Tue, 6 August 2019
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard Ebeling discuss the recent shootings in El Paso and Dayton. |
Wed, 31 July 2019
How high can the debt ceiling go? How much can Congress spend? Both seem limitless. FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss. |
Tue, 16 July 2019
Government and schooling--what could go wrong? FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard Ebeling discuss the busing programs of the 1960s. |
Wed, 10 July 2019
Socialism is growing in popularity with the young. One socialist society has failed after the other, and yet socialism retains respect. Why? FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard Ebeling discuss. |
Wed, 3 July 2019
What did the American Revolution signify? What tenets of a free society are enshrined in The Declaration of Independence? FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard Ebeling discuss. |
Wed, 12 June 2019
Are barriers to both immigration and trade the hallmarks of a free society? Do the make the citizens of The United States better off? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss. |
Wed, 5 June 2019
Does the first amendment protect journalists or people? Is the Espionage Act suitable for a free society? FFF president Jacob G. Horngberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling answer these questions and more. |
Thu, 9 May 2019
Could World War II have been avoided? How did foreign policy decisions create the conditions that set it in motion? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss. |
Tue, 30 April 2019
America should never have gotten involved in World War I, and powers assumed by the government during that war haunt is till this day. FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard Ebeling discuss. |
Tue, 23 April 2019
Sanctions and embargoes do more to hurt the citizens in a country than the government that these policies are trying to punish. Should a libertarian support such policies? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss. |
Fri, 19 April 2019
Taxation is theft, there is no getting around it. But the income tax in particular has had a particularly galling effect onf the liberty of all Americans. FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss. |
Tue, 9 April 2019
Is democracy the goal of politics? Are freedom and democracy one and the same? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss. |
Sat, 6 April 2019
Is there a way to end poverty? Actually, much poverty has already been eliminated. FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling tell you how. |
Tue, 19 March 2019
The national debt keeps going up and the federal budget keeps running in the red. Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. |
Tue, 12 March 2019
Free trade is the most efficient system of resource distribution yet discovered, but more importantly, it is moral and a key feature of the free society. FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel economics professor Richard Ebeling discuss. |
Tue, 5 March 2019
Would the free market allocate money as efficiently as other goods? Of course! FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel economics professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss. |
Wed, 27 February 2019
Possession of firearms does not guarantee freedom, but it certainly doesn't hurt. The leaders of Venezuela surely understand this. FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard Ebeling discuss. |
Tue, 19 February 2019
With the New Green Deal a hot topic, we thought it would be time again to take stock again of the the original New Deal meant for this country. FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. |
Wed, 13 February 2019
With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushing a New Green Deal, the time might be ripe to examine the track history of socialist societies. Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. |
Thu, 24 January 2019
With the ascent of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, socialism is experiencing a resurgence in the United States. What does this mean for libertarianism and what does it mean for a free society? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss. |
Thu, 17 January 2019
What happens when you have a raging drug war and an escalating trade war? Declining freedom for everyone. FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss. |
Thu, 10 January 2019
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling, professor at The Citadel, discuss the ongoing political tussle over the border wall and the ensuing government shutdown. |
Wed, 2 January 2019
President Donald Trump has called for the withdrawal of the U.S. military from Syria. While libertarians should laud such a move, what is really going on here? Can we really expect the U.S. military to completely withdraw from an area of the Middle East that it has been trying to influence for so long? FFF president Jacob Hornberger and economics Richard Ebeling discuss. |
Tue, 18 December 2018
What does shutting down the government mean, if anything? Not much. Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. |
Wed, 28 November 2018
Richard Ebeling is the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel. He became a libertarian while still in high school and has been involved in the libertarian movement for many decades. Who did he look up to? What books have influenced him the most? Richard and FFF president Jacob Hornberger discuss. |
Tue, 20 November 2018
Here is a lesson on Thanksgiving from Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling. |
Tue, 23 October 2018
As a large group of refugees heads north through Mexico, it is time to ask what a proper libertarian stance on immigration should be. FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. |
Tue, 16 October 2018
What does the bankruptcy of Sears, Roebuck, and Company say about the free market? What does the purported assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi say about a supposed free society? Richard and FFF president Jacob Hornberger discuss |
Wed, 10 October 2018
Richard Ebeling is the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel. He became a libertarian while still in high school and has been involved in the libertarian movement for many decades. Who did he look up to? What books have influenced him the most? Richard and FFF president Jacob Hornberger discuss. |
Wed, 3 October 2018
Richard Ebeling is the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel. He became a libertarian while still in high school and has been involved in the libertarian movement for many decades. Who did he look up to? What books have influenced him the most? Richard and FFF president Jacob Hornberger discuss. |
Wed, 26 September 2018
Richard Ebeling is the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel. He became a libertarian while still in high school and has been involved in the libertarian movement for many decades. Who did he look up to? What books have influenced him the most? |
Tue, 18 September 2018
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling are pleased to have as a guest Cato Institute senior fellow Ted Galen Carpenter to discuss foreign policy.
