The Future of Freedom Foundation

08/18/2026

In this week’s Trump Watch, Jacob surveys the chaos in U.S. foreibgn policy, specifically in Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea.

08/13/2026

"I hope you will make a generous donation to FFF to assist us in our efforts to put America back on the right trajectory — the trajectory toward economic liberty — which will restore freedom, prosperity, and harmony to our land." -- Jacob G. Hornberger

I’ve recently been watching YouTube documentaries about the enormous surge in American inventions — the Gilded Age — which is my favorite time in history. It was an amazing period — a small beacon of light shining through the darkness of economic oppression that had always characterized mank...

08/06/2026

"When an artificial credit expansion collapses, the burden of the resulting correction falls most heavily and unjustly on the productive classes, who played little or no part in engineering the artificial boom." -- Angelo Monaco

The classic virtue of thrift — once celebrated as a moral cornerstone of self-reliance, discipline, and stewardship — has largely been cast aside by a modern economic system designed to punish it. For centuries, saving was viewed as a quiet duty to one’s family and future, a practice that pair...

08/06/2026

In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard share some fond reminisces about the libertarian movement back in the day.

08/06/2026

With the soaring popularity and electoral success of democratic socialists, the question naturally arises: Will the CIA employ its power of assassination to rectify this problem? -- Jacob G. Hornberger

With the soaring popularity and electoral success of democratic socialists, the question naturally arises: Will the CIA employ its power of assassination to rectify this problem? Let’s keep in mind some important facts: 1. The CIA wields the power to assassinate communists. This omnipotent power w...

08/05/2026

"The first American Revolution created the freest nation the world has seen; a second Progressive Revolution would destroy what is left of it." -- Wendy McElroy

Zohran Mamdani’s Socialist Revolution Rolls On The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution Graham Platner’s Revolution Hits The Road Ro Khanna Making a Play for the Socialist Revolutionaries Far-left Progressives often talk of “revolution.” A political revolution is a fundamental c...

08/05/2026

"The threat to America — and specifically to “national security” — that communist Cuba supposedly posed to America was at the core of the Cold War racket." -- Jacob G. Hornberger

The communist threat from Cuba has returned with a vengeance. According to a Washington Post article entitled “State Dept. Again Deems Cuba a Threat Amid Talk of U.S. Push for Regime Change,” the Trump administration recently issued an official report “alleging that a multi-decade Cuban influe...

07/13/2026

"The most important lessons in life cannot be left to educators who reside outside the home." -- Angelo Monaco

All great change in America begins at the dinner table. Ronald ReaganThe most important lessons in life cannot be left to educators who reside outside the home. [Click to Tweet] Some years back I attended a conference on public education in Ohio. Speaking at the conference was a former cabinet membe...

07/13/2026

'The crown jewel of the welfare state is Social Security, which has produced generations of people hopelessly dependent on the dole and convinced they would die without it." -- Jacob G. Hornberger

With the death of 71-year-old U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham and the hospitalization of 84-year-old U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, not to mention the 80-year-old President Trump, some commentators are questioning whether it’s a good thing that the federal government has so many senior citizens working...