A few years ago, a colleague whose intelligence I respect invited me to attend a lecture he was going to give. "This will not be one of.....
Part of the frustration we feel at these shortages is caused by the very price-gouging laws that our elected officials assure us are for...
Consider the following situation. It is 1963. You are a twenty-one-year-old graduate of Tuskegee University, rooming in Washington, D.C....
September 2004 -- As John Enright notes , there is a wealth of poetry about political and personal freedom. I thought Navigator's readers
I've gathered for you some poems that celebrate political and personal freedom. I like them, and I hope you will like them, too. This is onl
Those who love Ayn Rand 's novels have searched, with little result, for works that are similar to Rand's in both ideas and essential
Soft America lives off the productivity, creativity, and competence of Hard America, and we have the luxury of keeping part of our society S
When one thinks of Enlightenment literature (other than the newly emerging novel), what comes to mind are once-vibrant forms sunk to dry
libel laws pro and conFrom Libertarianism.org: "In this video from a 1986 Free Press Association event, Nat Hentoff and David Kelley engage
The Atlas Society’s Ayn Rand “Draw My Life” video has now attracted nearly 400,000 views. And the comments from viewers of the video-
When I first encountered Don Giovanni 30 years ago, I was struck by the political, social, and philosophical messages in the work...
January, 2004 -- Inventors are of two sorts. The first says: "Here is a principle. How can it be used?" The second says: "Here is a problem
"Better the US government should violate the rule of law in 87 ways than that one kosher butcher should violate securities law in 87 ways"?
Cara Ellison is one of the very few bloggers who defends fallen businessmen. She is particularly passionate about Enron, where she worked...
July/August 2003 -- While collecting entries for this issue's "Cultural Calendar," my thoughts returned to David Kelley's article "For a
April 2004 -- Editor's Note: Charles Murray is the W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom at the American Enterprise Institute in Washi..
During the fourth century B.C.—we don't know exactly when—a man, a resident of Athens, a student and teacher of philosophy, changed the worl
It seems that SMARTS Software , developed in part by Professor Mike Aitken , has now been sold to 150 brokers worldwide who use “its...
June 12, 2010 -- June is a big month for sports fans. Tennis fans have the French Open, basketball fans have the NBA Finals, and hockey fans
I am always surprised to find a report more sympathetic than I am to businessmen facing legal persecution--and when the report comes from
