The armed defense of the country is a primary and substantial task of the state. The mental defense of the country falls primarily not on the state but on the person, the citizen. No government and no battalions are able to protect right and freedom, where the citizen himself is not capable of stepping to the front door and seeing what is outside.
— Philipp Etter, Geistige Landesverteidigung [1937] quoted in Target Switzerland
HORNBERGER’S BLOG
December 5, 2022
Biden’s Newfound Love of the Constitution
President Biden and other leftwing statists are up in arms over a comment made by former President Trump calling for “the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution” in order to declare him the winner of the 2020 presidential election, which he claims was stolen from him. As they condemn Trump for his comment, Biden and his …
Separate Money and the State
by Jacob G. Hornberger
FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger gave the final talk in our online conference “End Inflation and End …
Why Should Americans Have to Vote to Legalize Marijuana?
by Laurence M. Vance
In addition to the thousands of candidates running for federal, state, and local offices in the recent midterm election, voters in 37 states also …
Lessons for America from the Chinese Protests
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
What lessons can America learn from the protests taking place in China against the regime’s anti-COVID measures? …
We Don’t Need No Regulation (or Statist Education)
by Robert E. Wright
Like the long line of school children who mindlessly marched into Pink Floyd’s meat grinder in The Wall, an estimated one million investors recently …
The Historical Foundation of Civil Liberties, Part 1
by Tom G. Palmer
When we think about civil liberties, it’s very common in contemporary discourse to distinguish civil liberties from economic liberties, even…