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Life: Your Adventure in Entrepreneurship

The entrepreneurial spirit is the spirit of enterprise: ambition to succeed, initiative in taking action, alertness to opportunity. It mean

Jun 1, 2009
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David Kelley Ph.D
9 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
Why Is There No Money in Star Trek?

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...

May 10, 2009
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Bradley Doucet
5 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
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 Revolutionary Philosophy of Atlas Shrugged

One evening after the publication of The Fountainhead , Ayn Rand was on the phone, discussing her disappointment over early sales with....

Oct 7, 2007
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Robert James Bidinotto
9 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
Toward Heroic Capitalism

In 1859, the first treatise on “best practices” appeared: Self-Help, With Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance, by Samuel..

Jun 16, 2007
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Robert L. Bradley, Jr
5 Mins
Schools for Individualists: TNI's Interview with Marsha Familaro Enright

When I was a kid, I loved school and I loved to learn. I looked forward to it everyday. But I was frustrated by the many kids around me who.

Jun 1, 2007
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Sara Pentz
12 Mins
Atlas Shrugged Changed My Life

Exactly forty years ago, this month, I was contemplating the tattered wreckage of my college career. And The Book was responsible.

Apr 5, 2007
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Robert James Bidinotto
6 Mins
New Cult of Darkness

Since early men ignited the first fires in caves, the unleashing of energy for light, heat, cooking and every human need has been the....

Apr 2, 2007
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
The Best Thriller Writers—Ever

Let me state my case right up front: I think action thrillers are today’s most influential and effective vehicles for imparting the values..

Apr 1, 2007
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Robert James Bidinotto
10 Mins
Can Reporters Handle the Truth?

On August 5, 2006, Reuters published a photograph of smoke rising over Beirut from buildings hit by Israeli bombs. It was one of many

Apr 1, 2007
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David Kelley Ph.D
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Profile: The New York Times's Gretchen Morgenson

In 2005, at Minnesota’s St. Olaf College, the stirring peroration of that year’s commencement address advised the graduating seniors to

Apr 1, 2007
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10 Mins
Was Milton Friedman Pro-Capitalist?

Last year, on November 16 (the anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, ironically), Milton Friedman died at the age of ninety-four. The..

Apr 1, 2007
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7 Mins
Angelina Jolie set to star in Atlas Shrugged

It's official: Angelina Jolie is set to star in the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. David Kelley, Founder and Senior Fellow of

Sep 21, 2006
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2 Mins
Celebrity Rand Fans

It was the evening of May 13, 2004, and on PBS-TV’s Charlie Rose Show the host was chatting with actor Brad Pitt about Troy...

Jan 1, 2006
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Robert James Bidinotto
10 Mins
Cartoon Journalists

But for advanced lessons in this craven policy, which I hereby dub “anticipatory capitulation,” I direct American “journalists” to study...

Dec 1, 2005
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Robert James Bidinotto
7 Mins
The Means and Ends of Islamists

After each new suicide attack, as innocent blood flows in the streets of Baghdad, London, Madrid, or Tel Aviv, there is a surge of

Jul 1, 2005
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Edward Hudgins
10 Mins
Eliot Spitzer: Ayatollah General

Eliot Spitzer became the attorney general of New York in 1999. In addition to carrying out the routine functions of that office, he has used

Apr 1, 2005
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12 Mins

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