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
“I have often wondered at the smugness with which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind — yet what is it they expect to depend on when they lie on an operating table under my hands?”
The weakening of racial preferences in college admissions can be beneficial if it can focus our attention on the causes of the huge gap in academic achievement between blacks and whites and Asians.
Legalizing pot, by itself, won’t change a thing. Until or unless we understand why marijuana should be legal, it’s futile to support its legalization.
The problem with our big, expansive federal government which denies individual rights every day is that it ultimately leads to disputes of this kind.
Should we be ruled by what are seen as good ideas or by what’s permissible by the U.S. Constitution?
Government mostly hinders us, and then brags that it is waiting to take charge when we fail.
“Poverty” is in the eye of the statisticians — more specifically, the government statisticians who define what constitutes “poverty,” and who are unlikely to define it in ways that might jeopardize the massive welfare state that they are part of.
Nations that disarm increasing the chances of being attacked by nations that do not disarm.
Much as many liberals like to put guilt trips on other people, they seldom seek out, much less acknowledge and take responsibility for, the bad consequences of their own actions.
Seeing as the Obama administration is concerned about punishment disproportionality, should black convicts be released so that only 13 percent of incarcerated murderers are black?
The “war on women” political slogan is in fact a war against common sense.
If you put $1,000 in your piggy bank in 1960 and took it out to spend in 2000, you would discover that your money had, over time, lost 80 percent of its value.
Those unfamiliar with political rhetoric may not know that “special interests” mean people who support your opponents.
“What the tax code is doing is trying to choose our values for us,” complains Yaron Brook from the Ayn Rand Institute.
Individualism must be the basis for the freedom to practice our values–religious or otherwise.
The fundamental elements of capitalism—the recognition of individual rights to life, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness and private ownership of property—are a crucial requirement of wealth creation.
Business schools do not do a good job of educating their students about capitalism.
Should we insist upon equal treatment of people by race and sex or tolerate differences in treatment?
Gambling is often a symptom rather than a cause.
Critics have seen Obama’s repeated sacrifices of American national interests as deliberate.
Most of Barack Obama’s foreign policy decisions since becoming president are consistent with this mindset. He has acted repeatedly as a citizen of the world, even though he was elected to be President of the United States.
Genetically modified foods are a tremendous human achievement and value.
Twenty-two million government workers delay the Keystone XL oil pipeline, raid poker games, force us to put ethanol in cars, prohibit drugs and medical devices that might make our lives better, take about half our money, and jail more citizens than even China and Russia do.
The argument for limiting our freedom—and for objecting capitalism, a system of freedom—is based on a dismal view of human beings.
Republicans have failed to explain why the minimum wage laws that Democrats support are counterproductive for blacks.
Some statements and arguments are so asinine that you’d have to be an academic or a leftist to take them seriously.
If cutting and taxing are off the table, we can expect borrowing and printing.
For every new regulation bureaucrats pass, they must repeal five old ones.
Vladimir Putin’s actions are detestable and the result of American weakness–intellectual weakness.
“The Triple Package” is a book that tells us much that we all need to know about America — especially if we want to keep the welfare state ideology from destroying the American Dream.
It’s fine if dance and art groups are mostly women, but if athletic teams are too male, lawsuits follow.
The best thing America could do for the Ukraine, or any other victim of totalitarian repression, is to make the world safe for freedom, private property and individual rights.
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