Historically “liberalism” originally meant, and continues to mean for some, individual freedom, private property, free enterprise and impartial rule of law under constitutionally limited government.
Richard M. Ebeling
Dr. Richard M. Ebeling is the recently appointed BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel. He was formerly professor of Economics at Northwood University, president of The Foundation for Economic Education (2003–2008), was the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College (1988–2003) in Hillsdale, Michigan, and served as vice president of academic affairs for The Future of Freedom Foundation (1989–2003).
The Mystique of State Power
Governments and ideological movements, Rougier explained, wrap themselves in “mystiques” that serve as the rationales for claims to an ethical and legal right to rule.
Only Capitalism Can End The Racism of “Identity Politics”
The change from social attitudes and political systems of collectivism to that of ones more “individualistic” began in “the West,” in Europe and then North America.
America Does Not Need Socialism, But More Laissez-Faire Capitalism
The program for a socialist America shows the intellectual bankruptcy of those on “the left.”
Austrian Monetary Theory vs. Federal Reserve Inflation Targeting
The phantom of “inflation targeting.”
Ten Years On: Recession, Recovery and the Regulatory State
All that the American economy has gone through over the last decade is not a “crisis of capitalism,” understood as a truly free market, but the crisis of the government managed and manipulated system of economic control, command and accompanying corruption.
The Anti-Capitalist Attack on Freedom of Thought, Speech, and Association
The assertion and repetition of “white privilege,” “the one percent,” “social justice,” “racist,” “gay-basher,” “LGBT-hater,” “gender insensitivity,” etc., have had numbing effects on private and public discourse.
Freedom and the Fear of Self-Responsibility
“Socialism, or the reliance on the state for help, stands in antagonism to self-help, or the activity of the individual.”
Global Corruption and the Role of Government
The corruption of government officials seems to be as old as recorded history.
Society Is Not a Family, Government Is Not a Parent
The fact is, “society” is ultimately made up of individuals who, over centuries of slow and truly enlightened thought and controversy, have come to be considered to possess certain inherent and unalienable rights to life, liberty, and honestly acquired property under an appropriate system of an impartial and unbiased rule of law.
The Inca Elite and the “Communism” of the Common People
The Inca rulers imposed on almost all in society a compulsory equalitarianism in virtually all things.
A Declaration of Independence from Bad Government
Never before in history had a people declared and then established a government based on the principles of the individual’s right to his life, liberty, and property.
Government Monopoly Money vs. Personal Choice in Currency
Greater monetary freedom would not only give every citizen a legal right to protect and secure his income, wealth and market transactions from abusive mismanagement of the government’s monopoly monetary printing press. It could also serve as a check on the degree of such government abuse.
Karl Marx’s Ideas and Errors About Capitalism and Communism, Part Two
The task is not to be on some mythical “right side of history,” but to make history reflect the triumph and success of the idea and ideals of human liberty.
Karl Marx’s Ideas and Errors About Capitalism and Markets, Part One
Marx saw himself as the sociological and economic analyst of the capitalist epoch through which he was living.
Economic Ideas: Frédéric Bastiat on the Law of Liberty and Free Markets
Almost 170 years have passed since Frédéric Bastiat’s death, but there are few writers on economic topics that remain as readable or relevant to the issues of our own day.
Politicians are in “Crisis,” Not the Ordinary American
Outside the Washington Beltway, Life Goes on Very Normally
Tariff Walls and Trade Wars Equal Government Planning
Both President Trump and Chinese President Xi are proponents of central planning, with the interests of the State taking precedence over the liberty and peaceful choices of their citizens.
Political Planning Requires Coercion; Market Planning Requires Cooperation
The essential element in government planning is the threat or use of force to make all the others in society conform to political planner’s purposes and intentions.
Trade Deficits Are Only Dangerous When Caused By Government
Governments have sold their bonds to fund vote-buying welfare state spending, or expanding bureaucracies with loyal supporters of power-hungry politicians, or on delusional dreams of military power, or colossal public works projects hailing the greatness of the dictatorial or democratically elected leader.
The Anti-Capitalist Counter-Revolution On College Campuses
The intellectual intolerance and resort to physical force to prevent speakers from addressing students represents a dangerous totalitarian streak among so-called “progressives.”
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