Freedom Digest: MONDAY, MAY 2, 2022

If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

– George Washington, Address to officers of the Army [March 15, 1783]

May 2, 2022
Is It “Disloyal” to “Side with Russia”?
Last week, I received an email from a conservative-oriented libertarian who suggested to me that it is disloyal to “side with Russia” because Ukraine was “just sitting there” when it was invaded by Russia. Are you kidding me? “Just sitting there”? As in just innocently minding its own business? I don’t think so.  Sure, most everyone would concede that Russia had no …

FREE SPEECH Elon Musk, Twitter, and Freedom of Speech by Laurence M. Vance The Future of Freedom Foundation CRIMINAL JUSTICE Why Do We Still Honor J. Edgar Hoover’s Racist, Homophobic Legacy? by Nicholas Goldberg Los Angeles Times FOREIGN POLICY The Horrible Dangers of Pushing a US Proxy War in Ukraine by Anatol Lieven Responsible Statecraft Ukraine War Powers by Thomas Massie Committee for the Republic What if Russia Wins Its War Against Ukraine by Doug Bandow Antiwar.com THE FREE SOCIETY TGIF: What Really Protects Liberty? by Sheldon Richman Free Association U.S. MILITARY The Ukraine War Is Ballooning America’s Military Industrial Complex by Andrew J. Bacevich New Republic ECONOMICS Inflation and Economic Bubbles by Mike Swanson with Scott Horton The Scott Horton Show The Threat to Liberty is Coming from Inside the House by Barry Brownstein AIER JFK Biden Pardons Abraham Bolden after Multiple Crusader Articles by Erick Johnson Chicago Crusader

Political Paternalism, Not Free Markets, Cause Economic Shocks by Richard M. Ebeling One of the political paternalist tricks is to insist that any economic policy failure is more “proof” of the bankruptcy of the market economy. … John Maynard Keynes and Keynesian Economics by Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling Who was John Maynard Keynes and how did he come to play such an important role in the … We’re Only as Free as the Government Allows by John W. Whitehead We’re in a national state of denial. For years now, the government has been playing a cat-and-mouse game with the American people,… There Is No Federal Solution by Laurence M. Vance The twentieth century in the United States can certainly be characterized by the massive increase in federal solutions to right every wrong, correct every … Ludwig von Mises’s Idea on Self-Determination Might Have Saved Ukraine by Richard M. Ebeling With every passing day, the Russo-Ukrainian war becomes more of a huge human tragedy. The Ukrainian government admits that at least