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
Ayn Rand described Thanksgiving as “a typically American holiday . . . its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.”
In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism.
Selling “The Big Lies” helps Hollywood to keep alive the fantasy that the Left is the victim rather than the perpetrator of injustice.
Hazlitt begins Economics in One Lesson by pointing out that economics is plagued by the attempt of various interest groups to use the government for privileges and favors for themselves at the expense of others in society.
Underlying the political collectivism of the anti-Columbus crowd is a racist view of human nature.
How money is created, how governments exploit the process to siphon your wealth, and what you must do to prosper in an era of financial repression.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk is not your garden-variety spasm of partisan idiocy or sectarian spite.
. Charlie Kirk was correct when he said, “When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence.” But it is even more accurate to say, as Ayn Rand pointed out, “When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.”
Frederick Douglass unique contribution to American political philosophy is well summarized in the contrast between the mottos he and Garrison used for their newspapers. Instead of Garrison’s call for separation, “no union with slaveholders,” Douglass demanded equality: “All rights for all. ”
Defining words as a form of violence creates a permission structure for actual violence.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were pioneers.
On Labor Day, let us honor the true root of production and wealth: the human mind.
The truth is that the Covid years are the prism through which most everything else playing out in public affairs today can be read. Truth is stranger than fiction, but this fiction works beautifully precisely because it comes so very close to telling the truth in every grim detail.
Capitalism can save us (and the planet) – if we let it.
The so-called “Gilded Age” of “Robber Barrons” is better named as the Inventive Period of Capitalism.
There is no better example of how one can balance America’s strivings and failures than that provided by the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass in his famous July 5, 1852, speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
By Neal McCluskey for Cato The Trump administration is looking for federal spending to cut, which seems pretty urgent given the nation’s nearly $37 trillion debt. The US Department of Education (US ED), which is neither constitutional, competent, nor effective, is...
Why ‘Colorblindness’ on Race Matters More than Ever
Parents must seize control of their children’s education from the “interlocking directorate” that is waging a war against children’s minds.
In a full, hour-long interview, Brook defends the marketplace and the self-interest that drives it. He also carves out the path of self-interest through mountains of big issues: war, poverty, immigration, drugs and children–even how self-interest is important for your love life.
The Nvidia “way” is Tae Kim’s attempt to characterize what makes Nvidia different from other companies. He identifies three components: a strive for excellence, hiring practicesm and generous and widespread stock programs.
American and European intellectuals had been comparing the merits of a hypothetical world based on equality, reason and nature to the world in which they lived — based on habit, custom and superstition. The American Revolution tested their theories in the real world.
With the capacity to print forever, the US could fund its empire, fund its welfare state, fund its gigantic budget, fund its military, and all without bothering with actually doing much of anything beyond sitting behind screens.
In Build, Baby, Build, a graphic novel, Caplan uses Bastiat as a character in the present day to show us “what we’re missing”—what is not seen—when it comes to housing deregulation. I
On his first day as president, Trump signed an executive order to suspend the United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), barring potentially thousands of Christian refugees from entering the United States.
It would not matter whether NPR was liberally biased or conservatively biased. The bottom line is that if politicians (bureaucrats) control the funding of the news, then the news likely will be politicized.
Disney has misread the room for a very long time, and seems implausibly slow to course correct. One might expect market signals would be enough to shock the internal culture of an enterprise. Ideology, however, can be more powerful than even failing profitability statements.
Individualism is the moral code recognizing that a human being is first, foremost, and always an autonomous being, a bodily and spiritual individual, not a nameless, faceless, fungible, easily replicable member of a tribe or collective.
It is refreshing to come across films in which profit-driven business is portrayed as benign and/or that show businessmen as heroes. Although such films are rare, they do exist and are often quite entertaining.
Is Learning Standard “White” English Oppressive for Black Students?
A Complete Unknown is a celebration of Bob Dylan’s songwriting genius.
A new edition of the Intelligent Investor integrates Graham’s classic insights with today’s market realities.
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