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Animal Rights

Rights only apply to rational beings whose needs are best fulfilled by production and trade...

Jan 23, 2011
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3 Mins
Taking the Tea Party at Face Value

Some of the signature values that animated a previous generation—independence, prudence, and self-discipline—seem to be in short supply.....

Dec 28, 2010
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Bradley Doucet
10 Mins
Europe's Last Dictatorship: An Interview with Jaroslav Romanchuk

On December 20th, 2010, the government of Belarus launched a sweeping crack-down (see news photo below) against opposition..

Dec 21, 2010
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Robert James Bidinotto
12 Mins
How Racist Are We?

I’m a bit of a racist. I’ll bet you are one, too.

Dec 19, 2010
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8 Mins
How Preet Bharara Is Changing the Nature of Insider Trading

In my editorial “ Consider the Source ,” I speculated that Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, was

Dec 15, 2010
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3 Mins
Consider the Source: U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara

Earlier, I mentioned that accusation —of “rampant” insider trading—in connection with a sweeping new prosecution that has been launched by

Dec 14, 2010
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5 Mins
A Better Way to Run a Railroad

May 1998 -- In 1987, several railroad executives believed there was a better way to run a railroad. After finding an opportunity to acquire

Dec 1, 2010
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Frank Bryan
8 Mins
America's Deficit Culture

We’ve heard for years that the government’s deficit was too big. They said it of Reagan’s deficit and George W. Bush’s. But no government...

Dec 1, 2010
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9 Mins
Check Your Premises

“Check your premises” is an injunction that runs as a subtheme through Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged , and it is a phrase that seems to...

Nov 28, 2010
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3 Mins
Andy McCarthy on the Insider-Trading Case

Andy McCarthy was a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, which is where many financial cases are tried. Thus, he speaks

Nov 25, 2010
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2 Mins
Obama and the Bush Tax Cuts

The first great post-election policy decision facing the lame-duck, Democrat-dominated Congress is whether or not to allow taxes to

Nov 23, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Skilling Seeks New Trial

Jeff Skilling’s lawyer has presented arguments for a new trial to a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit. The centerpiece of his case...

Nov 5, 2010
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1 Min
Ban Big Government, Not Political Speech

The Democrats can’t garner votes in the 2010 general elections by bragging about their legislative achievements—greater government control..

Oct 27, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Ideological Differences and Political Evolution

January 2001 -- With both presidential candidates advocating education plans, health-care plans, and tax-cut plans, and parading their relig

Oct 21, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
9 Mins
Environmentalism: Don't Judge It by Its Extremists

February 2001 -- In recent months, the Environmental Liberation Front (ELF) has claimed responsibility for acts of arson across the country

Oct 21, 2010
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Patrick Stephens
5 Mins
Morality and Politics

February 2001 -- A nation's political trends are governed by several factors--the state of the economy, the vested interests of politicians

Oct 21, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
5 Mins
The Moral Necessity of Missile Defense

March 2001 -- At the June 1967 Glassboro Summit, President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara implored Soviet premier

Oct 20, 2010
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James S. Robbins
5 Mins
Postmodern Medicine

Postmodernism is the most recent incarnation and the now-reigning cult of the "anti-Enlightenment," having arisen largely from the ravings

Oct 19, 2010
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James Lee Brooks
7 Mins
The Wealth and Social Health of America

June 2001 -- [BOOK REVIEW] It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years. By Stephen Moore and Julian Simon

Oct 19, 2010
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Herbert Grubel
10 Mins
Auto-mobility and Freedom

A century and a half ago, the legal scholar Sir Henry Maine observed that the evolution of human society was a movement from a society of...

Oct 18, 2010
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Sam Kazman
10 Mins

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