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Sidebar: Pioneers of Egalitarianism

Richard Henry Tawney (1880–1962) was a British historian who spent most of his career at the London School of Economics. He wrote widely on

Sep 8, 2010
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David Kelley, Ph.D.
2 Mins
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters -and Multiculturalists

This is a collection of essays and reviews by an American sociologist who for some forty years has been slugging it out in academic journals

Aug 31, 2010
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Walter Donway
10 Mins
The Parasites' Paradise

September/October 2002 -- BOOK REVIEW: Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism . By Joshua Muravchik. (San Francisco, Calif...

Aug 30, 2010
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Howard Dickman
8 Mins
Nat Hentoff and David Kelley on Libel Laws, Pro and Con

libel laws pro and conFrom Libertarianism.org: "In this video from a 1986 Free Press Association event, Nat Hentoff and David Kelley engage

Aug 15, 2010
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2 Mins
War: An Objectivist View

Consider two horrific acts. Number one: a depressed father enters his living room, shoots his wife and children, and then himself. Number

Jul 1, 2010
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William Thomas
10 Mins
Libertarianism and Objectivism: Compatible?

Libertarianism is the political position that all human relationships should be voluntary, i.e. not subject to the initiation of force by...

Jun 29, 2010
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William Thomas
5 Mins
Choose or Lose: How Regulation Destroys Value

When economic crises hit, politicians of both parties are demanding more regulation of the economy. Failures in banking and finance...

Jun 26, 2010
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William Thomas
10 mins
The Forgotten Essentials of Jefferson's Philosophy

"The twentieth-century statesman whom the Thomas Jefferson of January 1793 would have admired most is Pol Pot," head of the totalitarian....

Jun 23, 2010
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David N. Mayer
10 Mins
The Normality of Freedom

In 2003, the Supreme Court declared that people challenging the constitutionality of an economic regulation must "negative every conceivable

Jun 22, 2010
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Timothée Sandefur
10 Mins
In Defense of Cowboy Capitalism

Many Americans—and even more Europeans—employ a pre-modern ideal when judging the market economy. According to this ideal, individuals enter

Jun 16, 2010
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9 Mins
Nationalism: Will It Help a Country Thrive?

Nationalism is the doctrine that a unitary cultural and political entity, the nation, should be the organizing principle of society....

Jun 11, 2010
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William Thomas
4 Mins
Free Speech and Postmodernism

In the last lecture, we looked at those arguments that won the debate for free speech. Historically, those arguments were nested in

Jun 11, 2010
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Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
7 Mins
Understanding Force and Fraud

An inquiry into fraud (or indeed into direct physical coercion) must begin with an inquiry into rights. For neither fraud nor coercion can

May 21, 2010
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5 Mins
Is There a Right to Health Care?

Bill Clinton ran for president last year by attacking the 1980s as a "decade of greed" —attacking the leveraged buyouts and hostile takeover

May 12, 2010
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David Kelley, Ph.D.
10 Mins
Altruism and Capitalism

The capitalist system came of age in the century from 1750 to 1850 as a result of three revolutions. The first was a political revolution...

May 12, 2010
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David Kelley, Ph.D.
10 Mins
Foundations Study Guide: Political Philosophy

Fred Miller is professor of philosophy and executive director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University.

May 3, 2010
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Fred Miller
10 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
Objectivism and the Military

Objectivism has no position on most of the questions you ask, and in many cases the same general answer applies: We'll see when we get there

Apr 14, 2010
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William Thomas
3 Mins
How is Marxism different than Objectivism?

Marxism and Objectivism are similar in very few respects: —They are systems of thought. But Marxism is primarily a political and economic

Apr 14, 2010
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William Thomas
2 Mins
Rights and Self-Interest

Objectivism's social ethic (which underlies its theory of rights) is based on the recognition of a complex fact about rational beings: that

Apr 8, 2010
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William Thomas
3 Mins

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