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Letters To The Editor (April 2021)
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The Science Behind ‘Climate Change’
Does the data validate those who say humans are causing the earth to catastrophically warm?
Why Americans Should Not Abolish The Electoral College
For more than two centuries the Electoral College has encouraged coalition building, given a voice to both big and small states, and discouraged voter fraud.
“Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death!”
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
Karl Marx and Fruits of Communism
When writing The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx thought he was providing a road to utopia, but everywhere his ideas were tried, they resulted in catastrophe and mass murder. In this video, Paul Kengor, Professor of Political...
Jimmy Lai and the Fight for Freedom in Hong Kong
Jimmy Lai, the entrepreneur and leader in the fight to preserve freedom in Hong Kong, describes the struggles he has endured including having his home fire-bombed, his family harassed, and his business threatened by the Chinese Communist Party.
Video: The War on Cops by Heather Mac Donald
Since summer 2014, America has been convulsed with a protest movement known as Black Lives Matter, which claims that police officers are among the greatest threats—if not the greatest threat—to young black males. Heather Mac Donald...
Three Things You Did Not Know About Islam
Three things about Islam you didn’t know. For every opinion or belief someone may hold there will be another party who just as strongly oppose that idea. Both sides usually claim to sit with the best arguments, the real facts and the...
Allan Gotthelf: A Shining Example of a Life of Reason Well Lived
“Allan saw his love of Aristotle and of Ayn Rand as of a piece. He was right, because Aristotle and Rand do advocate the same fundamentals: the commitment to reason and to living life fully, realizing one’s highest potential as man.”
Letters to the Editor: September 2005
United Nation Reforms Worse Than Doing Nothing September 21, 2005 To the editor; Mr. Journo's cogent article (The UN's "Virtue" Is Its Vice) hit the nail right on the head: what is wrong with the UN is not economic corruption, improperly orgainzed institutions, or a...
Ayn Rand Institute’s “In Moral Defense Of Israel” Released By Candian Government
IRVINE, CA--After a three-day detention, Canadian Customs released today a shipment of newsletters from the Ayn Rand Institute titled "In Moral Defense of Israel." Dr. Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, said "The detainment at the Canadian...
An American Peace: How to Win the War Against Terrorism
After over twenty years of unpunished terrorist violence against American servicemen and civilians that culminated in a September 11th attack on the Pentagon and World Trade Center more destructive than Pearl Harbor, the Bush administration has declared a world war...
Scholars Overturn Case for Thomas Jefferson’s Relationship with Slave Sally Hemings
In April 2001, a "blue ribbon" commission of highly accomplished and nationally recognized scholars reported its findings after a year-long investigation of the evidence for a sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his house slave, Sally Hemings. The...
Books: Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
It should be obvious after reading Leftism Revisited that no party or system is ever 100 percent Left or Right. It’s a question of what predominates, and where we are headed.
Pardon Michael Milkin: Victim of The Crime of Success
President Clinton should pardon Michael Milken, said Yaron Brook, the executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute."It would be an act of justice--one of the few of the Clinton administration--if Clinton pardoned the man truly responsible for the economic boom of the...
Books: Stalin’s Apologist
By John Chamberlain Stalin’s Apologist is an apt title for S. J. Taylor’s absorbing story of Walter Duranty (Oxford University Press, 404 pages, $24.95 cloth), But whether Taylor’s subtitle of Walter Duranty, the New York Times’s Man in Moscow holds up in all its...
Slavery Compensation Itself Rests on Racism
The suit filed against the U.S. government and big corporations demanding "compensation" for the descendents of slaves is grotesque and should be dismissed without a hearing, said an Ayn Rand Institute Fellow. "Slavery was evil, but America atoned for it during the...
More Guns, Less Crime?
In response to the tragic shootings at Columbine High School and the Los Angeles JCC, the relation of gun availability to violent crime has been furiously debated in the media. One highly visible scholar in the media debate is economist and social scientist, John...
Global Economic Freedom Continues to Gain Survey Shows
More countries expanded economic freedom during the past year than curtailed it, The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal report in their annual "Index of Economic Freedom." The survey showed 70 of the 155 countries rated granted their citizens more...
The Perils of Gun Ownership?
1. Ted Kennedy, Rosie O'Donnell, Charles Schumer, and Barbara Boxer strongly denounce private gun ownership. However, their bodyguards carry:A. Toy guns with trigger locks B. A tape recorded message that says "Boo!" C. CandyD. Slingshots E. Very heavy purses2. You and...
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