POLITICS

President Clinton wants, in his final months in office, to strike a major arms control deal with Russia, including a new ABM Treaty that would limit the United States' ability to defend itself against ballistic missile attack.White House officials have openly stated...

Last month, the formulators of the Nikkei 225 attempted to update the index in order to reflect the growth of the high-tech sector in the Japanese economy. While editors at the Nihon Keizai newspaper were operating on the belief that the index had become increasingly...

Many people understand that capitalism is a practical means of creating wealth, but few would argue that capitalism is moral.

For the sixth year in a row, Hong Kong has been named the world's freest economy in the Heritage Foundation's annual "Index of Economic Freedom." One of the reasons for this is its low taxes, and what the Hong Kong government boasts on its web site is a "simple and...

CM: Another question for you Dr Andrew Bernstein. Just as when a great artist portrays a simple piece of fruit in a distinctive, compelling way - so that after we've seen his painting we never look at fruit or color or texture in the same way - I wonder whether...

"The essence of heroism is an unbreached and unbreachable allegiance to the good in the face of any possible form of opposition"--Dr Andrew Bernstein Prodos for Capitalism Magazine: What do these people have in common? Galileo, Thomas Jefferson, Cyrano de Bergerac,...

After the NASDAQ Composite Index slid 33% from March 27th to its dramatic one-day decline on April 14th, most people weren't sure what had happened - or why it happened. The financial press was in an uproar trying to make sense of everything, and even now, dozens of...

Smoking a cigarette was symbolic to Miss Rand. As one character in Atlas Shrugged said, "I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a...

...The kidnapping of Elian, of course, had nothing to do with Elian's welfare. The motive of the raid was obviously an attempt by Reno to short-circuit Elian's bid for asylum and to railroad him back to Cuba before he could even have a hearing. She was counting on the...

Cuban parents have been so desperate to save their children that more than 14,000 of them have been smuggled off the island unaccompanied by their parents. To quote from an Amicus brief on the Gonzalez case submitted by the Association for Objective Law: "Cuba is a...

On July 4, 1776 America's Founding Fathers identified the fundamental moral principle on which our country was based. This principle was that every individual possessed the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The Founding Fathers also...

Thousands of Americans were holding demonstrations on Wednesday, May 10th, 2000 outside the Federal Buildings of major American cities. The goal of these demonstrations was to make Americans aware that the moral thing to do is the American thing to do: protect Elián's...