Politics & Rights
History, Politics & Rights
The Day Communism Crumbled: Remembering the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Craig Biddle November 9, 2009
Here’s a great discussion with Yaron Brook and Terry Jones on PJTV about the fall of the Berlin Wall. (Free registration may be required.) http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=video&video-id=2681
History, Politics & Rights
20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Craig Biddle November 9, 2009
Here’s a nicely done video by the folks at CEI commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (HT Michelle Minton): https://www.youtube.com/v/6bw5pFiTeb0
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
The Best Option For The Public
Paul Hsieh November 6, 2009
In the November 4, 2009 Boston Globe, Jeff Jacoby outlines the best option for the public. (Hint -- it's not the "public option".) From his article, "An option for public: less government, more choice": A government-run health insurer would radically tilt the health-insurance playing field. It would amount to a…
Philosophy, Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
Praying Won't Make It So
Stella Daily Zawistowski November 5, 2009
I'm a second-year student in the Objectivist Academic Center, and the class is currently working through the difference between the metaphysically given (such as the law of gravity) and the man-made (such as traffic laws). The man-made is the result of choice, and as such is subject to praise or…
Politics & Rights
Net Neutrality Means an Unfree, Slow, and 'Stupid' Internet
Raymond C. Niles October 8, 2009
The chairman of the FCC recently called for applying “net neutrality” to the wireless spectrum. Such a measure would dramatically extend the reach of proposed “net neutrality” rules, which were originally slated to govern the delivery of Internet content via wire—cable and DSL lines—but not via wireless signals. The expanded…
Politics & Rights
Four Important Articles for this God-Awful Date
Craig Biddle September 11, 2009
“End States Who Sponsor Terrorism” by Leonard Peikoff “Just War Theory” vs. American Self-Defense by Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein The “Forward Strategy” for Failure by Yaron Brook and Elan Journo “No Substitute for Victory”: The Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism by John David Lewis
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
The Creed of Sacrifice vs. The Land of Liberty
Craig Biddle August 20, 2009
Examines the morality of altruism, exposing its incompatibility with the basic principle of America (i.e., individual rights), identifying its philosophic roots, and showing that if Americans want to save America, they must repudiate this creed, root and branch.
Politics & Rights
An Unwinnable War?
Elan Journo August 20, 2009
The introduction to the forthcoming book, Winning the Unwinnable War: America’s Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism, which is edited by Mr. Journo and includes essays by Yaron Brook, Elan Journo, and Alex Epstein.
Politics & Rights
America’s Self-Crippled Foreign Policy
Craig Biddle August 20, 2009
Discusses the dismal state of American foreign policy and what should be done about it.
Politics & Rights
Obama’s Atomic Bomb: The Ideological Clarity of the Democratic Agenda
John David Lewis August 20, 2009
Examines America’s political climate in light of the unmistakably statist agenda emanating from Washington, and finds cause for optimism in the effect Obama is having on the minds of Americans—and cause for activism toward helping Americans to see the proper political alternative: not conservatism but capitalism.