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Alex Epstein's Articles
Politics & Rights
Letters and Replies, Fall 2009
Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein answer a letter about the purpose of war versus the tactics of war.
History, Science & Technology
Energy at the Speed of Thought: The Original Alternative Energy Market
Alex Epstein May 20, 2009
Surveys the history of the U.S. energy industry, with special emphasis on oil as the lifeblood of the modern world and on freedom as the condition that enabled oilmen to make it flow.
Economics, History
Vindicating Capitalism: The Real History of the Standard Oil Company
Alex Epstein May 20, 2008
Examines the inception and rise of Standard Oil, demonstrates that the company’s immense success was the result not of so-called “anti-competitive” practices or “predatory pricing” but of its superior efficiency and productivity, and does long-overdue justice to one of the greatest producers of life-serving values in history: John D. Rockefeller.
Politics & Rights
Neoconservative Foreign Policy: An Autopsy
Surveys the manifest failure of neoconservative foreign policy, which is alleged to be in America’s “national interest,” zeros in on the fundamental reason for that failure, and calls for the only moral and practical alternative to it: a foreign policy of genuine American self-interest.
Politics & Rights
“Just War Theory” vs. American Self-Defense
Presents the principles of “Just War Theory”—the disastrous, altruistic theory underlying and guiding the Bush administration’s so-called “War on Terrorism”—and contrasts them with the principles of a proper, egoistic approach to American self-defense.
