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Is John Galt Venezuelan?

On January 1, Venezuela entered into its second month of a national work stoppage. Close to 90 percent of the working population refuses to

Mar 23, 2011
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Thor Halvorssen
3 Mins
James Clavell's Asian Adventures

So said James Clavell, an Australian immigrant to America who learned the fundamentals of the American outlook on life in a horrific...

Mar 23, 2011
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Marsha Enright
10 Mins
Atlas Chased

When governments take too much money from productive individuals, not surprisingly individuals try to escape from their...

Mar 23, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Atlas Forced into Early Retirement

Governments often get their wealth-destroying, morally depraved ideas from our often misnamed institutes of "higher learning." The latest...

Mar 23, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

A sweeping novel of ideas, Atlas depicts the frightening, near-future disintegration and collapse of civilization into chaos and anarchy...

Mar 21, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
5 Mins
Private I: Who Elected Democracy?

Back when I was writing the annual “Lands of Liberty” survey for the magazine Navigator, I would always include in the introduction a justification for evaluating the degree of democratic freedom in a country.

Mar 21, 2011
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Roger Donway
8 mins
Private I: Libertarianism: Bohemian or Bourgeois?

June 2007 -- When we measure the progress of a society by its growth in freedom, we measure it . . . by the greater power on the part of the

Mar 18, 2011
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Roger Donway
9 Mins
Bobos, Liberaltarians, and Hippies of the Right

“Pretty soon [the young intellectual] will announce that it is time to reject the false choices of both left and right. We must all move

Mar 18, 2011
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10 Mins
Strike from Space: Seizing the Ultimate High Ground

July/August 2007 -- In 1989, a solar flare helped trigger the shutdown of a good portion of eastern Canada’s electrical grid. In May 1998

Mar 18, 2011
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Taylor Dinerman
8 Mins
TNI's Interview with "Jihad Watcher" Robert Spencer

The institutionalized discrimination against women and religious minorities, the denial of the freedom of conscience, the deeply rooted

Mar 17, 2011
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Kyrel Zantonavitch
5 Mins
TNI's Interview with Jed Babbin

It’s a natural progression. Americans are generous and don’t wish to impute evil to anyone, so we usually write it off as bluff and bluster

Mar 16, 2011
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James Joyner
5 mins
Public Nudity--Exposed!

January/February 2008 -- The town of Brattleboro, Vermont is a self-proclaimed avant-garde mecca. The busy downtown business district is rif

Mar 16, 2011
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Amanda Hall
9 Mins
Book Review: A Century of "Liberal Fascism"

With America committed to war overseas, an American president (who many consider to be racist) suspends vast swatches of American liberties

Mar 16, 2011
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Edward B. Driscoll, Jr.
7 Mins
Justice Vick-timized

December 2007 -- Last summer’s federal criminal charges against professional football player Michael Vick for running an illegal dogfighting

Mar 16, 2011
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Ray Newman
6 Mins
Book Review: Shall "the Permanent Things" Endure?

“Conservatism is too often a conservation of the wrong things,” said T.S. Eliot during a lecture in 1937, “liberalism a relaxation of

Mar 16, 2011
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6 Mins
Inside "The Excuse-Making Industry" Part 2

December 2007 -- Editor’s note: Last month, Part I of the “Inside the Excuse-Making Industry” explained how, in the 1960s and 1970s, social

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
10 Mins
Sidebar: Scott Bullock and the Kelo Case

Scott Bullock joined the Institute for Justice at its founding in 1991 and serves as a senior attorney. He litigates property rights, free

Mar 13, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
2 Mins
Free Trade and the Poor

Objectivism holds that each person should be responsible for himself, and be free to live as he judges best. This doesn't preclude charity..

Feb 25, 2011
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Sidebar: David Kelley, Screenplay Advisor

My chief role on this script—as on scripts from previous projects—was to review the script before it was finalized and flag anything

Feb 23, 2011
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4 Mins
Yes, the Dumb Buggers Stepped on the Gas

Such were the wise words of P. J. O’Rourke the last time drivers tried to blame their car accidents on “sudden unintended acceleration....

Feb 9, 2011
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