In spite of popular myths about capitalism oppressing the poor, the poor are worse off in those things provided by government, such as schooling, police protection, and justice. There are more good cars in the ghettos than good schools.
February 8, 2022 Setting Up Crises in Afghanistan and Ukraine
As I have watched how the U.S. national-security establishment has set up its latest crisis, this one in Ukraine, I couldn’t help but be reminded of how it set up a similar crisis in Afghanistan in 1979. Back then, the goal of U.S. national-security state officials was to goad the Soviet Union into invading Afghanistan. U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski put it ...
9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq, Part 1 by Jacob G. Hornberger
Declaring that “veteran suicide is one of the greatest crises of our time,” Boston’s NPR news station, WBUR, reported that “since Sept. 11, 2001, ...
The Impact of Frédéric Bastiat on Libertarians Today by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
What impact does the 19th century free-market economist Frederic Bastiat have on libertarians today? Join FFF president ...
Freedom Is a Stabilizing Influence
by Scott McPherson
The nativists at Breitbart are sounding the alarm. “Reports: U.S. Society Grows More Divided Amid Diversity” was a headline at Breitbart on January 28. ...
Is Elon Musk Paying His Fair Share?
by Laurence M. Vance
According to Forbes magazine, “The number of billionaires on Forbes’ 35th annual list of the world’s wealthiest exploded to an unprecedented ...
