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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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Robert L. Bradley, Jr
5 Mins
Preparing for the Next War

"Perhaps there is no great point in recalling all the tragic and idiotic blunders, all the false optimism, all the unrealism of the first ph

Apr 1, 2007
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James Joyner
10 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
Was Milton Friedman Pro-Capitalist?

Last year, on November 16 (the anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, ironically), Milton Friedman died at the age of ninety-four. The..

Apr 1, 2007
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7 Mins
The Vindication of Frank Quattrone

Frank Quattrone has just become the greatest businessman in three generations to escape the anti-business persecutions of twentieth-century

Sep 1, 2006
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9 Mins
The Fall of Ken Lay: An Interview with Former Enron Insider Robert Bradley Jr.

Robert L. Bradley Jr. was a long-time employee of Enron Corporation, the collapsed corporate giant. During the company’s last seven years he

Apr 1, 2006
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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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Sara Pentz
12 Mins
Mohammad Cartoon Controversy: The Jihad Against Free Speech

The West once again has been forced to confront the clash of cultures. Muslims worldwide rage and riot over Danish newspaper cartoons that..

Mar 1, 2006
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Edward Hudgins
10 Mins
The Means and Ends of Islamists

After each new suicide attack, as innocent blood flows in the streets of Baghdad, London, Madrid, or Tel Aviv, there is a surge of

Jul 1, 2005
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Edward Hudgins
10 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
Why Ecology Requires Economics

One is a one-quarter-acre plot in Rwanda. The other is a thousand-acre wheat farm in Australia. Both are failing. In Rwanda, the...

Apr 1, 2005
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8 Mins
Freedom, Achievement, Individualism, Reason: Objectivism

Objectivism is the philosophy of rational individualism founded by Ayn Rand (1905-82). In novels such as The Fountainhead and Atlas

Dec 1, 2004
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10 Mins
Rockefeller and the Muckrakers

Just as there is much to celebrate in the life of John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), so is there much to loathe in the muckrakers' treatment o

Jul 18, 2004
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4 Mins
The Case for Frank Quattrone

Frank Quattrone, the star investment banker of the dot-com era, was convicted in federal court on two counts of obstructing justice and....

Jul 1, 2004
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10 Mins
Death by Environmentalism

What does it mean in practice to hold a philosophy that declares that pristine nature has intrinsic value in itself, and that regards Man...

Mar 1, 2004
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Robert James Bidinotto
10 Mins
How Chile Was Saved

In 1956, an extraordinary three-year agreement on cooperation was signed by the Department of Economics at the Chicago University and the...

Sep 1, 2003
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Jose Pinera
6 Mins
For a Museum of Capitalism

There are museums of art, science, and natural history in major cities throughout the world. New York City alone has dozens of art museums,

Jan 6, 2003
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David Kelley Ph.D
5 Mins
The Inherent Individualism of Insurance

As human beings, we fear chaos and confusion and fight against them. We appreciate order. We celebrate reason, logic, and science because...

Nov 1, 2002
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Stephen A. Moses
10 Mins
The Law in Wartime

The structure of our federal system can be explained in major part by the final two provisions of our Bill of Rights, the Ninth and Tenth

Jul 1, 2002
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Robert A. Levy
7 Mins
Islamism and Modernity; Lou Dobbs is Right

CNN’s Lou Dobbs has come in for criticism for saying something sensible and insightful. It is too vague and too politically correct to call

Jun 10, 2002
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David Kelley Ph.D
4 Mins

Nous promouvons un objectivisme ouvert : la philosophie de la raison, de la réussite, de l'individualisme et de la liberté.