Direct download: 2018-09-18_LA_Audio_Intervention_Carpenter.mp3
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Wed, 12 September 2018
What is The Free State Project (https://www.fsp.org/Join/)? Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling welcome FSP founder Jason Sorens. |
Wed, 29 August 2018
Immigration controls are like any other type of government control--a top-down command structure doomed to failure and resource mismanagement. And more importantly, immigration controls violate the libertarian non-agression principle. Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss.
Direct download: 2018-08-29_LA_Immigration_Chaos_AUDIO.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:40pm EDT |
Wed, 29 August 2018
Social Security is theft. There is no trust fund. You have no rights to the money funding it. It is simply a transfer mechanism to get money from the young to the old. FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss.
Direct download: 2018-08-22_Abolish_Social_Security_AUDIO.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:37pm EDT |
Wed, 29 August 2018
Insider trading is a felony. Should it be? Is insider trading wrong at all? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. |
Tue, 7 August 2018
What would a free market in education look like? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss.
Direct download: 2018-08-07_LA_College_Socialism_Audio.mp3
Category:libertarianism -- posted at: 12:57pm EDT |
Tue, 31 July 2018
What is a fiat currency and how does the state benefit from controlling the money supply? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. |
Tue, 17 July 2018
One of the basic functions of a government is the defense of property. How does eminent domain fit within this role? Is there any place in a free society for eminent domain? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss. |
Tue, 17 July 2018
What is democratic socialism and what is its import for a free society? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss. |
Thu, 28 June 2018
If the free movement of goods is beneficent and desired, does that not also hold true for people? And more importantly, don't people have the right of free movement? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss. |
Tue, 19 June 2018
FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss how government licensing violates the non-aggression principle and distorts the market. |
Tue, 5 June 2018
If you own yourself, shouldn't you be free to ingest what you wish? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the immorality of the drug war. |
Wed, 30 May 2018
Here is another solution for the NFL’s woes concerning kneeling players during the Star-Spangled Banner — Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling propose eliminating it. |
Tue, 8 May 2018
Some are celebrating the the 200th birthday of Karl Marx, author of Das Kapital. Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling tell you why it is no reason to celebrate. |
Wed, 2 May 2018
After our sold-out conference in Charleston, Jacob and Richard address our current foreign policy that violates libertarian principles and creates more enemies than it defeats. |
Tue, 24 April 2018
What works better–socialism or the free market? Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling apply libertarian principles to Social Security.
Direct download: 2018-04-24_LA_Socialism_and_Social_Security.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:24pm EDT |
Mon, 16 April 2018
Join Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling as they explore the benefits of free trade and the folly of tariffs and protectionism. |
Tue, 13 March 2018
Special guest Doug Bandow, senior fellow a The Cato Institute, talks foreign intervention with Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling.
Direct download: 2018-03-13_Reject_Foreign_Interventionsim.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:45am EDT |
Wed, 7 March 2018
Do tariffs benefit a society, or is free trade the great engine of productivity and liberty? Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss President Trump's proposal for tariffs on steel and aluminum.
Direct download: 2018-03-07_Trump_Tariff_Folly.mp3
Category:libertarianism -- posted at: 10:37am EDT |
Wed, 14 February 2018
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talking discuss the growing tensions on the Korean peninsula. |
Tue, 6 February 2018
What is the difference between a democratic system and a capitalist system? FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling hash it out. |
Tue, 30 January 2018
How does free trade benefit mankind? How does it affect liberty? FFF president Jacob Hornberger, Richard Ebeling, and special guest and George Mason University economist Donald J. Boudreaux hash it out. |
Tue, 16 January 2018
What is DACA? What is the libertarian angle on immigration? FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss President Trump's recent policy moves concerning illegal immigrants. |
Wed, 10 January 2018
Is government really providing liberty? Do politicians protect our freedom? FFF president Jacob Hornberger, Richard Ebeling, and special guest FFF policy adviser James Bovard discuss freedom frauds. |
Wed, 20 December 2017
What happens when the national government starts handing out presents to everyone? FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss socialism in America. |
Mon, 11 December 2017
How did you become a libertarian? Does it all being with Ayn Rand? FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss how they became libertarians. |
Tue, 5 December 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss recent tax legislation.
