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9/11 and The War Against Modernity

Why do they hate us? How could they have done this? What were they trying to achieve?

May 1, 2002
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David Kelley Ph.D
10 Mins
The New Totalitarians

What President Bush has called the first war of the twenty-first century has much in common with the great wars of the century just past...

Dec 1, 2001
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Brink Lindsey
7 Mins
The Justice of War

As the United States pursues its war in Afghanistan, the national and the international press have focused attention on the civilian

Dec 1, 2001
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Patrick Stephens
10 Mins
American Heroism

The terrorist attacks of September 11 showed us good and evil, heroism and villainy. There were people who stared death in the face and, set

Nov 1, 2001
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William Thomas
6 Mins
Living Wages Are Anti-Life

July/August 2001 -- Students at Harvard and activists throughout the country have been fighting lately for a so-called "living wage" of

Oct 18, 2001
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D. Moskovitz
4 Mins
Unilateral Moral Disarmament

Awakening on the morning of September 11, 2001, we Americans were proud, happy, and confident. We knew ourselves to be the only Superpower—

Oct 1, 2001
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Robert James Bidinotto
9 Mins
The Assault on Civilization

Most of us still find it impossible to grasp the destruction of the World Trade Center. It was real, we saw it, but it does not belong in...

Sep 13, 2001
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David Kelley Ph.D
4 Mins
Animal Rights and Vegetarianism

Many believe that animals have the right to be free from harm by people. In particular, they believe that animals should not be harmed in fo

Jan 23, 2001
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D. Moskovitz
3 Mins
The Moral Argument for the Death Penalty

Editor's note: The author of this essay, Robert James Bidinotto, is also the author of numerous articles and several books, including...

Feb 16, 2000
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Super User
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Outtakes from interview with Jerome Huyler

That is an interesting story. Originally, I planned to write a Ph.D. dissertation confined to interpreting Locke's moral and political

Sep 1, 1999
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8 Mins
How Lockean Was the American Revolution?

First, it is important to appreciate that Locke was simultaneously a dedicated political activist and a profound thinker. His body of

Sep 1, 1999
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12 Mins
Property, Liberty, Prosperity

When Ayn Rand called capitalism "the unknown ideal," she might have meant one of two things: Capitalism is an ideal social system that we have never known; or, capitalism is a social system that we have never known to be an ideal.

Jun 2, 1999
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20 Mins
Litigating for Liberty - Interview with Scott G. Bullock (Institute for Justice)

Description: In the following interview, Scott G. Bullock recapitulates and expands upon the main points of a talk he gave at an IOS [now

Jan 1, 1998
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10 Mins
Making Known the Capitalism Ideal

When, in 1966, Ayn Rand brought together a small collection of Objectivist articles on politics and economics, she called the book Capitalis

Aug 1, 1997
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David Henderson
10 Mins
Green Machine

Robert James Bidinotto, who writes about crime, environmentalism, and other topics for Reader's Digest and other publications, addressed the

May 2, 1993
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Robert James Bidinotto
10 Mins
In Defense of Decades of Greed

Description: Matthew Josephson’s 1934 best-seller, The Robber Barons, with its damning portraits of great industrialists and Marxist analysi

Sep 4, 1992
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Walter Donway
6 Mins

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