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
The next time someone receives an award as an outstanding teacher, take a close look at the reasons given for selecting that particular person. Seldom is it because his or her students did higher quality work in math or spoke better English or in fact had any tangible...
This is the riveting story of a company that dared to develop a revolutionary method of steel-production, which the rest of the industry had dismissed as too risky.
It is the radical thesis of this extraordinary book that rationality is under assault by the academic community.
This book is an uncompromising argument for freedom in the realm of banking.
C. Bradley Thompson is the Chairman of the Department of History and Political Science at Ashland University in Ohio. He received his Ph.D at Brown University. He has also been a visiting fellow at Harvard University, a John Adams Fellow at the University of London,...
The radical nature of this book is fully captured by its title. For it is Gunderson's theme that wealth is created—not stolen, exploited or simply stumbled upon. He argues that creative thinking is what underlies the act of creating wealth. To defend this thesis, the...
Why our disintegrating culture is turning out so many people who are so much less than men can be.
Economic Policy is a marvelous introduction to economics—and to one of the greatest economists of all time.
The theme of Schoeck’s book is that envy is man’s most destructive emotion, and that societies which enshrine envy remain backward and undeveloped.
The author, a former investigative reporter, shows that the agency has virtually unlimited authority to invade your privacy, seize your wealth, ruin your reputation and generally make your life miserable.
This illuminating new study of the history of American industry from 1840 to 1920 identifies two opposite types of businessmen.
Blacks are too often unwilling to accept individual responsibility for their lives and to exert individual initiative to create opportunities for success.
"It's not ethically sound to make a profit off educating students in a school that serves the public, which a charter school is, using funds from public coffers." That's not a sentence from Mao's Little Red Book. It's from Philip Parr, Chief of Staff of the Pittsburgh...
Hazlitt’s book remains the supreme debunker of the Keynesian system.
For many of the politically correct today, it is enough to dismiss George Washington because he was a dead white male.
Although the Founding Fathers were committed to protecting the individual’s property rights as well as his political/ intellectual rights, the Supreme Court since the 1930s has consistently failed to protect the former.
To love a person is selfish because it means that you value that particular person, that he or she makes your life better, that he or she is an intense source of joy–to you.
These essays comprise a Mises “candy sampler,” to complement the more enduring intellectual banquet he offers in his treatises.
Despite its possibly misleading title, Trashing the Planet is a tightly argued, well-written antidote to environmentalist disinformation, and a defense of reason, technology and, indirectly, capitalism.
Every page of this book stands as a decisive refutation of the “Club of Rome” and “Limits to Growth” schools of Malthusian economics.
Scott Gardner made the mistake of becoming a landlord in New York City without realizing the inhuman treatment he would receive by the rent control bureaucracy.
Several columnists, most notably David Limbaugh and Kathleen Parker, commented on some of its lunacy. Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, photographer Tom Franklin of The Record newspaper in Bergen County, N.J., captured the images of New York City...
This book is must reading for anyone who wants in-depth knowledge of how the PLO operates and what its sources of support—material and moral—are.
Murray’s book shows how the rise of the welfare state over the past few decades has impoverished the lives of the very people it purports to help.
How do you get young Middle Eastern men to fly a jet full of Americans into the side of a skyscraper?
Simon rejects the view that economic production is depleting the earth of natural resources. He argues that the “Ultimate resource” is human inventiveness— and that this asset is never exhausted.
What should we remember on Martin Luther King Day? In his “I Have a Dream” speech Dr. King said: “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Bias by Bernard Goldberg meticulously documents what everyone outside the media and the Left establishment knows - that news coverage has a left-wing bias. Even more, this book makes clear the critical role the news media play in our lives, and the life-threatening...
In spite of minor flaws, Kimball reveals the monstrous Irrationality of those who shape academia today.
The bribes Gould supposedly handed out to the government officials for special favors were in fact paid to legislators to repeal government controls, such as the ‘laws that fixed the rates his railroads could charge.
This anthology is basically flawed.
What Illiberal Education describes—though the author does not put it this way—is the official end of individualism on the American campus.