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Ari Armstrong reviews The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism is the World Economy’s Only Hope, by John Allison.

Ari Armstrong reviews Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins.

Mr. Zubrin discusses the history and scourge of antihumanism.

Mr. Levey discusses the U.S. presidential race and potential appointments to the Supreme Court.

Takes to task claims that religion was somehow responsible for the profound scientific advancements that animated the 16th and 17th centuries, and shows that the cause of these advancements was not religion or faith but the partial freeing of the mind from religious restrictions and the consequent use of observation and logic.

What does the entitlement mentality mean for America? Mother Jones published a “secret” video of Mitt Romney speaking at a private fundraising event in which the Republican candidate discussed the entitlement mentality: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right,…

Surveys the history and tenets of religion and shows that religion, in every essential respect, is utterly at odds with the requirements of a rational, practical, life-serving morality

Highlights principles of Ayn Rand’s philosophy that are essential to supporting individual rights and thus to restoring America as the Land of Liberty.

Islamists celebrated 9/11 by slaughtering more Americans: “The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other American staff members were killed Tuesday in an attack on the U.S. consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, the White House confirmed.” Meanwhile, in Egypt, Islamists stormed the U.S. Embassy. The pretext for this…

Richard Salsman answers a letter about Objective Economics.

Craig Biddle introduces the Fall 2012 issue.

Blaming a video for “inciting” Islamists to murder Americans and destroy U.S. embassies is absurd and reprehensible. Attacking free speech because of the atrocities of Islamists is an assault on the very foundations of America. The Los Angeles Times reports: Administration officials have asked YouTube to review a controversial video…

At a recent speech in Lakewood, Colorado, Paul Ryan said the following: We believe in the promise of this country. We believe in the idea of this country. And we know that this country—which is the greatest country on the face of this earth, by the way—it’s exceptional for a…

[caption id="attachment_8844" align="alignright" width="300"] Image: Gage Skidmore[/caption] GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan sets forth his basic political philosophy in an August 13, 2012 article for American Spectator, “Who Built America?” Ryan explicitly attempts to make the “moral case” for capitalism, arguing that “people have a God-given right to use…

There is a growing effort on the part of parents of children in government-run schools to broaden the options open to them for improving their children’s education. This movement, known as the parental school choice movement, has been underway for decades. But a new effort within the movement has recently…