WAR WITH IRAN
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CULTURE
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress By Stephen Pinker
Enlightenment Now is just what the world needs right now. It is a defense of the ideas and values that have created the modern world, and a defense of that world itself.
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LAW
The Right to Self-Defense is Deeper than Gun Control
So many of the issues of our time — or perhaps any time — hinge on whether one considers the full context, or only one element of it.
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MARKETS
Protectionists in Plunderland
If we Americans are indeed made better off the greater are foreigners’ demands for our exports, how are we made worse off by foreigners’ economic success given that such success invariably increases their demands for our exports?
Economics for the Citizen (Part 3)
There are four classes of behavior that can be called economic behavior. They are: production, consumption, exchange and specialization.
Economics for the Citizen (Part 2)
Economic theory can’t answer normative questions.
Economics for the Citizen (Part 1)
The first lesson in economic theory is that we live in a world of scarcity.
WORLD
Kofi Annan and the United Nations
Kofi Annan is in deep trouble.The aura of invincibility that has surrounded Annan in his six-year tenure as United Nations secretary general has been shattered, and it is increasingly likely that he will go in the next six to 12 months. The man who undeservedly won...
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SCI-TECH
Value Created by First Martian Explorer
In my article "Mars: Who Should Own It," I stated: Whoever implements the concept of getting to Mars and living there turns a virtually worthless ball of rock into something of substantial value. Let's check my premises. First: Will Mars, after a successful mission,...
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POLITICS
You’ll Freeze in the Dark!
If we keep giving the state more power over our lives, we will freeze in the dark.
Rush Limbaugh vs Individual Rights
I happened to hear Rush Limbaugh on Friday. He sarcastically chastised the pundits and “really smart people” who argue that the Republican party must be more inclusive. We should reach out to women, he said, by being pro-abortion. We should reach out to gays, he said,...
America’s Bad Marriage
Being wrong tends to lead people to become defensive. Defensiveness and hostility, frozen in place in a person's mind, leads to irrational stubbornness and intellectual dishonesty. This is what happens in the demise of many marriages and relationships, or even...
Unlimited Government vs. Capitalism
In her essay, “The Anatomy of Compromise,” Ayn Rand wrote: “When opposite basic principles are clearly and openly defined, it works to the advantage of the rational side; when they are not clearly defined, but are hidden or evaded, it works to the advantage of the...