In December 1989, I stopped in Moscow, on my way to Estonia as part of the first group from the West to hold a conference on free markets in
When Objectivists speak of capitalism, we mean laissez-faire capitalism, a political system based on the individual rights to life...
Sidebar to: Fashion Forward betsy fisherMy husband Lyle handed me a copy of The Ayn Reader in 2002. The essays were searing. The clarity and logic of Rand's philosophy of Objectivism cut through contradictions and dissatisfaction in a way that psychotherapy could not and did not. A copy of Atlas Shrugged had adorned my parents' book shelves, but I read the novels only after exposure to Objectivist metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics had provided a very necessary and new way to grasp reality.
More than 200 years ago, Adam Smith determined that economic self-interest advanced the wider commercial good as if led by an invisible hand
The entrepreneurial spirit is the spirit of enterprise: ambition to succeed, initiative in taking action, alertness to opportunity. It mean
If history is any guide, the current economic crisis will have two results. First, large-scale government intervention will make the crisis
Let me say right from the start that I like the Star Trek franchise. I don’t spend my free time learning to speak Klingon—no offence to...
If you want to know what to expect from the Democrats’ plans for total government control of health care—and government control of everything else for that matter—consider the case of Terry Kaide, 87, and her husband Sidney, 89, both of Hawaii, Barack Obama’s state of origin. For two years this couple was not allowed to live together in the same residential care home. Why? Because government regulations allow two patients paid for by Medicaid but only one privately-paying patient to reside in that facility at the same time. This rule was meant to ensure that there are enough beds for poorer patients, who require government Medicaid funds. (Note here the moral mentality of the politicians who made this rule: If you can pay your own way, the government should limit your choices, to make the situation “fair.”) For two years officials tried to figure out a way to get around their own stupid, tangled, and inexcusable rules. Finally, the Hawaiian state legislature passed a bill that created exemptions for married couples and others. So the good news is the Kaides are back together again. And perhaps it’s also good news that this case could alert Americans to what their lives will be like if they further surrender their freedom to run their own lives to elites in Congress and the White House.
The Declaration of Independence states that the purpose of government is to secure the rights of man. Most Americans know and assent to the
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...
We can understand why President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress do not want to call their attempts to socialize America’s economy..
Like a stock market that has finally found its bottom after a long, volatile decline, my spiritual assets were nearly depleted. I finally...
We’ve seen this week just what sort of warped morality guides Barack Obama and his administration. And we’ve seen just what we can expect if
Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty last Thursday, March 12, to running a massive Ponzi scheme that swindled investors out of some $65 billion. He
Winston Churchill famously observed that, “socialism is the equal sharing of misery.” In the same spirit, Democratic presidential candidate
They say that fish can’t see the water they swim in. It’s a common analogy for the tendency to take our basic values and principles so much
In 1972, just two years after the first Earth Day, a team of scholars from MIT published a 200-page book called The Limits to Growth. Using
The first 2008 presidential election event involving the presumptive nominees, Illinois Democratic Senator Barack Obama and Arizona Republic
H.L. Mencken once wrote that, “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.....
The 9/11 attacks and the subsequent war on Islamic jihadism divided virtually every ideological faction in America. On the far left,
In December 1989, I stopped in Moscow, on my way to Estonia as part of the first group from the West to hold a conference on free markets in
When Objectivists speak of capitalism, we mean laissez-faire capitalism, a political system based on the individual rights to life...
Sidebar to: Fashion Forward betsy fisherMy husband Lyle handed me a copy of The Ayn Reader in 2002. The essays were searing. The clarity and logic of Rand's philosophy of Objectivism cut through contradictions and dissatisfaction in a way that psychotherapy could not and did not. A copy of Atlas Shrugged had adorned my parents' book shelves, but I read the novels only after exposure to Objectivist metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics had provided a very necessary and new way to grasp reality.
More than 200 years ago, Adam Smith determined that economic self-interest advanced the wider commercial good as if led by an invisible hand
The entrepreneurial spirit is the spirit of enterprise: ambition to succeed, initiative in taking action, alertness to opportunity. It mean
If history is any guide, the current economic crisis will have two results. First, large-scale government intervention will make the crisis
Let me say right from the start that I like the Star Trek franchise. I don’t spend my free time learning to speak Klingon—no offence to...
If you want to know what to expect from the Democrats’ plans for total government control of health care—and government control of everything else for that matter—consider the case of Terry Kaide, 87, and her husband Sidney, 89, both of Hawaii, Barack Obama’s state of origin. For two years this couple was not allowed to live together in the same residential care home. Why? Because government regulations allow two patients paid for by Medicaid but only one privately-paying patient to reside in that facility at the same time. This rule was meant to ensure that there are enough beds for poorer patients, who require government Medicaid funds. (Note here the moral mentality of the politicians who made this rule: If you can pay your own way, the government should limit your choices, to make the situation “fair.”) For two years officials tried to figure out a way to get around their own stupid, tangled, and inexcusable rules. Finally, the Hawaiian state legislature passed a bill that created exemptions for married couples and others. So the good news is the Kaides are back together again. And perhaps it’s also good news that this case could alert Americans to what their lives will be like if they further surrender their freedom to run their own lives to elites in Congress and the White House.
The Declaration of Independence states that the purpose of government is to secure the rights of man. Most Americans know and assent to the
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...
We can understand why President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress do not want to call their attempts to socialize America’s economy..
Like a stock market that has finally found its bottom after a long, volatile decline, my spiritual assets were nearly depleted. I finally...
We’ve seen this week just what sort of warped morality guides Barack Obama and his administration. And we’ve seen just what we can expect if
Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty last Thursday, March 12, to running a massive Ponzi scheme that swindled investors out of some $65 billion. He
Winston Churchill famously observed that, “socialism is the equal sharing of misery.” In the same spirit, Democratic presidential candidate
They say that fish can’t see the water they swim in. It’s a common analogy for the tendency to take our basic values and principles so much
In 1972, just two years after the first Earth Day, a team of scholars from MIT published a 200-page book called The Limits to Growth. Using
The first 2008 presidential election event involving the presumptive nominees, Illinois Democratic Senator Barack Obama and Arizona Republic
H.L. Mencken once wrote that, “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.....
The 9/11 attacks and the subsequent war on Islamic jihadism divided virtually every ideological faction in America. On the far left,