Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Aug 26,2013

Are America’s Best Days Yet to Come?

Purchase tickets here: https://america3point0.eventbrite.com It’s 2013 and we live in a world of ObamaCare, NSA surveillance of American citizens, soda bans, transfat bans, plastic grocery bag bans, and on and...

By Joseph Hammond • Aug 23,2013

Jackie Robinson: The Artful Dodger As Classical Liberal

Perhaps it really was just a harmless gesture of frustration, but a San Francisco Giants fan provoked a flurry of disdain by tossing a banana at Orioles star Adam Jones...

By Kathryn Shelton • Aug 23,2013

Why Does Economic Freedom Matter?

On August 13, AF-Columbus hosted Professor Robert Lawson, co-author of the widely-cited Economic Freedom of the World index and the Jerome M. Fullinwider Endowed Centennial Chair in Economic Freedom at...

By Marc Hyden • Aug 22,2013

Rethinking The Death Penalty Debate

My parents’ generation is accustomed to thinking of America’s ongoing death penalty debate in terms of tough on crime conservative republicans pitted against socially progressive liberal democrats, but those categories...

By Kathryn Shelton • Aug 22,2013

MTV’s Kennedy Discusses Libertarianism with AF Chicago!

AFF-Chicago, along with allies and co-hosts Illinois Policy Institute and Chicago Young Republicans, packed Hub 51 for the sold out reception with Reason contributor and Stossel correspondent Kennedy. Promoting her...

By AF Editors • Aug 21,2013

Can We Learn from Canada on Fiscal Policy?

Dr. George Selgin explains that the pre-Fed US system was a lousy system due to other government mandates. However, the current Federal Reserve System in the US is performing even...