Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference … The Thought Police would get him just the same … the arrests invariably happened at night...
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 When the second German-language edition of Ludwig von Mises’s The Theory of Money and Credit appeared 100 years ago, in 1924, it was less than a year since the grea...
The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. This is what comes of those $1.2 trillion spending bills : someone�...
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/tyranny-by-the-numbers/
Libertarians and conservatives share a common enemy. Whether it is described as liberalism, progressivism, collectivism, or socialism; whether its adherents term themselves liberals, progressives...
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-case-for-libertarian-internationalism/
Bernie Sanders, the self-described socialist, former Democratic presidential candidate, and current independent senator from Vermont, is at it again. For years, he has supported the worst healt...
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/how-long-should-the-workweek-be/
The government wants to play god. It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection. Abortion may still be front and center in the power struggle betwee...
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-government-wants-to-play-god/
There are two major obstacles to achieving a genuinely free society in our lifetime: one, a lack of understanding of the genuine principles of freedom, and two, a lack of faith in freedom. The ...
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/understanding-freedom-and-faith-in-freedom/
In a Pew Foundation opinion survey report in September of 2022, it was found that only 46 percent of Democrats had a “positive” view of capitalism, down from 55 percent in 2019. On the other ...
I never even heard of nitazenes until last month. They are a type of synthetic opioids called isotonitazenes, or ISOs, that have been detected in illegal street drugs. According to the Drug Enfor...
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/legalize-nitazenes/
“In these days of worldwide confusion, there is a dire need for men and women who will courageously do battle for truth .”— Martin Luther King Jr. When exposing a crime is treated as comm...
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/when-dissidents-become-enemies-of-the-state-2/
“If the state could use laws not for their intended purposes but to silence those who voice unpopular ideas, little would be left of our First Amendment liberties, and little would separate us...
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-language-of-force/
Last December, one of the most intrusive provisions in the federal statute book was set to expire. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizes the National Security...
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-never-ending-federal-surveillance-crime-spree/
“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look...
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/tyranny-is-rising-as-freedom-falls/
Charlotte Cowles is a financial advice columnist for The Cut , “a New York Magazine site dedicated to women’s lives and interests, including politics, work, money, relationships, style, and p...
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-social-security-and-medicare-scams/
“Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.”—Gene Sharp, political science professor The U.S. Supreme Court was right to keep Pres...
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-great-election-fraud/
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 One hundred years ago, in 1924, the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises issued a revised German-language edition of his 1912 book Theorie des Geldes und der Unlaufsmi...
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes...
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In his essay “Youthful Rebellion as Legitimate Resistance Against the Third Reich,” history professor John Charles Marsland II described the acceleration: By 19...
The one substance that government at all levels in the United States has sought to regulate and tax like no other is alcohol. The latest nanny-state infringement on liberty, property, and comme...
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/end-the-alcohol-nanny-state/
“The remedy is worse than the disease.”—Francis Bacon The government never cedes power willingly. Neither should we. If the COVID-19 debacle taught us one thing it is that, as Justice...
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/covid-19-tested-our-commitment-to-freedom/