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A Short Course in Rule-Breaking

Near the beginning of the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Butch Cassidy is challenged to a knife fight by another member of his Ho

May 30, 2010
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ديفيد كيلي، دكتوراه
8 Mins
The Rise of Eliot Spitzer

When Washington Post reporter Brooke Masters set out to write this thorough account of Eliot Spitzer’s career as attorney general of New....

May 21, 2010
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7 Mins
Why Are We So Afraid of Flying?

February 19, 2009 -- Fear serves an important function, alerting us to perceived danger. As long as that perception is grounded in reality

May 7, 2010
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برادلي دوسيت
6 Mins
Are We Addicted to Addiction?

March 26, 2010—It used to be that someone who regularly drank or ate to excess was simply considered a glutton. A person who tried to get

Apr 20, 2010
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برادلي دوسيت
5 Mins
Military Service and Liberty

In life, we take risks to achieve and maintain values. Objectivism holds that you should choose a course in life that will be conducive to

Apr 14, 2010
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ويليام توماس
4 Mins
Do Shareholders "Own" a Corporation?

Early in her novel Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand presents us with a scene aboard a train that is entering Philadelphia. “An office building...

Apr 14, 2010
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8 Mins
Drug Prohibition, Prostitution, and Pornography

Objectivism holds that the sole purpose of government is to secure our right to live free from force. This implies property rights and

Apr 14, 2010
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ويليام توماس
3 Mins
Spring is a Time for Personal Renewal

March 28, 2002 -- Summer ended last year on September 11th with a bitter blast to our souls. But we were warmed by the heroism of police...

Apr 4, 2010
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إدوارد هودجينز
4 Mins
A Cool Capitalist

It's a typical 3-H Washington, D.C. summer: hazy, hot and humid. And with small variations, the rest of the country...

Mar 12, 2010
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إدوارد هودجينز
3 Mins
Why Does Anyone Need a Philosophy?

Mar 11, 2010
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ويليام توماس
5 Mins
Rachel Ehrenfeld's Law

In February of this year, the Danish newspaper Politiken issued a formal apology for republishing a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed clad....

Mar 1, 2010
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كيرا نيومان
6 Mins
The Eccentric Entrepreneur

It’s about 2:30 a.m. when Laurent Prouvost bursts out of the pizzeria into driving rain. He races down Hickory Street after his stolen pedic

Jan 4, 2010
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داني فولجينسيو
8 Mins
Fashion Forward

If the great cities of the world were personified as women, you might think of Paris as fearlessly avant-garde. New York is, obviously, a...

Nov 30, 2009
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أماندا إريكسون
6 Mins
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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ديفيد كيلي، دكتوراه
9 Mins
Atlas Shrugged in Haight-Ashbury: A Memoir

Like a stock market that has finally found its bottom after a long, volatile decline, my spiritual assets were nearly depleted. I finally...

Apr 1, 2009
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مولي سيكريست
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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روبرت إل برادلي جونيور
5 Mins
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
TNI's Interview with Walter Williams

I’m doing an autobiography. My long-time friend and colleague, Thomas Sowell, wrote an autobiography, A Personal Odyssey. He’s been after

Mar 1, 2006
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سارة بنتز
12 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
Honoring Rand: Dagny Shoots and Flies

Dagny Taggart shoots guns and flies airplanes. These rational survival skills exhilarate all the heroes in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged...

Dec 20, 2004
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مادلين كوسمان
3 Mins

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