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.”
This Thanksgiving, I give thanks for something our forebears gave us: property rights.
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.
Producers are forced to trade on terms Trump dictates rather than terms of their own choosing.
Any element of self-sacrifice in war is a betrayal of our soldiers and the American freedom they fight for.
By the “benevolent nature of capitalism,” I mean the fact that it promotes human life and well-being and does so for everyone.
New York’s future does not lie in further centralization or state control. Its vitality has always derived from individual freedom, entrepreneurial energy, and the rule of law. The Big Apple became great because it allowed people to build, innovate, and prosper—not because government directed them.
Trade policy, with all its consequences, belongs within the limits Congress established, not at the discretion of one officeholder.
