Richard Ebeling
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPolitics
Witnessing Lithuania’s 1991 Fight for Freedom from Soviet Power
by Richard Ebeling January 12, 2021At a time when serious concerns are being expressed and experienced about individual freedom and political self-government in America right now, it is worth remembering that you really don’t always appreciate what you’ve had until you’ve lost it
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPolitics
Carl Menger and the Sesquicentennial Founding of the Austrian School
by Richard Ebeling January 7, 2021At a time when a wide variety of misguided and wrong-headed economic ideas are swirling around the arenas of public policy, it is worth taking note of 2021 being the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Austrian School of Economics
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ConstitutionGovernmentLibertyPolitics
Freedom versus Paternalism in the Coming Decade
by Richard Ebeling January 4, 2021What might we glean about what may be ahead, not only from 2020, but from the first twenty years of the 21st century.
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ConstitutionGovernmentPoliticsRegulation
Private Charity versus the Political Grinches
by Richard Ebeling December 23, 2020This year, 2020, has been a hard and disturbing one for virtually all of us due to the coronavirus and, especially, the government’s heavy-handed shutdown and lockdown responses
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ConstitutionGovernmentPolitics
Why Hayek was Right About Nazis Being Socialists
by Richard Ebeling December 8, 2020If there is one thing that drives many on the American political “left” crazy is it to remind them that the Nazis, also, were socialists, just not the kind, cuddly, “democratic” kind that makes them feel warm all over
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Don’t Confuse Free Markets with the Interventionist State
by Richard Ebeling December 2, 2020The important task for those who value personal freedom, economic liberty and the free market economy is to disabuse our fellow citizens from thinking that what we have is a fully capitalist system
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Do Not Trust Governments with the Control of Money
by Richard Ebeling November 17, 2020Why is the gold standard hated so much by these critics?
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ConstitutionGovernmentLibertyPoliticsRegulation
Why Politics Breeds Divisive Fears and Angers
by Richard Ebeling November 10, 2020Americans Divided on the Most Important Issues
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EconomicsGovernmentLibertyPoliticsRegulation
Unmasking Paul Krugman’s Misrepresentation of Ayn Rand
by Richard Ebeling October 28, 2020He claimed that the U.S. has suffered from almost 9 million Coronavirus cases and experienced 230,000 deaths all because Ayn Rand and libertarians in general teach a philosophy of misplaced “freedom”
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Government Policies Have Worsened the Coronavirus Crisis
by Richard Ebeling October 21, 2020There is no doubt that 2020 has become a unique event in almost everyone’s life due to the Coronavirus and the response of almost all governments everywhere in the world
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentLibertyPolitics
The Political Circus and the Court
by Richard Ebeling October 13, 2020All the opinion polls suggested that the VP debate did little or nothing to change voter decisions
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If I Ruled the World: A Dangerous Dream
by Richard Ebeling October 7, 2020The 1960s song, “If I Ruled the World,” captures the premises and presumptions of those who want to remake society in their own collectivist images
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Milton Friedman and the New Attack on Freedom to Choose
by Richard Ebeling September 22, 2020A counter-revolution against freedom is busy at work in the United States today, and it is, perhaps, not surprising that one of its targets has become the late free market economist, Milton Friedman