Dismantle the Cuban Embargo
Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently visited Vietnam with the aim of establishing closer relations with that country’s regime. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, “U.S. officials …
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Did the CIA and the Pentagon Put the Quietus on Tucker Carlson?
One hypothesis for why Fox News fired popular television commentator Tucker Carlson is because he had been badmouthing company officials. But are top executives for a major U.S. corporation so …
Don’t Let the Government Criminalize Free Speech
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”—George Washington What the police state wants is a silent, compliant, …
No Compassion on U.S. Aid to Ukraine
Last week I wrote an article entitled “How Can Force Entail Compassion?” which focused on America’s welfare-state programs. I pointed out that, contrary to popular opinion, such programs do not …
Our Post-9/11 Tyranny and Oppression
One of the positive aspects of my work here at The Future of Freedom Foundation has always been reading the correspondence I receive in response to the articles we publish. …
Flying Pre-9/11
This past weekend, I was reminded of how pleasant it was to fly prior to 9/11. I was flying from Memphis, Tennessee, to Hot Springs, Arkansas, on a commuter airline …
Philip Wicksteed on the Common Sense of Choice and the Market Process
The British economist Philip H. Wicksteed began his most important work, The Common Sense of Political Economy (1910), with a motto taken from the famous German poet Johann Wolfgang von …
Those Scary and Dangerous Russkies
It was always inevitable that the Pentagon’s and the CIA’s “war on terrorism” would begin fizzling out, especially as the number of foreigners they were killing significantly diminished. When U.S. …
The Roots of American Dysfunctionality, Part 2
Part 1 | Part 2 The United States once had the finest health-care system in history. When I was growing up in the 1950s — before Medicare and Medicaid came …
How Can Force Entail Compassion?
One of the things I have long found fascinating about America’s welfare-state way of life is how so many people say that it reflects that Americans are a compassionate people. …