The Libertarian Angle

The Future of Freedom Foundation has been fighting for the free society for 33 years! Listen to FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger tell this history of FFF’s founding.

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What is the relationship between Santa Claus and the government? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling explore the effects of government bureaucrats handing out “free” goodies to constituents.

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Given that it’s Christmas time, let’s contemplate life without a transfer society or an interventionist foreign policy.

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How should the Supreme Court rule in the case of a website designer who does not want to provide services for gay couples getting married? What role did President Franklin Roosevelt play in bringing about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

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What relationship does the original Thanksgiving have to where we are as a nation today? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they discuss private property, the welfare state, and the charitable society.

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Should America adopt former President Donald Trump’s idea of giving the death penalty to drug war violators? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss the immoral assault on individual liberty that is the drug war.

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What effect will the mid-term elections have on the debt ceiling when it comes due after the first of the year? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they discuss the national government’s profligate spending.

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Whatever one might think about Alex Jones, it’s difficult for me to understand how anyone can question the rightfulness of the multimillion damage awards that juries in Connecticut and Texas recently assessed against him. In my opinion, Jones got exactly what he deserved.

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Did former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke deserve the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss the fed, monetary policy, and Austrian economics.

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Direct download: 2022-10-22_LA_Audio.mp3
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How has the government’s response to the COVID pandemic affected liberty of the American people? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger parses the federal government’s policies through a libertarian lens.

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Direct download: 2022-09-29_LA_Audio.mp3
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What effect will Governor Ron DeSantis’ Martha’s Vineyard immigration antics have on resolving America’s decades-long, never-ending immigration crisis? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss.

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Direct download: 2022-09-22_LA_Audio.mp3
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What was the impact of Mikhail Gorbachev on U.S.-Russia relations? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they review the career of this influential Soviet leader.

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What is the effect of the Espionage Act of 1917 on American life today? Join FFF president Jacob Hornberger as he examines this question.

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Why do U.S. officials continue to prosecute and persecute Julian Assange? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they examine that question.

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Why should libertarians be calling for the separation of school and state rather than school vouchers? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they discuss this burning issue.

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What is the only way to bring an end to the deaths of immigrants from dehydration in the backs of tractor trailers? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they parse the consequences of restricting immigration.

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What was the impact of Hans Sennholz on the libertarian movement? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they examine Sennholz’s contributions to liberty.

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What impact did Leonard Read, the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, have on the libertarian movement? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they examine the life of this libertarian luminary.

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What influence did Frank Chodorov have on the libertarian movement? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling talk about this early libertarian scholar.

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What role does Albert Jay Nock's essay "Isaiah's Job" play in the libertarian movement today? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they discuss this seminal work.

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Jacob Hornberger discusses his new book Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story, and how the lessons of Kennedy’s foreign policy apply to U.S. foreign policy today.

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Are there adverse consequences to inflation in addition to rising prices? FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard Ebeling discuss the economic impact of distorting the price system.

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What is the greatest threat to the freedom and well-being of the American people? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger addresses that question in this week's Libertarian Angle.

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Why should the Kennedy assassination matter to every single American? Join FFF president Jacob Hornberger as he addresses that question.

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Why is the U.S. government prohibiting Ukrainian refugees from coming to the United States? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they discuss that question

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Why is the U.S. government prohibiting Ukrainian refugees from coming to the United States? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they discuss that question

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What is the state of freedom in America today? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger, FFF policy advisor James Bovard, and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they explore the extent to which Americans have a free society.

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How many Ukrainian refugees has the United States taken in? FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss U.S. immigration policy.

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What were the contributions of Carl Menger, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, and Friedrich von Wieser? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they examine these three earliest Austrian economists.

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How does the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947 relate to the libertarian movement today? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss this pivotal movement in libertarian history.

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What is wrong with the sanctions that U.S. officials are imposing on Russia in response to the situation in Ukraine? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they examine that question.

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What are the root causes of the crisis in Ukraine? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they examine that question.

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What is the relationship between a 40% increase in the money supply, $30 trillion in federal debt, and rising prices? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they discuss the profligate ways of Congress and the Federal Reserve.

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Category:general -- posted at: 10:56am EDT

What impact does the 19th century free-market economist Frederic Bastiat have on libertarians today? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they discuss the widespread influence of the French political economist Bastiat.

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What were Friedrich Hayek's major contributions to the principles of the free market and the free society? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they address that question in this week's episode of The Libertarian Angle.

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What do we need to do to get America back on the right track with respect to Guantanamo Bay, Ukraine, and other places around the world? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they hash out the war on terrorism and U.S. foreign policy.

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