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Lessons Not Learned From the Housing Crisis

Two very different narratives attempt to explain the massive housing boom and subsequent crash.

Apr 12, 2012
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James Kourlas
10 Mins
Review: Moral Rights and Political Freedom

If man is to live on earth, it is right for him to use his mind, it is right to act on his own free judgment, it is right to work for his

Jan 27, 2012
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Myth: Ayn Rand was an Elitist

The heroes of Ayn Rand’s fiction are great achievers, like Howard Roark, the superlative architect in The Fountainhead, and John Galt, the b

Dec 19, 2011
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David Kelley, Ph.D.
5 mins
Security and Liberty

As the congress debates a new security bill and America faces a terrible and insidious threat, there is no more critical time to recall the

May 10, 2011
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3 Mins
Free Minds and Free Militaries

March 31, 2003 -- Among the perennial themes in American political life, one of the most crucial is the contest between individualism and

Apr 29, 2011
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5 Mins
Producers vs. Looters and Parasites

The producers in Atlas Shrugged represent the culmination of Rand's artistic goal to portray the human ideal; and their conflict with looters and parasites is the fullest statement of what she saw as an eternal conflict in human life.

Apr 12, 2011
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David Kelley, Ph.D.
2 Mins
Freedom of Religion and Freedom to Value

When I say 'capitalism,' I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism—with a separation of state and economics, in the

Apr 2, 2011
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6 Mins
Book Review: The Normality of Freedom

In 2003, the Supreme Court declared that people challenging the constitutionality of an economic regulation must "negative every conceivable

Mar 30, 2011
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Víctor Sperandeo
10 Mins
Sovietizing America: How Sustainable Development Crushes the Individual

April/May 2005 -- An unrecognized threat to the liberty and prosperity of each American has spread throughout the country, taking root in

Mar 29, 2011
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Michael Shaw und Edward Hudgins
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Republican Statists: Back to the Future?

Fall 2006 -- As I was completing work today on this issue of the magazine, I received an e-mail announcing publication of Ryan Sager’s new

Mar 25, 2011
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Bob J. Bidinotto
7 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
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
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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2 Mins
Labor Unions

An ideal Objectivist society would be one where there would be maximum individual freedom, and minimum governmental functions, primary among

Jan 26, 2011
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Malini Kochhar
2 Mins
Laissez-Faire Capitalism

Ayn Rand maintained the necessity of a government that kept its “hands off” the private lives of its citizens, while at the same time......

Jan 26, 2011
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Malini Kochhar
2 Mins
Libertarian Package Deals

April 2008 -- Editor’s note: I’m pleased to yield my usual editorial space this month to Gene Holloway, director of operations and

Jan 26, 2011
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Eugene C. Holloway
7 Mins
Liberalism vs. Objectivism

Ayn Rand criticized both the “liberal” Left and the “conservative” Right poles of American politics. She identified both major political

Jan 26, 2011
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5 Mins
Libertarianism--Is Thomas Fair to Schwartz and Peikoff?

Peter Schartz was not simply referring to the Libertarian party. See his " On Moral Sanctions ," in which he discusses the question "...

Jan 26, 2011
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2 Mins
Freedom of Speech

Objectivists absolutely hold that we have a right to freedom of speech. It is an aspect of our broader right to liberty: the right to take..

Jan 25, 2011
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William Thomas
2 Mins
Government Financing in a Free Society

Objectivism recognizes the necessity of a rational governmental authority that performs the basic functions of maintaining law and order...

Jan 25, 2011
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Malini Kochhar
3 Mins

Wir fördern den offenen Objektivismus: die Philosophie der Vernunft, der Leistung, des Individualismus und der Freiheit.