Richard Ebeling

Political election seasons are always interesting times.

America and some other parts of the world are facing a “revivalist” movement, but rather than being a religious revival, it is an ideological revivalism calling for a turn away from freedom and the open society.

“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.”

We increasingly live in a new “dark age” of economic ignorance, and even stupidity.

Social and economic crises, real and imagined, often seem to bring out the most wrongheaded thinking in matters of government policy.

At any moment in time, the world seems to be going to hell in a handbasket.

Simon Newcomb’s conclusions, after a century and a half more of failed government interferences of almost every imaginable form and type, stand as even more reasonable than when he penned them: those in government should simply leave people alone. 

Promises, promises, promises. It is the season for political promises.

It seems that every generation or two, fundamental economic ideas are questioned and challenged.

If there is one common enemy that all opponents of individual liberty, free markets, and limited government seemingly can agree upon it is the “evil” of neo-liberalism.

Socialism is the antisocial system of politics over people, governmental power instead of peaceful and free association, and a handful of imposed political plans instead of a pluralism of as many plans as there are people in the world.

Another partial federal government “shutdown” began on December 22, 2018.

At a time when the appeal of and demands for a new “democratic” socialism seem to have caught the imagination of many among the young.