Economic Policy is a marvelous introduction to economics—and to one of the greatest economists of all time.
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
Books: Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior By Helmut Schoeck
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.
A Law Onto Itself: The IRS and the Abuse of Power by David Burnham
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.
The Myth of The Robber Barons by Burton W. Folsom, Jr.
This illuminating new study of the history of American industry from 1840 to 1920 identifies two opposite types of businessmen.
The Content of Our Character by Shelby Steele
Blacks are too often unwilling to accept individual responsibility for their lives and to exert individual initiative to create opportunities for success.
For-Profit Schools: Profit’s not a Four-Letter Word
“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...
Books: The Failure of The “New Economics” An Analysis of the Keynesian Fallacies by Henry Hazlitt
Hazlitt’s book remains the supreme debunker of the Keynesian system.
George Washington’s Birthday
For many of the politically correct today, it is enough to dismiss George Washington because he was a dead white male.
Economic Liberties And The Constitution By Bernard H. Siegan
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.
Celebrate Valentine’s Day By Understanding the True Meaning of Love
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.
Economic Freedom And Interventionism By Ludwig von Mises
These essays comprise a Mises “candy sampler,” to complement the more enduring intellectual banquet he offers in his treatises.
Trashing the Planet: How Science can Help Us Deal with Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone and Nuclear Waste (Among Other Things) by Dixy Lee Ray, with Lou Guzzo
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.
The Doomsday Myth by Charles Maurice and Charles Smithson
Every page of this book stands as a decisive refutation of the “Club of Rome” and “Limits to Growth” schools of Malthusian economics.
Live Rent-Free For Life by Scott Gardner
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.
Politically Correct Art
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...
Inside The PLO By Neil Livingstone and David Halevy
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.
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 by Charles Murray
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.
Allah Attacks Aristotle: The Philosophical Roots of 9-11
How do you get young Middle Eastern men to fly a jet full of Americans into the side of a skyscraper?
The Ultimate Resource By Julian Simon
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 We Should Remember on Martin Luther King Day
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.”
Books: Tenured Radicals – How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education by Roger Kimball
In spite of minor flaws, Kimball reveals the monstrous Irrationality of those who shape academia today.
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
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...
Books: The Life and Legend of Jay Gould by Maury Klein
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.
Books: The Market Economy A Reader, Edited by James Doti and Dwight Lee
This anthology is basically flawed.
Books: Illiberal Education by Dinesh D’Souza
What Illiberal Education describes—though the author does not put it this way—is the official end of individualism on the American campus.
Books: Notes and Recollections By Ludwig Von Mises
This is an intellectual autobiography of Mises, written near the half-way point of his productive years (1940).
Books: James Madison The Founding Father by Robert A. Rutland
This is a fresh, extremely thoughtful biography of the Founding Father whom Thomas Jefferson called “the greatest man in the world.”
Philosophy and Journalism: Intrinsicism in Reporting
The smartertimes.com [December 20, 2001] makes an interesting point which bears philosophical analysis. Smartertimes.com catches the New York Times labeling conservative groups, such as The Heritage Foundation, as being conservative, while liberal groups, such as...
How Best to Improve School Productivity? School Choice!
Although it’s only seven years since Caroline Minter Hoxby received her Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the brilliance of her subsequent research at Harvard University into the effectiveness and cost of public education has...
The Virtue of Individualism
Success and happiness are possible to all of us–regardless of our raw intelligence, race, sex, or background; we must simply be self-interested, not selfless. We must follow our dreams and our goals with our own thought and effort.
University Professors vs. America
Many simply shake their heads in confusion and disbelief at reports of peace rallies on college campuses from coast to coast. At such an unprecedented time of pro-American sentiments, and in light of the magnitude of horror of September 11, it seems almost impossible...
Interview: The Well Trained Mind and Homeschooling
When her daughter Susan started kindergarten in Virginia in 1972, Jessie Wise quickly heard complaints from Susan’s teacher that the child would become a social misfit because she wanted to read during free time instead of playing. This was not good news for...
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