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CULTURE
A nation’s culture is the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men, which their fellow-citizens have accepted in whole or in part, and which have influenced the nation’s way of life. Since a culture is a complex battleground of different ideas and influences, to speak of a ‘culture’ is to speak only of the dominant ideas, always allowing for the existence of dissenters and exceptions. — AYN RAND
Why Free-Market Economists and Historians Should Study Karl Marx
Karl Marx’s stubborn political staying power also requires that we grapple with his theory in an intelligent fashion and that we engage him seriously even if we judge his conclusions wanting.
Say’s Law and the Keynesian Revolution: How Macroeconomic Theory Lost Its Way by Steven Kates
Steven Kates refutes Keynes’s caricature of the classical economists. Ultimately it is always goods that are traded for goods. Say’s Law, properly understood, explains both what causes unemployment and how to solve it..
No More Altruism! Rejecting the Ethics of Self-Sacrifice
The first part of this post’s title is a quotation from a student in my business ethics class. She had said that to her teenagers after learning about rational self-interest, or egoism, in the course and reading How to Be Profitable and Moral. More exactly, she had...
The Joker Movie: Making Outcasts Into Monsters
The Joker depicts with a penetrating portrayal by Joaquin Phoenix of the much-maligned, non-college-bred white male, which is why the “social justice” thugs hate this film sight unseen, the various factors that breed one of today’s most persecuted minorities, the American outcast, into monsters.
Literature and the Quest for Meaning by Lisa VanDamme
How classic literature can contribute to the vital quest for meaning.
Capitalism Has Produced the Glorious Emancipation of Women
Camille Paglia is a professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she has been a faculty member since 1984. Paglia describes herself as transgender, but unlike so many other transgender people, she is pro-capitalism and...
Life Lessons From The Death of a Beloved Brother
Kirk, the Best Brother Ever, R.I.P.
Academic Stupidity and Brainwashing
Brainwashing our youngsters is a serious matter. The people responsible for the Department of Education’s proposal ought to be summarily fired.
Racist Exam Questions or Educational Fraud in Baltimore
I’m wondering when the black community will demand an end to an educational environment that condemns so many youngsters to mediocrity.
School Bureaucrats Against Making Schools Better
Education bureaucrats love working in a monopoly where they are basically guaranteed jobs.
The Shameful Blackout of Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams
The exclusion of people like Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams explains why there’s no serious discussion in the black community about government dependency; school choice; the damage done by high taxes, excessive regulation and laws like minimum wage; and why blacks should rethink their allegiance to the Democratic Party.
Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action: Marking 70 Years of Continuing Relevance
Mises’s brilliant treatise continues to be read and taken seriously as a cornerstone for understanding the nature of the free society and the workings of the market economy.
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Segregation was a result of “open and explicit government-sponsored” policies.
The Last Emperor
Scott Holleran on Bertolucci’s muted, mythological, China-themed masterpiece.
Yaron Brook on The Ben Shapiro Show
Yaron Brook speaks on the Ben Shapiro Show on why capitalism cannot be justified on altruistic grounds, but only by rational egoism.
Lighthouses Were Private Until Government Took Them Over
There was nothing inherent to the lighthouse that made it a public good. It became a public good because government regulation made it so.
Correcting The “1619 Project”: America is Not A Democracy
In addition to not understanding our Constitution, Hannah-Jones’ article, like in most discussions of black history, fails to acknowledge that black Americans have made the greatest gains, over some of the highest hurdles in the shortest span of time than any other racial group in mankind’s history.
America Was Made Poorer Because Of Slavery
America was not made richer from slavery. America was made poorer by slavery.
What Will They Learn at College?
Spending four or more years in a politically correct college and accumulating tens of thousands of dollars in debt is not the only road to a successful life.
How Capitalist-Abolitionists Fought Slavery
Interest in the history of American capitalism is on the rise, although curiously this line of study is being advanced for anticapitalistic ideological reasons.
How Universities Misuse Donor Dollars
As long as universities continue to misrepresent how they use philanthropic gifts, philanthropists will remain wary of the high potential for misuse that accompanies large donations.
The Pinochet Slur Against Free Market Scholars: Academic Repetition of a Lie
In each and every case, the aforementioned authors carelessly repeat a claim that they want to believe and that affirms their political priors. No effort is made to check sources or investigate whether the claim itself is reputable.
The Capitalist Achievement and Music: How The Free Market Helps Us Live Like Kings
The capitalist achievement is progressive downward diffusion of things the rich and privileged take for granted that so many others couldn’t dream of.
The Mythology Behind The Dishonest “New History of Capitalism” Slavery Smear
Edward Baptist, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and others of the “New History of Capitalism” demonstrate their ignorance in their dishonest attempts to associate American capitalism with slavery.
The Real Spirit of the Declaration of Independence
What is America, and what does it represent?
Reparations: Free Blacks and “Native Americans” Owned Slaves
A staggering 28 percent of free blacks in the Crescent City owned slaves.
Federal Money Incentivizes Colleges to Increase Tuition
What is the price tag for “free” college and the elimination of college debt?
Black Education Decline
What has been allowed to happen to cripple black academic excellence?
Philosopher Robert Mayhew on Ayn Rand’s Novel: We the Living
We the Living is not about Soviet Russia in 1925–its a novel about any dictatorship, anywhere, and hopefully it will prevent one in the United States.
Free Speech on Campus: Colleges Committed to Ideological Diversity
When you send your youngster off to college, you might not mind that they will have to walk on eggshells, respect taboos, snitch on fellow students for politically incorrect jokes and learn to use ad hominem arguments as a means to attack ideas they find...
The Battle Over America: Individual Freedom Versus Democratic Statism
The idea that there was a time in American history when many more matters of daily life were considered the domain of personal decision-making and voluntary collaborative community effort has mostly been erased from people’s memory. We live in a time when an...