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Idées et idéologies

Econophobia: The Irrational Fear of Makers and Marketers

What has prompted people, over the course of three millennia, to look upon work and commerce as degrading and deceitful? Why have they

Jan 1, 2008
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7 Mins
Capitalist Heroes

Ayn Rand published her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged in 1957. It's an enduringly popular novel -- all 1,168 pages of it -- with some 150,000

Oct 10, 2007
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David Kelley, Ph.D.
4 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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Robert L. Bradley Junior
5 Mins
New Cult of Darkness

Since early men ignited the first fires in caves, the unleashing of energy for light, heat, cooking and every human need has been the....

Apr 2, 2007
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Edouard Hudgins
4 Mins
Can Reporters Handle the Truth?

On August 5, 2006, Reuters published a photograph of smoke rising over Beirut from buildings hit by Israeli bombs. It was one of many

Apr 1, 2007
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David Kelley, Ph.D.
12
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
Up from Conservatism

There is no commonly-acknowledged conservative position today, and any claim to the contrary is easy to make sport of...

Mar 1, 2007
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Robert J. Bidinotto
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 Ayn Rand: The Morality of Capitalism

Outside the concentration camps, which all collectivists felt necessary to establish in order to physically exterminate the last vestiges of

Dec 20, 2004
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Marian L. Tupy
4 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 J. Bidinotto
10 Mins
The Party of Modernity

As Henry Steele Commager noted in The Empire of Reason: "It was Americans who not only embraced the body of Enlightenment principles, but...

Nov 16, 2003
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David Kelley, Ph.D.
10 Mins
Can There be an "After Socialism"?

Sep 27, 2003
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Alan Charles Kors
10 Mins
The Company of One's Kind

In 1987, during an in-depth interview, Barbara Walters pointedly asked actor Sean Connery why he chose to play golf only with men. It was...

Apr 1, 2003
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Russel La Vallée
10 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
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
From the Silk Trade Route to the World Trade Center

Two millennia before the World Trade Center soared over the New York skyline, another creation of commerce served the same purpose of peace

Nov 1, 2001
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Neera K. Badhwar
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 J. 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
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
The Lessons of Littleton: A Letter to Teens

It's the issue that won't go away. The tragedy at Columbine High School, in Littleton, Colorado, was only one in a series of violent episode

Jun 1, 1999
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David Kelley, Ph.D.

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