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Obama's Era of Responsibility

“What is required of us now,” said President Barack Obama in his inaugural speech, “is a new era of responsibility—a recognition, on the....

Jun 30, 2009
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David Kelley Ph.D
6 Mins
Iran and Obama's Hollow Moral Core

In December 1989, I stopped in Moscow, on my way to Estonia as part of the first group from the West to hold a conference on free markets in

Jun 25, 2009
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Poverty, Capitalism, and Class

When Objectivists speak of capitalism, we mean laissez-faire capitalism, a political system based on the individual rights to life...

Jun 19, 2009
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William Thomas
4 Mins
What Happened to Business Prudence?

More than 200 years ago, Adam Smith determined that economic self-interest advanced the wider commercial good as if led by an invisible hand

Jun 1, 2009
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Robert L. Bradley, Jr
3 Mins
The Persecution of KPMG

If history is any guide, the current economic crisis will have two results. First, large-scale government intervention will make the crisis

May 21, 2009
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10 Mins
Individual Rights: The Objectivist View

The Declaration of Independence states that the purpose of government is to secure the rights of man. Most Americans know and assent to the

May 5, 2009
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William Thomas
8 Mins
The Fourth Revolution

The capitalist system came of age in the century from 1750 to 1850 as a result of three revolutions. The first was a political revolution...

May 1, 2009
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David Kelley Ph.D
10 Mins
Obama's Grab-Bag Socialism

We can understand why President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress do not want to call their attempts to socialize America’s economy..

Apr 4, 2009
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Edward Hudgins
7 Mins
Why Don't We End the Government-Run Ponzi Scheme?

Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty last Thursday, March 12, to running a massive Ponzi scheme that swindled investors out of some $65 billion. He

Mar 19, 2009
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Bradley Doucet
6 Mins
Obama Chicks in Bondage

Winston Churchill famously observed that, “socialism is the equal sharing of misery.” In the same spirit, Democratic presidential candidate

Oct 24, 2008
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Edward Hudgins
7 Mins
Mining Nature's Ultimate Resource

In 1972, just two years after the first Earth Day, a team of scholars from MIT published a 200-page book called The Limits to Growth. Using

Sep 1, 2008
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Robert L. Bradley, Jr
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Obama and McCain: The Selfless-Driven Interviews

The first 2008 presidential election event involving the presumptive nominees, Illinois Democratic Senator Barack Obama and Arizona Republic

Aug 19, 2008
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
America's April 15th Civil War

H.L. Mencken once wrote that, “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.....

Apr 15, 2008
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
The War Over Libertarian Foreign Policy

The 9/11 attacks and the subsequent war on Islamic jihadism divided virtually every ideological faction in America. On the far left,

Apr 1, 2008
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9 Mins
Econophobia: The Irrational Fear of Makers and Marketers

What has prompted people, over the course of three millennia, to look upon work and commerce as degrading and deceitful? Why have they

Jan 1, 2008
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7 Mins
The Two Faces of Capitalism

Readers of Ayn Rand ’s Atlas Shrugged , which so notably portrayed the American businessman as a hero, may well be wondering what to say

Jan 1, 2008
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Robert Bradley, Jr
8 Mins
Capitalist Heroes

Ayn Rand published her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged in 1957. It's an enduringly popular novel -- all 1,168 pages of it -- with some 150,000

Oct 10, 2007
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David Kelley Ph.D
4 Mins
The Politics of Mutual Plunder

As the prices of oil, gasoline, and natural gas have skyrocketed over the past year, many people have demanded that the government do

Sep 7, 2007
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Robert James Bidinotto
7 Mins
Individualism in Orbit: Morality for the High Frontier

Today, we live “in the future”—the future that for decades had been depicted in science fiction, pursued by scientists and engineers, and...

Jul 1, 2007
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Edward Hudgins
10 Mins
Rx for Coercion

It's one of the hottest ideas in health care policy.

Jul 1, 2007
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David Hogberg
6 Mins

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