by George Reisman | Jan 11, 1997 | Environment
Environmentalism regards wild speculation as the equivalent of scientific proof, and the “environment”–from California condors and spotted owls to rock formations and jungles–as intrinsically valuable and fully on a par with the value of human life.
by Walter Williams | Jan 1, 1997 | POLITICS
Soon I’ll write to Virginia’s Governor George Allen demanding that he keeps the faith with his predecessors who, in 1788, ratified the Constitution and brought Virginia into the Union. Let’s do some thinking out loud about this letter just to make...
by Walter Williams | Dec 30, 1996 | POLITICS
How about a mini-Williams autobiography? From exceedingly humble beginnings, I am now in the top one percent of income-earners. How did that come about? Did someone see me walking around North Philadelphia and say, “Williams, I’m going to make you well...
by Richard M Salsman | Nov 24, 1996 | Healthcare
One vital fact was omitted in the news accounts about the success of Boris Yeltsin’s recent heart surgery: the failure of socialized medicine. And this fact underscores the question of whether America’s health-care policies are courting a similar failure....
by Walter Williams | Oct 29, 1996 | POLITICS
Making our value premises explicit and clear can help untangle contentious public policy issues, or at least let us know where people stand. Let’s state my personal value premise. I cherish private property rights. “Okay,” you say, “but what...
by The Association for Objective Law | Oct 12, 1996 | LAW
TAFOL President Michael J. Mazzone emerged victorious as both a Plaintiff and a participating lawyer recently when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dealt a potentially fatal setback to programs that siphon money from lawyers’ bank accounts to fund liberal legal causes.
by Thomas Sowell | Aug 8, 1996 | Education
Maryland must be a very safe state, because it has time to prosecute a mother who is teaching her daughter at home. The little girl of 7 scores above the national average on tests given by the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, which leading colleges across the...
by Leonard Peikoff | Jun 1, 1996 | Middle East & Israel, WORLD
Over the coming months, the Clinton Administration will pressure the Israeli government to moderate its “impractical” stand toward the Arab countries. But the only practical policy in the Middle East rests upon the very opposite of moderation: the courage...
by Ayn Rand | Jun 1, 1996 | Philosophy
The world is a beautiful place and worth fighting for. But not without Freedom.
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