It is amazing how many people who are “pro-choice” when it comes to abortion are against choice when it comes to education. Indeed, that is the official position of the Democratic Party. Despite Al Gore’s rhetoric at the Democrats’ convention...
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The “Feel-Sorry-For-Me” Olympics
Throughout the Olympics, athletes from around the world who had worked their entire lives to reach the pinnacle of their abilities gave many great performances. Let us remember, celebrate, and reward them for their virtues and not for their suffering.
One Solution for Education’s Woes: Home Schooling
To counteract the damage caused by Progressive Education, Woiceshyn put together a rigorous program of core academic subjects designed to motivate learning, build a solid foundation of essential knowledge and basic skills, and train logical thinking.
Australia’s “Original Sin”: Why Prime Minister Howard Should Not Apologize to the Aborigines
The 2000 Olympics opened last Friday (15.Sept.00) in a “splendidly diverse and inclusive” (New York Times, editorial, 17.Sept.00) portrayal of Australia. The symbol of the aboriginal athlete Cathy Freeman carrying the Olympic flame in its final stage...
My Home-School Experience Demonstrates the Benefit of a Rational Approach to Education
It was painful to watch. Our bright 9-year-old son was rapidly losing his love of learning. Dissatisfied with his private school, the best we could find, I decided to postpone my second career as a writer and home-school him–a choice many Americans are forced to...
Johnny Can’t Think But He’s a Great Guesser
“Unable to deal with words or with numbers — having no means of knowing, but only of guessing — the child loses confidence in his mind.”
Discovery, Capitalism and Distributive Justice by Israel M. Kirzner
The heart of Professor Kirzner’s argument is that every discovery of a new opportunity is the appropriation of that which had not existed before a human mind had seen the potential in that object. And, hence, the profit earned by bringing that opportunity into existen…
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
When I began to write this review, I hemmed and hawed about where to begin. Flipping through the meaty 764 pages, I was amused to note that the authors began the section entitled, “Using The Well-Trained Mind Without Losing Your Own” with the upfront...
America’s Heritage of Economic Liberty
For the Founding Fathers, economic liberty was inseparable from the case for political freedom.
Self-Sacrifice Not Selfishness Caused the Holocaust
A genocide like the Holocaust will happen again unless the world learns the root cause of the Nazis’ evil — self-sacrifice.
Evolution and Public Schools
Under pressure from the religious right, the Illinois Board of Education has quietly eliminated the word “evolution” from state school standards. Liberals complain that this violates the separation between church state. But they’re getting exactly...
Happy Birthday Ayn Rand!
With the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand’s position in history — both as novelist and philosopher — was established.
Elian Gonzalez, Communist Cuba, and “Father’s Rights”: An Interview with Psychologist Edwin Locke
Prodos for Capitalism Magazine: You have been very busy lately talking about Elián Gonzalez and the argument of whether to keep him in America or to return him to Cuba. You’ve been talking to a lot of the media on this issue. I’m pleased to see that the...
Who should have legal custody of Elian Gonzalez?
Elián’s mother died trying to escape Cuba with her son.
The Life of Six Year Old Elian Gonzalez Is In President Clinton’s Hands
Elián Gonzales, a 6-year-old Cuban boy, found Thanksgiving Day clinging to an inner tube off the coast of Florida, is about to be deported back to Communist Cuba on January 14, 2000, if the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has its way. It was...
U.S. Schools Have Abandoned Knowledge for Emotionalism
Bernstein blames John Dewey and his philosophy of Progressive Education for the decline in educational standards.
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
Who was John D. Rockefeller? Chernow shows that he was, above all else, a man who held fast to certain core values throughout his life.
Best Novel of the 20th Century: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged or James Joyce’s Ulysses?
What is the best English-language novel of the 20th century? One of these novels is a stylistic masterpiece, and the other is trash. The fighting is over which is which.
Commentary: How Christianity Created Capitalism
Michael Novak’s “How Christianity Created Capitalism,” (The Wall Street Journal, December 23, 1999) makes interesting fiction reading, but it totally ignores all the essential issues. The essential elements of religion are: supernaturalism (God...
Bill Gates and Altruism
Altruism survives, in part, on its undeserved reputation as a “kind, benevolent” morality. Those who believe this would be surprised at the critical response to Bill Gates’ latest charitable offering, a $1 billion scholarship fund. It is a model of...
The Christopher Columbus Controversy: Western Civilization vs. Primitivism
We must recognize that everyone is a sovereign entity, with the power of choice and independent judgment. That is the ultimate value of Western civilization, and it should be proudly proclaimed.
Brothers in Ideas: The Buddhist Dalai Lama and the Internet Tax Hoaxer
A frequent visitor to the United States, the Dalai Lama’s popularity increases with every trip. Forty thousand people heard him speak in Central Park recently, up from five thousand in 1991, and five thousand people from around the country are expected each day...
Labor Day: Time to Celebrate Man’s Mind
What we should celebrate is not sweat and toil, but the power of man’s mind to reason, invent and create.
What Young People Really Need: Not Volunteerism but Happiness and Heroes
Is volunteerism actually good? Is service in slums and nursing homes a proper moral ideal that will galvanize the young, adding value and significance to their lives?
Modern Education Kills
Andy had “mastered” the core principles of modern education too well.
Feminism and The World Cup
Women’s soccer enthusiasts screamed foul when, during the 1996 Olympics, NBC gave only scant attention to the victorious women’s soccer team.
Violence in American Schools: An Interview with Dr. Michael Hurd
Capitalism Magazine: Many people, sociologists and psychologists among them, blame the rash of shootings by kids in schools on the violence depicted in video games, movies, and TV and on the prevalence of guns in America. What do you think is the most fundamental...
Our Killing Schools – Public Schools: Intellectual and Moral Wastelands that Destroy America’s Youth
The crisis in our schools is at heart a philosophical issue.
Preserving America: George Soros versus Thomas Jefferson
George Soros is not just wrong about the issue of certainty and dictatorship; his claim is the opposite of the truth. By renouncing reason and certainty, Soros is not barring the door to dictators but putting out a welcome mat for them.
Morality Is Missing Key in Hollywood Violence Debate
Wolski said that the lawmakers leading the assault against Hollywood are only offering up their own spiritual poverty when they attack all forms of violence on the screen.
Emotionalism Explains Mindless Violence at Colorado High School
With guns and homemade bombs, two students executed a well-planned assault on fellow students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 15 including themselves and one teacher) and injuring many others. Eric Harris (18) and Dylan Klebold (17),...
What is Wrong with Public Schools?
The physical and mind crippling hazards of government schools are only manifestations of a deeper problem.
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