Direct download: 2017-12-05_Trumps_Tax_Bill_and_American_Serfdom.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:41am EDT |
Wed, 29 November 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about Thanksgiving and the free market.
Direct download: 2017-11-28_Thanksgiving_and_the_Free_Market.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:44pm EDT |
Tue, 10 October 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss how monopolies are government-created entities and that freeing the market is the only way to liberty and prosperity. |
Tue, 3 October 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the benefits of the free market. |
Tue, 19 September 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling join the conversation on Vietnam following the release of the Ken Burns documentary. |
Tue, 12 September 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling the presidency and immigration policy. |
Thu, 7 September 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about the economics of disaster recovery.
Direct download: 2017-09-06_In_Praise_of_Price_Gouging.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:51am EDT |
Wed, 23 August 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the recent controversy over civil war statues and the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. |
Tue, 15 August 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discussing rising tensions with North Korea. |
Tue, 15 August 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling answer questions from viewers on open borders. |
Wed, 2 August 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss paternalism and how it fosters a fear of individual liberty. |
Wed, 19 July 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about a basic tenet of libertarianism.
Direct download: 2017-07-25_LA_Libertarianism_and_Healthcare.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:38am EDT |
Wed, 19 July 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the nature of socialism.
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Wed, 19 July 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Jefferson Morley talk FFF’s recent conference, “The National Security State & JFK.” |
Wed, 14 June 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about the founder of The Foundation for Economic Education and a hero of modern libertarianism, Milton Friedman. |
Wed, 7 June 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about one hero of modern libertarianism, Milton Friedman. |
Wed, 7 June 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about the the public displays associated with Memorial Day. |
Wed, 7 June 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about the great economists and libertarians Frederic Bastiat and Henry Hazlitt. |
Tue, 16 May 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about the great economist and libertarian Ludwig von Mises.
Direct download: 2017-05-16_Giants_of_Libertarianism_-_Ludwig_von_Mises.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:12pm EDT |
Tue, 16 May 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss how they became exposed the the libertarian movement.
Direct download: 2017-05-08_How_We_Became_Libertarians.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:10pm EDT |
Wed, 3 May 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the morality of taxation. |
Tue, 25 April 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the possibility of federal government shutdown.
Direct download: 2017-04-25_LA_Shut_Down_the_Government.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:04pm EDT |
Wed, 12 April 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss different methods for advancing towards a free society. |
Thu, 6 April 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the benefits of free trade. |
Tue, 28 March 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss how spontaneous order organizes society in an efficient way while at the same time preserving liberty.
Direct download: 2017-03-28_FA_Hayek_and_Spontaneous_Order.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:01pm EDT |
Tue, 28 March 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss President Trump's budget proposal. |
Tue, 28 March 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss U.S. fiscal policy. |
Tue, 7 March 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss gun rights. |
Tue, 21 February 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling, along with special guest Donald J. Boudreaux, discuss the economics of the minimum wage and free trade.
Direct download: 2017-02-21_LA_Minimum_Wage_and_Free_Trade.mp3
Category:libertarianism -- posted at: 1:03pm EDT |
Thu, 16 February 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about what it means to be free, what it means to live in a free society. |
Thu, 16 February 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about the differences between voluntary charity and coerced "charity." |
Tue, 31 January 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about Donald Trump's policy on immigration.
Direct download: 2017-01-31_Trumps_Immigration_Dictatorship.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:46am EDT |
Wed, 18 January 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about Donald Trump's statements on immigration. |
Wed, 18 January 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about the executive powers that Obama is bequeathing to Trump. |
Wed, 4 January 2017
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the history and ramifications of a noninterventionist foreign policy. |
Wed, 14 December 2016
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about the choices that president-elect Donald Trump has been making for his cabinet. |
Wed, 7 December 2016
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about the choices that president-elect Donald Trump has been making for his cabinet. |
Mon, 5 December 2016
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the impact of Fidel Castro’s death on the future of Cuba and Cuban-American relations. |
Mon, 28 November 2016
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about freedom and its relationship to democracy.
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Mon, 28 November 2016
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about the trade policy of president-elect Donald Trump. |
Thu, 10 November 2016
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about the surprising results of the recent U.S. presidential election. |
Thu, 3 November 2016
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the moral and practical failings of socialism.
Direct download: 2016-11-03_LA_Principles_of_Socialism.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:21pm EDT |
Wed, 26 October 2016
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the recent actions of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte in denouncing the role of the U.S. in Philippines' history and severing ties with the U.S. military. |