The basic and crucial political issue of our age is: capitalism versus socialism, or freedom versus statism. For decades, this issue has been silenced, suppressed, evaded, and hidden under the foggy, undefined rubber-terms of “conservatism” and “liberalism” which had lost their original meaning and could be stretched to mean all things to all men. – AYN RAND
Although the incoming Trump administration says it will cut taxes, reduce regulations, and slash wasteful government spending—all of which are good things—it also intends to enact an industrial policy to bolster US manufacturing, using interventionist tools such as tariffs, subsidies, Buy American rules, and similar commands—all of which are bad things and inherently anti-liberty.
Besides abandoning DEI programs, what should companies do then if they want to achieve long-term success?
Critics who applaud violence against executives like Brian Thompson misunderstand how the healthcare system operates — and seem content to wallow in those adolescent misapprehensions.
Are elections capable of delivering real results?
President George Washington was right then, and he is right now. Let’s end NATO expansion and bring the boys back home.
Argentina’s budget cuts have generated eye-popping results: lower inflation, higher wages, and the nation’s first budget surplus in 12 years.
Privatization of the Veterans Health Administration would improve health care for veterans and nonveterans alike.
“Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” –Jimmy Carter, 2005
Harris is the most anti-American Progressive that has ever gained the nomination of a major political party in American history.
The world’s leading expert on Ayn Rand’s philosophy Objectivism, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute, Leonard Peikoff, speaks with James Valliant about Donald Trump and why he is voting against anti-American Progressive Democrat Kamala Harris.
The people of Georgia, among the most wonderful in the world, are being let down by their own country’s appeasement of Russia.
A tax on unrealized capital gains constitutes an end-run on rights of private property and subverts fundamental market principles by taxing assets not yet sold or converted into income.
By decentralizing disaster relief, we can build a system that is more effective and more in line with the principles of federalism and limited government — principles that have been proven to lead to greater prosperity for all.
The moral code capitalism rests on is rational egoism, first identified by Aristotle and further developed by others, most extensively by Ayn Rand.
Commentators focused on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) letter claim that ICE did not detain 13,099 migrants convicted of homicide, tended to misunderstand the data.
The Republicans need to show that (1) the Democrats, not businessmen, are responsible for rising prices and that (2) what is needed to end rising prices is not price controls but the gold standard.
The idea that Taylor Swift, who on Tuesday endorsed Kamala Harris for president, should purge from her life people, like Brittany Mahomes, who don’t share her political beliefs is not a healthy or enlightened one.
Any politician who supports the “net zero” agenda is working to make gasoline prices much higher.
The failure to distinguish between economic power and political power leads people to believe that large corporations have grown through coercion.
The “New Right” faction argues for increased government intervention in the economy, protectionist measures, and the strengthening of monopoly labor unions.
Typhoid was ultimately conquered not by jails but by sanitation, hygiene, and antibiotics.
Conti, Frank, and Cutler shatter the common myths that the United States has “largely unregulated prices” for medical care or is “one of the only developed countries where health care is left mostly to the free market.”
This politicization of personal choice is the essence of statism. In “The Roots of War,” Ayn Rand explained statism’s results: “The degree of statism in a country’s political system, is the degree to which it breaks up the country into rival gangs and sets men against one another.”
Former president Donald Trump is pitching himself to voters as the antidote to the Biden administration’s inflationary policies. That will require ditching the interventionism his running mate has previously championed.
Russia and other tyrannies can take hostages whenever they choose to and use them as bargaining chips.
O&G mergers are good for America because they increase domestic production, which makes oil cheaper and increases our national security. Government should get out of the way immediately.
Virtually all discussion of health care policy today avoids explicit reference to underlying principles.
Declining reimbursement rates, on top of losses in purchasing power, result in reduced access to care, as some physicians have limited the number of Medicare patients they accept or have stopped accepting new Medicare patients altogether.
The idea that any one candidate is a threat to democracy is ridiculous, and anyone making such claims was never taught about our Constitution and the checks and balances within our three co-equal branches of government.
If Trump’s goal is simply to eliminate the federal income tax, then he should advocate for doing that and only that.
There is nothing in the Constitution about a vast army of bureaucrats who rule behind the scenes that is in no way reachable or manageable by elected representatives.
Mr. Trump isn’t the only victim of this ill-advised gag order. It violates your First Amendment rights and mine as well.