The 1929 Emergency Revolutionized America
The stock market crash in 1929 provides an excellent example of how an emergency or crisis can be used to revolutionize a society permanently and destroy liberty and well-being in …
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Unleashing the Dogs of War
Presidents of War by Michael Beschloss (New York: Crown, 2018); 752 pages. Even with power in the hands of a political philosopher and statesman who understood the rabid nature of …
Libertarianism Is the Only Solution for Healthcare and the Coronavirus
For 30 years here at FFF, we have been saying that there is one — and only one — solution to America’s decades-long, ongoing, never-ending healthcare crisis. That solution is: …
How the Police State Will Deal with a Coronavirus Outbreak
“Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some …
To Kill Markets Is the Worst Possible Plan
Momentous events usually leave strong memories on those who have lived through them, and those memories often become passed on to later generations in the form of historical interpretations of …
New York Times Obtuseness on China
In an editorial entitled “China’s Ill-Timed Attack on the Free Press,” the New York Times berates the Chinese government for expelling journalists who work for the Times, the Wall Street …
Finding Humor within the Coronavirus Crisis
Even within the midst of the coronavirus crisis, it is possible to find humor, thanks to statists. A good example is an article entitled “The Era of Small Government is …
The Money-Printing Gods Have Failed
Hooray! Finally even the robo-machines and day traders are puking, not BTFDing. Today’s 3,000 Dow Point Dump says even they have had enough of the craven dolts who occupy the …
Libertarianism Can’t Make Socialism Work
One of the fascinating phenomena of advancing libertarianism here at The Future of Freedom Foundation for the past 30 years has been seeing how frustrated statists become with the failure …
Liberty versus “Security” from the Coronavirus
Crises and emergencies are the time-honored way that people end up losing their liberty at the hands of their own governments. That’s because people become so afraid that they are …