November 24, 2005 - Posted by Jeffrey Perren
A new documentary from co-directors Robert and Ron Galloway examines Wal-Mart's business practices. They assert the attacks on Wal-Mart parallel those against the producers in Ayn Rand's magnum opus.
It is straight out of (Ayn Rand's ... »
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November 23, 2005 - Posted by Joshua Zader
This op-ed will appear on Thanksgiving Day in the Washington Times.
The Productive Meaning of Thanksgiving
by Edward Hudgins
American homes on the fourth Thursday in November will waft with more than the aroma of turkey and ... »
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November 15, 2005 - Posted by Jeffrey Perren
Sometimes, unfortunately, life imitates art.
Caroline Baum, in a brilliant column at Bloomberg.com, demonstrates some regrettable parallels between Atlas Shrugged and the recent hearings on oil company profits.
In the wake of record earnings Senators Frist, Domenici, ... »
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November 14, 2005 - Posted by Joshua Zader
Objectivist economist George Reisman has a new article at the Ludwig von Mises Institute titled "Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian." The article was originally delivered as a lecture at the ... »
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November 10, 2005 - Posted by Joshua Zader
From Robert Bidinotto:
With the recent gasoline price crisis, congressional Republicans had a matchless opportunity to rally public opinion in order to steamroll radical environmentalists, and, at long last, open taboo regions -- such as the ... »
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November 8, 2005 - Posted by Shawn Klein
Two new articles from the lastest edition of The Objectivist Center's The New Individualist. Ed Hudgins, in "The Means and Ends of Islamists," shows that the violent means of the Islamists reflect their culture ... »
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November 6, 2005 - Posted by Joshua Zader
Robert Bidinotto has a terrific new article on the riots in France. He begins:
As many observers have noted, the mainstream media (MSM) have marched in lockstep in their desperation to minimize the role that ... »
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November 5, 2005 - Posted by Joshua Zader
Shannon Love offers useful free-market insights into the root causes of the increasingly widespread riots in France:
Via Instapundit comes a discussion on whether the riots in France, and the general breakdown of law and order ... »
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November 1, 2005 - Posted by Jeffrey Perren
Google is undertaking a large, long-term project to make the content of hard copy books (remember those?) available via the Internet.
Such a project would unquestionably benefit many in significant ways. Nick Taylor, in a ... »
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October 26, 2005 - Posted by Jeffrey Perren
In a stellar short essay, Uriah Kriegel illuminates a dangerous trend in legislative thinking -- adherence to the principle: that which is not explicitly allowed is therefore forbidden.
Kriegel focuses on some absurd recent rulings of ... »
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