From the December 2012 issue of the Future of Freedom, from the Future of Freedom Foundation – The Mirage of Welfare State Freedom by James Bovard Government dependency was one of the hottest issues in this year’s presidential race. Unfortunately, neither major-party candidate focused on the perils of “freedoms” that rely on government handouts. Instead, […]
The former presidents of Brazil and Switzerland clobber the drug war in today’s New York Times: We need to acknowledge that not only are human rights abuses in the war on drugs widespread, but that they are systemic. They are an inevitable result of what governments do when they set repressive and unrealistic goals to […]
Talk show legend Brian Wilson has begun his podcast series of interviews with freedom activists as part of his Libertas Project. His first interview is now online, featuring Lew Rockwell, the founder of the Mises Institute. Brian is one of the best interviewers in the biz – he looked at the feet of Jack Paar, […]
EEOC chief legal policy advisor Peggy Mastroianni complained in her letter published by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that my article on EEOC browbeating of businesses was “inflammatory.” So I aspired for a more subdued tone in my reply to the EEOC, which the Journal published today. **** In her March 6 reply to my […]
The American Conservative requested a few hundred words for a web symposium on the election, and here’s my cheerful thoughts on the subject: If I vote, I’ll either select Gary Johnson or write in Ron Paul. This election has almost guaranteed that America will have at least four more years of bad government. Obama’s economic […]
From the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (May 2012) – Federal Labor Law and Mob Tyranny by James Bovard Since Barack Obama took office, the National Labor Relations Board has become a hotbed of controversy. Republicans charge that the NLRB is brazenly favoring unions and thwarting corporations on one bogus pretext after another. Unfortunately, […]
June 28th is the 300th birthday of Jean Jacques Rousseau, a French philosopher whose writings have cursed political life since the mid-1700s. The New Republic has a good essay on Rousseau’s bitter legacy here. I paid my respects to Rousseau in Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen […]
