David Kelley

The heroes of Ayn Rand’s fiction are great achievers, like Howard Roark, the superlative architect in The Fountainhead, and John Galt, the brilliant physicist-philosopher in Atlas Shrugged. Moreover, Galt is a revolutionary advocate for achievers: he leads a strike of the most productive people by convincing them to shrug off the burdens society has placed on them.

El sistema capitalista se inició en el siglo que va de 1750 a 1850, como resultado de tres revoluciones. La primera fue una revolución política: el triunfo del liberalismo, particularmente la doctrina de los derechos naturales, y la visión de que la función del gobierno debe limitarse a proteger los derechos individuales, incluyendo los derechos de propiedad.

¿Cuántas veces a la semana decimos "Tengo que ..."?

Para la mayoría de nosotros sigue siendo imposible captar la destrucción del World Trade Center.

Este artículo fue preparado en combinación con la presentación de David Kelley en el Especial de ABC News "Greed", con John Stossel, el 3 de febrero, 1998.

¿Por qué Ted Turner está pidiendo perdón por su riqueza?

January 26, 2006 -- BB&T, a major bank with branches through the Southeast, has taken a stand for private property and individual rights, in reaction to the Supreme Court’s Kelo decision on eminent domain last June. The corporation announced that “it will not lend to commercial developers that plan to build condominiums, shopping malls and other private projects on land taken from private citizens by government entities using eminent domain.” 

February 24, 2011 --

Editor's Note: The following article was written for the March 2011 Atlas Society newsletter.

February 28, 2003 -- A state university uses racial criteria in choosing candidates for admission. It has been doing this for years, as have similar institutions. By now, the practice is deeply rooted in the university's customs, vested interests, and bureaucratic inertia. It has the backing of local businesses who hire the graduates and use racial criteria themselves in personnel decisions. And it is defended by ideologues who see the world in terms of racial categories instead of individuals.

January, 2001 -- In the culture wars of our time, the culture that shaped our world has had no voice.