Richard Ebeling

Joe Biden seems to be hellbent on making his mark in history as one of the leading political paternalist and welfare statist presidents in recent times.

The President of the United States publicly lays out his 100-day plan for “defeating” the coronavirus, including whether the government will decide whether things are safe enough for people to have 4th of July gatherings of friends and family.

We are in the midst of an ideological war over the language we use and the associative interactions we participate in and benefit from.

China’s star seems to be rising on the global stage with the claim of strong economic growth, extending its military reach in Asia, and snuffing out the remaining freedoms in Hong Kong.

The more things change the more they stay the same, especially in terms of the return of wrong-headed and dangerous ideas

Three of the leading voices for liberty and the free society in the 20th century were F. A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and Ayn Rand

The news has been filled with additional information on the oppression and persecution of the Uyghur ethnic minority in the western region of China known as Xinjiang

Barely in office two weeks, and President Joe Biden has already signed far more executive orders than Trump, Obama, or W. Bush in the comparable period at the beginning of their, respective, terms in the White House

The presumption of political paternalists to arrogantly command and control how we live, work, and interact in the face of the imposed shutdowns and lockdowns and the behavior constraints in the face of the coronavirus crisis

Politically trying times clearly lie ahead in the United States, with the fallout from the November elections and the events in Washington, D.C. on January 6th

At 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

At one level, this year’s presidential election has been no different from others

This 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