Richard Ebeling
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPolitics
Dangerous Monetary Manipulations and Fiscal Follies
by Richard Ebeling April 6, 2021Joe 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.
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ConstitutionGovernmentPolitics
Wars and “Following the Science” are Sure Paths to Tyranny
by Richard Ebeling March 30, 2021The 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.
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ConstitutionGovernmentPolitics
Welcome to Word Tyranny and Cultural Balkanization
by Richard Ebeling March 15, 2021We are in the midst of an ideological war over the language we use and the associative interactions we participate in and benefit from.
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPolitics
Lin Yutang, a Classical Liberal Voice for a Free China
by Richard Ebeling March 9, 2021China’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.
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ConstitutionGovernmentPodcast
Socialism-in-Practice Was a Nightmare, Not Utopia
by Richard Ebeling February 23, 2021The more things change the more they stay the same, especially in terms of the return of wrong-headed and dangerous ideas
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentLibertyPolitics
The Case for Freedom in Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, and Ayn Rand
by Richard Ebeling February 19, 2021Three of the leading voices for liberty and the free society in the 20th century were F. A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and Ayn Rand
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPolitics
The Uyghurs as Victims of Chinese National Socialism
by Richard Ebeling February 8, 2021The 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
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ConstitutionGovernmentLibertyPolitics
Biden’s Executive Orders vs. American Public Opinion
by Richard Ebeling February 3, 2021Barely 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
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ConstitutionGovernmentPolitics
Collectivism Breeds Indifference to the Loss of Liberty
by Richard Ebeling January 22, 2021The 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
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ConstitutionGovernmentPoliticsRegulation
Trump’s Fall and the Rise of the Tribal Collectivists
by Richard Ebeling January 19, 2021Politically 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
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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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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentLibertyPolitics
Francis Lieber’s America and the Politics of Today
by Richard Ebeling January 6, 2021At one level, this year’s presidential election has been no different from others
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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