The Department of Education Is Alive and Well by Laurence M. Vance May 20, 2026 The Department of Education (ED) is moving out of its headquarters at the Lyndon B. Johnson Building in Washington, D.C., this ...
Will Affordability Bankrupt President Trump? by James Bovard May 18, 2026 In early 2022, I predicted in the New York Post that inflation would politically bankrupt President Joe Biden. Will the affordability issue similarly bankrupt ...
Should There Be a Cap on Social Security Benefits? by Laurence M. Vance May 12, 2026 Spending on Social Security is the largest expenditure of the federal government — more than health care, welfare, and even more than defense. It ...
Friedrich A. Hayek on “The Meaning of Competition,” 80 Years On by Richard M. Ebeling May 11, 2026 Eighty years ago, on May 20, 1946, Austrian economist Friedrich A. Hayek delivered at Princeton University what, in my opinion, was one of his ...
U.S. Statism in Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger May 8, 2026 The recent U.S.-manufactured crisis in Venezuela consisted of a combination of several of the deadly, destructive, immoral, and tyrannical aspects of America’s modern-day governmental ...
The Shocking Nature of Libertarianism by Laurence M. Vance May 6, 2026 President Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States at noon on Monday, January 20, 2025, which was actually ...
The Omnipotent Power to Kill by Jacob G. Hornberger May 21, 2026 The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law. Like all the other amendments to the Constitution, the Fifth Amendment operates as an express higher-law restriction that the people of the United States have placed on federal officials. The idea is that federal officials are expected to obey our higher law ...
Republicans and Democrats Are Not the Root Cause of Big Spending and Big Debt by Jacob G. Hornberger May 19, 2026 During the administrations of Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden, how many times did we hear about how Republicans were the answer to those big-spending Democrats who were bankrupting our country with their out-of-control federal spending and debt? Almost continuously! If only American voters would put those fiscally responsible Republicans in charge of both houses ...
There Is No Freedom in an Assassination Nation by Jacob G. Hornberger May 18, 2026 To date, President Trump and the U.S. national-security branch of the federal government (i.e., the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA) have assassinated around 200 people in small boats on the high seas near South America. Such assassinations are quickly becoming a normalized part of American life, especially within the mainstream press. There is no question but that the American people, as of ...
The U.S. Immigration-Control Death Machine by Jacob G. Hornberger May 15, 2026 The U.S. immigration-control death machine has struck again. A few days ago, six bodies were found inside a railroad container car in my hometown of Laredo, Texas. There was no way to open the door to the container car from inside. The victims died of dehydration and extreme heat. At least one of them was from Mexico and authorities are working ...
Libertarian Angle: The Mundane Politics of Democrats and Republicans May 21, 2026 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard analyze the state of American politics today in the ...
Trump Watch: The Deadly U.S. Obsession with Cuba May 19, 2026 In this week's Trump Watch, Jacob discusses the U.S. national-security establishment's decades-long, ongoing, never-ending, perpetual obsession with ...
The Evil Within, Part 9: Public Schooling and Conscription May 15, 2026 In this week's episode of The Evil Within, Jacob discusses the evil of public (i.e., government) schooling ...
Libertarian Angle: The Folly of Trump’s Trade Summit in China May 14, 2026 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the trade summit in China between President Trump ...
