Capitalism, Freedom, and Progress
Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge (Penguin Press, 2018); 496 pages. Almost everyone knows Alan Greenspan as the long-serving chairman …
Future of Freedom Foundation
The FDR Plan to Restore America
Collin O’Mara, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation and a former participant in the AmericaCorps VISTA program, has a plan to restore America. It’s set forth in an …
Early Americans Would Have Rejected the U.S. Government
Even though most Americans are obviously unhappy with the federal government, many of them don’t question the structure of the government itself. Their ire is directed toward officials, not the …
The Great College-Hunger Hoax
“Nearly half our college students are going hungry,” presidential candidate Bernie Sanders proclaimed in late November. Sanders’s tweet went viral, spurring more than 20,000 re-tweets and “likes.” Starving college students …
My Discovery of Freedom
What surprised me most about discovering libertarianism is the fact that I wasn’t living in a free society, as I had been taught all my life. I was 28 years …
The Coronavirus and the Attack on Liberty and Privacy
The coronavirus crisis has, once more, reminded us all of how much we live in an interdependent world in which what happens in one part of the globe has serious …
Three Reminders from The Bill of Rights
As a condition for accepting the Constitution, the American people demanded the enactment of the Bill of Rights immediately after ratification of the Constitution. They had been assured that the …
State-sanctioned Family Abuse in England
Note: This article was written by Richard House and Jonathan Swann. The State will tell us how to teach and what results to aim for, and what the State prescribes …
The Profitability of Amtrak Is Not the Issue
In addition to the federal government’s departments, such as Energy, Interior, and Education; and independent agencies, such as the CIA, FCC, and EPA; there exist government quasi-corporations, such as the …
Businesses, Employees, and the Coronavirus Crisis
Throughout the long sordid history of socialism, socialists have decried the supposed conflict of interest between employers and employees. Employers exist just to exploit the workers, socialists claim. If it …