Richard Ebeling

Richard M. Ebeling, an AIER Senior Fellow, is the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel, in Charleston, South Carolina. Ebeling lived on AIER's campus from 2008 to 2009.

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Economics

July 3, 2018

How Democracies Become Tyrannical

While democracy historically was part of the great movement for human liberty, majorities potentially could be as dictatorial and dangerous as the most ruthless and oppressive kings and princes of the past.
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Culture

August 14, 2017

Would-Be Tyrants Capture Language to Control Thought

Made to feel guilty in thinking some thought, saying some word, or expressing some idea, and fearful about the consequences of doing so, an increasingly successful Orwellian-like thought police of politically correct “newspeak” is imposed on people in almost every circumstance of social life.
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History

August 11, 2017

Communism Became the Disease It Tried to Cure

In the end, the socialist state did not transform human nature; human nature found ways to use the socialist state for its own ends.
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History

March 13, 2017

Does Socialism Require a Dictator?

The dilemma, Marx explains, is that even after the overthrow of the capitalist system, residues of the previous system would remain.
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Economics

February 15, 2017

Karl Marx Was a Pretty Bad Person

Marx become an advocate of mass murder and dictatorship in place of liberal democracy and social peace.
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History

September 23, 2016

Did the Ancient Greeks Believe in Freedom?

Would the Ancient Greeks have understood our modern conception of man as a free, autonomous agent who chooses his own ends?
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Economics

December 9, 2015

When the Supreme Court Stopped FDR's Economic Fascism

There's a lot to know about America's history.
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