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Yaron Brook'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.
Economics
America’s Unfree Market
Yaron Brook February 20, 2009
Demonstrates the actual nature of the allegedly free market that delivered the current mayhem.
Economics, Politics & Rights
The Resurgence of Big Government
Yaron Brook August 20, 2008
Identifies the cause of America's two-decade swing to the right, explains why this cause was philosophically insufficient to sustain the movement toward capitalism, and indicates what Americans must understand if we want to resume the trek toward freedom, armed with the means to sustain it.
Economics, History
The Morality of Moneylending: A Short History
Yaron Brook August 20, 2007
Presents an essentialized history of usury, showing that, just as moneylenders are being damned and blamed for today's "sub-prime mortgage crisis," so they have been condemned and castigated for alleged wrongdoing from the beginning of Western civilization. Brook zeros in on the economic and moral premises that give rise to contempt for this profession; he identifies the moral-practical dichotomy inherent in these ideas; and he discusses a unified set of principles that must be understood and embraced if moneylending is to be seen as the noble business that it actually is.
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
The “Forward Strategy” for Failure
Yaron Brook February 20, 2007
Examines the Bush administration’s so-called war strategy and shows that its manifest failure is a consequence not of good ideas poorly implemented, but of the morally corrupt ideas motivating the administration.
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.
