Freedom of Religion and Freedom to Value
When I say 'capitalism,' I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism—with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state...
View ArticleLosing While Winning
Fall 2011 -- Newsflash: it’s a competitive world out there! Some of us are winning and some are losing. It’s the game of live-and-let-live together.read more
View ArticleJennifer Burns on TNI's David Kelley
Sidebar article to: "Goddess Undeified", a review of Jennifer Burns's Goddess of the Market The New Individualist’s founding editor David Kelley gets a characteristically fact-based and sympathetic...
View ArticleIs this Objectivism?
Sidebar article to: "Goddess Undeified." a review of the book Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, by Jennifer Burns.read more
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Interview with Anne Conover Heller
TNI's William Thomas interviews Anne Conover Heller on the writing of her acclaimed biography Ayn Rand and the World She Made. Heller is a formerexecutive editor at Condé Nast Publications and the...
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Individual Rights: The Objectivist View
Spring 2009 -- The Declaration of Independence states that the purpose of government is to secure the rights of man. Most Americans know and assent to the stirring words:We hold these Truths to be...
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Goddess, Undeified
BOOK REVIEW: Jennifer Burns, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) 369 pages. $27.95 read more
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Fight Club: How bad politics turns good neighbors into rivals
THERE’S A CIVIL WAR RAGING IN MY TOWN. On the Public School Front, my side (call us the “Alliance for Choice”) was recently crushed by the Egalitarian Axis in the Battle of the Universal Pre-K Lottery....
View ArticleDecoding the Credit Crisis
Spring 2009 -- Are libertarians blindly faithful? Do they hew to ideology not because of, but despite the facts?read more
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Choose or Lose: How Regulation Destroys Value
With the current economic crisis still deepening, politicians of both parties are demanding more regulation of the economy. Failures in banking and finance, unsound investments, Ponzi schemes—they are...
View ArticleBook Review: "Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged"
BOOK REVIEW: Edward W. Younkins, Editor, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion (Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, Hampshire, UK 2007) 431 pages, $24.95 (paperback).read more
View ArticleAyn Rand's Philosophical Stunt Novel
October 2007 -- Ayn Rand called Atlas Shrugged a “stunt novel.” She meant that it is a rollicking entertainment: a mystery novel with dramatic twists and revelations, a satirical burlesque of...
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America's New Action Hero: Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand’s star is on the rise. From the rowdy Chicago trading floor, to burgeoning tea parties and intense town hall confrontations, to pundits on cable TV, Rand’s ideas have galvanized tens of...
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America's Deficit Culture
Winter 2010 issue -- We’ve heard for years that the government’s deficit was too big. They said it of Reagan’s deficit and George W. Bush’s. But no government debt crisis ever came, nor should it have....
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