Future of Freedom Foundation
The Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF), founded in 1989 [1] in Denver, Colorado, by Richard M. Ebeling and Jacob G. Hornberger, both with ties to the Foundation for Economic Education, states its libertarian mission is "to advance freedom by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government."[2]
Contents
Staff
- Jacob G. Hornberger, President[1], and former director at the Foundation for Economic Education
- Alicia Cannon, Vice President of Operations
- Bart Frazier, Program Director
- Sheldon Richman, Senior Fellow, and also Editor of The Freeman at the Foundation for Economic Education and former senior editor at the Cato Institute
- James Bovard, Policy Advisor
- Scott McPherson, Policy Advisor
- Ralph Raico, Contributing Editor
Activities
Freedom Daily monthly journal
The website has an archive of articles, which appears some time after publication and biographies of its principal authors: Jacob G. Hornberger, Richard M. Ebeling, Sheldon Richman, James Bovard, Scott McPherson, and Ralph Raico. [3]
Daily Email update
FFF mails a daily newsletter with commentaries, biographies of libertarians, news of its immigration project, public appearances, and news on the drug war, the economy, gun control and the law. Subscriptions are free by email request.[4]
Op-Eds
FFF states that its op-eds have been published "all over the United States and Latin America in some 800 newspapers, which it lists on its site. [5]
Web Audio/Video
The site maintains links to audio commentaries and videos of lectures. [6]
Vienna Coffee Club
FFF’s coffee club meets periodically in the Washington D.C. area, providing a forum for the discussion of free-market ideas.
Books
As of June 8, 2006, FFF has published eight books. [7]
- The Dangers of Socialized Medicine
- The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration
- The Failure of America’s Foreign Wars
- The Tyranny of Gun Control
- Liberty, Security, and the War on Terrorism
- Separating School & State: How to Liberate America’s Families
- Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax
- Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State
Media content, lectures and seminars
FFF's website lists (with some links) its op-eds and newspaper articles, radio and television appearances, and speakers at FFF events and forums.
Reference
Organizational website accessed June 6, 2006. Footnotes link to specific pages therein.
Related SourceWatch
- Anthony Gregory - Policy Advisor
External links
- John V. Walsh, "Shaming the Official Antiwar Movement: Libertarian Conference on War and Liberty", Counterpunch, June 5, 2007.
Contact information
The Future of Freedom Foundation
11350 Random Hills Road
Suite 800
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
Phone: (703) 934-6101
Fax: (703) 352-8678
Email: fff AT fff.org
Newsletter requests: acannon AT fff.org
Website: http://www.fff.org/
