The good name of “capitalism” has to be recaptured and restored, just as the good name and concept of “liberalism,” rightly understood, should be returned to the advocates of individual liberty and free enterprise.
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
Fear of Aging
Q: I’m terribly afraid of aging. I’m only in my forties, but I think about it a lot. Is there anything you can do to help? A: You’re aging — we’re all aging — from the minute we’re born. Ruminating about something over which...
Karl Marx’s Communist Theory of the “Injustice” of Capitalism
Nothing that Lenin or Stalin implemented in Soviet Russia or Mao in China, for example, was not called for or implied in Marx’s own writings and arguments.
How Stalin Used Hitler To Start World War II
It is estimated that as many as 64 million innocent men, women and children were killed in the Soviet Union in the name of building the socialist workers’ paradise.”
Fighting Over Transgender Bathrooms While America Burns
Bathrooms are among the most private of private property. We don’t need government determining the make-up or use of bathrooms.
A Superior Vision
The immorality associated with violation of the principle of self-ownership lies at the root of problems that could lead to our doom as a great nation.
Educational Socialism versus the Free Market for Education
What is needed is a radical change, and in my opinion, this means the denationalization, the full and complete privatization of schooling from kindergarten through graduate education.
Campus Lunacy, Part II
On the hypocrisy behind the student renaming craze.
Attacking The American Founding Fathers
The teaching establishment, at our public schools and colleges, is being used to undermine American values.
Does Acting Morally Cost You?
Whether you believe that acting morally costs or pays depends on your view of morality.
College Campus Lunacy
Nothing opens the closed minds of administrators better than the sounds of pocketbooks snapping shut.
Individualism and Capitalism vs. Marxian Gender and Race Conflict: Trigger Words and College Safe Spaces
In our post-Soviet era, the Marxian framework and mind games have been transformed into issues concerning “gender” and “race” as well as “social class.”
Andrew Bernstein: Real Life Heroes
To choose a hero one has to look at people who benefit human life, their integrity, moral character and their commitment to and ideal.
A Philosopher’s Package Deal To Misrepresent Selfishness
To make selfishness, or self-interest, unpalatable and to promote altruism instead, the majority of philosophers misrepresent self-interest as a package-deal.
American Progressives are the Intellectual Grand Children of German Imperial Chancellor Bismarck
American “progressives” portray themselves as “forward-looking,” advocates of a higher and better freedom than the traditional American conception of liberty as freedom from government coercion and control. In fact, they are the intellectual great-grandchildren of the “reactionary” nineteenth century Imperial German “Iron Chancellor,” Otto von Bismarck.
Valentine’s Day Reflections
Valentine’s Day is a great way to celebrate a love you already have. But if it’s a way to make up for your lack of appreciating your love the rest of the year, you better do some thinking.
How Lithuania Helped Take Down The Soviet Union
The Lithuanians had been at the vanguard in the movement for freedom in the Soviet Union. They had elected a non-communist government in free elections, had declared their national independence from Soviet rule, and strongly affirmed their intention of reversing a half-century of socialist central planning through privatization and free market reforms.
Isn’t It Strange?
Isn’t it strange that after a bombing, everyone blames the bomber, but after a shooting, the problem is the gun?
Socialism as the Ideology of Death and Destruction
The attempt to establish a comprehensive socialist system in many parts of the world over the last one hundred years has been one of the cruelest and most brutal episodes in human history.
American Education Insanity
Today, expenditures per pupil in the United States exceed those of nearly every other country in the world.
Racism and the Oscars
The attempt to smear winners of this year’s nominations for Academy Awards with “racism” is actually racism itself.
Do Corporate Donors Threaten Academic Freedom?
The real untold story is that some college professors want to limit intellectual diversity, deny competition in the realm of ideas, and prohibit students from learning certain ideas.
Complicating the Obvious
Making simple things complicated.
The Anti-Capitalist Appeal of Altruism and The Pro-Capitalism Alternative
How is it possible that business students—some of them with significant business experience—have never heard of the moral code of rational egoism?
My New Year’s Wish: More Reason, Capitalism and Freedom
While the use of reason is the fundamental requirement of business success, freedom—protected by individual rights—is its social requirement.
2015: A Great Time To Be Alive
Where there is rule of law and individual freedom, humanity is better off.
Remembering 2015: The Year of The Big Lie
Lying, by itself, is obviously not new. What is new is the growing acceptance of lying as “no big deal” by smug sophisticates, so long as these are lies that advance their political causes
How Education “Diversity” Hustlers Hurt Blacks for Their Own Benefit
Black people cannot afford to have our youngsters turned into failures in order to support the agendas of diversity race hustlers and to lessen the guilt of white liberals.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a clever and pleasant diversion about having faith that the good is possible.
Squandered Resources on College Education
What goes on at many colleges adds to the argument that college for many is a waste of resources.
Thomas Sowell’s Christmas Gift Recommendations
Thought-provoking books on current events or on history.
Corporate Donations Increase Academic Freedom and Diversity in American Colleges
The real untold story is that some college professors want to limit intellectual diversity, deny competition in the realm of ideas, and prohibit students from learning certain ideas.
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