First, in a free society there really isn't as much of a class system as you may think. The correlation between a person's income and that
First, in a free society there really isn't as much of a class system as you may think. The correlation between a person's income and that
February 2001 -- A nation's political trends are governed by several factors--the state of the economy, the vested interests of politicians
June 2001 -- [BOOK REVIEW] It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years. By Stephen Moore and Julian Simon
I am sorry that, living in Argentina as you do, you have suffered through a terrible economic collapse. But you were not living in anything
If I understand the Bush administration's proposal from early 2005, it was intended to transition the Social Security system to something
If only Progressivism could be a genus of Objectivism! But, alas, no.The Progressive movement was originally an intellectual and political
The Objectivist answer to poverty and other social problems is: 1) create a society in which people have clear reasons to be responsible...
"The needy" come in two classes: those who are unable to care for themselves, and those who are able. Objectivism holds that it is not...
March 2005 -- Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from David Kelley's book A Life of One's Own: Individual Rights and the Welfare
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
That’s the charge that Newsweek columnist and Slate Magazine editor Jacob Weisberg has laid against the advocates of markets in a recent..
A large billboard in a local Metro station cautions passersby to “Cover your cough” and “Wash your hands frequently” when you have a cold...
Days after the Soviet Union collapsed, and shortly after the Iron Curtain fell, David Kelley delivered this lecture at the University of
If socialism were a respectable affiliation, Progressives would probably call themselves “democratic socialists.”But socialism died as a....
Greg Hitt and Jeanne Cummings wrote on the front page of the Wall Street Journal (September 26, 2001): "In just two weeks, the terrorist....
The final figures are in. According to Isabelle Dubois-Costes of General Funeral Services in France, the death toll in the country's summer
“What is required of us now,” said President Barack Obama in his inaugural speech, “is a new era of responsibility—a recognition, on the....
When Objectivists speak of capitalism, we mean laissez-faire capitalism, a political system based on the individual rights to life...