Jacob G. Hornberger

I am pleased to announce the publication of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s newest book, which is undoubtedly the finest book we have published in our 36-year history. It is entitled Liberty and the History of Economic Ideas: From the Ancients to the Austrian Economists by Richard Ebeling. Richard is my co-host of the Libertarian Angle and a longtime regular contributor to our monthly journal Future of Freedom. Indeed, he helped me put FFF together in 1989 and Continue Reading

Why not just admit the obvious: The welfare-warfare state that 20th-century Americans brought into existence and that 21st-century Americans have kept in existence has failed. Wouldn’t that be a lot better than to waste time, energy, and money coming up with ways to save and reform it? After all, if several generations of Americans haven’t […]

Conservatives, progressives, and even some libertarians are coming up with “solutions” for the federal government’s $40 trillion debt, which is climbing by the minute. The “solutions” range from cutting spending to raising taxes. There is one common denominator in all of these conservative, progressive, and libertarian “solutions”: saving, reforming, and improving America’s welfare-warfare state way of life. But the question naturally arises: Why save and reform immoral, dysfunctional, and destructive systems that have obviously failed to Continue Reading

The U.S. military has just announced that it has carried out two more murders on the high seas near South America. This now brings the military’s high-seas

If we are ever to get our country back on the right track, it is imperative that we never forget that the U.S. national-security state and its foreign policy of interventionism are responsible for the wars in Ukraine and Iran. Let’s start with Iran. It’s obviously tempting to simply blame President Trump for launching his […]

For the life of me, I just cannot understand why anyone would choose serfdom over freedom. After all, we’ve been given only one life to live. Wouldn’t it be better to live that one life in freedom rather than serfdom? The answer seems self-evident to me. It goes without saying that both conservatives and progressives […]

One of the most disastrous consequences of the 9/11 aftermath was the pass that the American people gave to their own government. Their anger was focused entirely on the terrorists rather than on both the terrorists and the government that provoked the attacks. There were two reasons for this phenomenon. The biggest reason is that Americans bought into the rationale that U.S. officials immediately announced as to motive — that is, the reason the terrorists struck on Continue Reading

There is one thing that every libertarian supporter of the decades-long, deadly, and destructive U.S. immigration-control system and the harsh and brutal immigration police state that comes with it should be fully aware of: the nationwide immigration police-state tyranny will become a permanent part of American life. That should especially matter to libertarians for one simple reason: libertarians want to live a life of freedom, but the problem that is an immigration police state is the opposite of Continue Reading

One of the most disastrous consequences of the 9/11 aftermath was the pass that the American people gave to their own government. Their anger was focused entirely on the terrorists rather than on both the terrorists and the government that provoked the attacks. There were two reasons for this phenomenon. The biggest reason is that […]

By now, the evidence overwhelmingly establishes that President Franklin Roosevelt wanted the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to take place. He desperately wanted to intervene in the war against Nazi Germany, but he faced a virtually insurmountable obstacle — the American people, most of whom firmly opposed U.S. entry into a second world war. Of course, this was during a time when presidents were still abiding by the U.S. Constitution’s requirement of a congressional declaration of war before Continue Reading