Abortion: When Do Rights Begin?
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"Pure and Perfect" Competition? By What Standard?
This article is an adaptation of a lecture Mr. Salsman gave at Harvard University, in May of 1999. The print version has been edited lightly in order to retain it’s spontaneous quality. Mr. Salsman has not reviewed the edited version.I’ve mentioned some of...Regis Philbin Feels Our Pain
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A good therapist can offer you something most other people cannot: psychological information on how to explain troubling emotions, better manage stress, and obtain an objective perspective from somebody not involved in your personal life. No therapist, however, can...Pragmatism, Altruism, and Businessmen
Question. In a recent program, you claimed the actions of several businessmen were driven to do business with the government by the morality of altruism. Isn’t pragmatism a more accurate description? Given the extent to which property rights have been eroded,...Don’t Destroy America’s Best: Will America Repeat the Errors of Ancient Greece
In Judge Jackson’s “findings of fact” in which he declared Microsoft to be a dangerous monopoly, one fact was undisputed: the defendant is extraordinarily successful. This success is often described in terms of “market share,” which is a...Is the U.S. Embargo of Cuba the Cause of Cuba’s Economic Woes?
It is Cuba’s totalitarian economy (socialism) that is the cause of her economic woes.