPherson
Late-night political hack and former comedian Stephen Colbert doesn't usually warrant any notice, but he stumbled onto an important truth recently. Lamenting the possibility ...
Democracy versus Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
What is the import of President Biden's democracy summit? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel ...
Carl Menger's Free Market Advice to an Austrian Crown Prince
by Richard M. Ebeling
I will never forget a formal dinner I attended shortly after the 9/11 attacks. It was sponsored by a conservative-oriented libertarian foundation. There were ...
