Capitalism Magazine

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Ben Franklin’s statement remains true today. But the absence of rule of law produces anarchy. In the most far-reaching corruption scandal in its history, the Los Angeles Police Department — governed by its second consecutive black chief […]

An education bill seems to be moving through Congress to some sort of bipartisan consensus. Like many other bipartisan measures, it serves the short-term interests of Democrats and Republicans, not the long-term interests of the public. Despite some largely cosmetic reforms, what the pending legislation essentially represents is spending more money on the status quo. […]

Smoking a cigarette was symbolic to Miss Rand. As one character in Atlas Shrugged said, “I like to think of fire held in a man’s hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what […]

MARINA DEL REY, CA — The plight of Elian Gonzalez is an American issue not just a Cuban-American one, said a spokesperson for the Ayn Rand Institute. “Elian’s case is fundamentally the conflict between the individual and the collective,” said Amy Peikoff, J.D. “Cuba, led by Castro, insists that Elian belongs to the people and […]

…The kidnapping of Elian, of course, had nothing to do with Elian’s welfare. The motive of the raid was obviously an attempt by Reno to short-circuit Elian’s bid for asylum and to railroad him back to Cuba before he could even have a hearing. She was counting on the fact that a six year old […]

Pollsters call them the “SHE issues” — Social Security, health care, and education. In 1992 and 1996, Bill Clinton lost the male vote. Women put him over the top. More women vote than do men, with women accounting for 53 percent of the electorate. Smart politics, therefore, dictates paying attention to “women’s issues.” Eric Smith, […]

Who could abridge a right so obvious, violate a relationship so sacred, as to separate a boy from his father? Fidel Castro, for one. In the early 1960′s, Castro shut down Catholic schools and shipped children to the Soviet Union for “education” on collective farms. Rather than submit, Cuban parents smuggled 14,000 children, unaccompanied, to […]

A courageous University of Tennessee professor finds herself under fire. Her crime? Dr. Linda Bensel-Meyers, who teaches English, puts the student part of the so-called student-athlete first, the athlete part second. In 1995, the professor first informed the university that athletes receive special and unfair treatment. The school, she said, did not take her assertions […]

Only a month ago, the Justice Department filed its motion that the Microsoft Corporation be broken into pieces as a “remedy” under the antitrust laws. The government wants to split the company into two pieces, one to make the Windows operating system, the other to develop the specific software applications that run on that system. […]