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Atlas Chased

When governments take too much money from productive individuals, not surprisingly individuals try to escape from their...

Mar 23, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Atlas Forced into Early Retirement

Governments often get their wealth-destroying, morally depraved ideas from our often misnamed institutes of "higher learning." The latest...

Mar 23, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Private I: Libertarianism: Bohemian or Bourgeois?

June 2007 -- When we measure the progress of a society by its growth in freedom, we measure it . . . by the greater power on the part of the

Mar 18, 2011
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Roger Donway
9 Mins
Public Nudity--Exposed!

January/February 2008 -- The town of Brattleboro, Vermont is a self-proclaimed avant-garde mecca. The busy downtown business district is rif

Mar 16, 2011
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Amanda Hall
9 Mins
Justice Vick-timized

December 2007 -- Last summer’s federal criminal charges against professional football player Michael Vick for running an illegal dogfighting

Mar 16, 2011
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Ray Newman
6 Mins
Inside "The Excuse-Making Industry" Part 2

December 2007 -- Editor’s note: Last month, Part I of the “Inside the Excuse-Making Industry” explained how, in the 1960s and 1970s, social

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
10 Mins
Sidebar: Scott Bullock and the Kelo Case

Scott Bullock joined the Institute for Justice at its founding in 1991 and serves as a senior attorney. He litigates property rights, free

Mar 13, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
2 Mins
Ban Government Racism, Not Discrimination

February 28, 2003 -- A state university uses racial criteria in choosing candidates for admission. It has been doing this for years, as have

Feb 2, 2011
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Dr. David Kelley
7 Mins
Washington Legal Foundation Files Amicus Brief in Rubashkin Case

When the ACLU gets involved in a case, even a business rights case, I tend not to notice, because of that organization’s infamous

Jan 28, 2011
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2 Mins
David Mayer Defends Liberty of Contract

Mayer, a professor of law at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, has just had a book published by the Cato Institute: Liberty..

Jan 27, 2011
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2 mins
Danielle Chiesi: Immoral Victim

I have not been blogging for the last month in order to devote my full time to an historically important violation of Business Rights. Now..

Jan 25, 2011
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2 Mins
Capital Punishment

Ayn Rand argued that those who mete out death to others certainly deserve it back as a matter of justice (assuming that we are speaking of..

Jan 23, 2011
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2 Mins
Abortion

In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court declared a constitutionally protected right to abortion. Far from resolving the debate that gave rise to it..

Jan 23, 2011
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8 Mins
Europe's Last Dictatorship: An Interview with Jaroslav Romanchuk

On December 20th, 2010, the government of Belarus launched a sweeping crack-down (see news photo below) against opposition..

Dec 21, 2010
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Robert James Bidinotto
12 Mins
How Preet Bharara Is Changing the Nature of Insider Trading

In my editorial “ Consider the Source ,” I speculated that Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, was

Dec 15, 2010
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3 Mins
Consider the Source: U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara

Earlier, I mentioned that accusation —of “rampant” insider trading—in connection with a sweeping new prosecution that has been launched by

Dec 14, 2010
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5 Mins
Skilling Seeks New Trial

Jeff Skilling’s lawyer has presented arguments for a new trial to a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit. The centerpiece of his case...

Nov 5, 2010
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1 Min
Ban Big Government, Not Political Speech

The Democrats can’t garner votes in the 2010 general elections by bragging about their legislative achievements—greater government control..

Oct 27, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Statism Starts with You

Why did federal regulators not intervene sooner? A tragedy could have been averted. That was the first demand made following the accidental

Oct 15, 2010
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Ilana Mercer
4 Mins
Position Statement on Terrorists Attacks

November 2001 -- The Assault on Civilization , posted October 12, 2001. Published in the November 2001 Navigator . The position of The

Oct 14, 2010
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3 Mins

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