If history is any guide, the current economic crisis will have two results. First, large-scale government intervention will make the crisis
Let me say right from the start that I like the Star Trek franchise. I don’t spend my free time learning to speak Klingon—no offence to...
The Declaration of Independence states that the purpose of government is to secure the rights of man. Most Americans know and assent to the
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...
We can understand why President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress do not want to call their attempts to socialize America’s economy..
Like a stock market that has finally found its bottom after a long, volatile decline, my spiritual assets were nearly depleted. I finally...
We’ve seen this week just what sort of warped morality guides Barack Obama and his administration. And we’ve seen just what we can expect if
Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty last Thursday, March 12, to running a massive Ponzi scheme that swindled investors out of some $65 billion. He
Winston Churchill famously observed that, “socialism is the equal sharing of misery.” In the same spirit, Democratic presidential candidate
They say that fish can’t see the water they swim in. It’s a common analogy for the tendency to take our basic values and principles so much
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
The first 2008 presidential election event involving the presumptive nominees, Illinois Democratic Senator Barack Obama and Arizona Republic
H.L. Mencken once wrote that, “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.....
The 9/11 attacks and the subsequent war on Islamic jihadism divided virtually every ideological faction in America. On the far left,
Readers of Ayn Rand ’s Atlas Shrugged , which so notably portrayed the American businessman as a hero, may well be wondering what to say
What has prompted people, over the course of three millennia, to look upon work and commerce as degrading and deceitful? Why have they
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
Ayn Rand called Atlas Shrugged a “stunt novel.” She meant that it is a rollicking entertainment: a mystery novel with dramatic twists and
One evening after the publication of The Fountainhead , Ayn Rand was on the phone, discussing her disappointment over early sales with....
