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The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism

Individualism seemed to have few accomplishments and fewer adherents, back when I first encountered it, some forty-five years ago...

Sep 8, 2010
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8 Mins
Interview with Larry Elder

A lot of my listeners will often call up and say, “I preferred you when you were a Libertarian.” I always tell them I never was a....

Sep 8, 2010
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Robert L. Jones
10 Mins
How Individualist is Human Nature?

You’re right to point out the contrast I make between capitalism and morality.” So said New York Times columnist John Tierney in response...

Sep 8, 2010
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8 Mins
Film Review: There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Martin Stringer, Kevin J. O’Connor, Jacob Stringer, Matthew Braden Stringer, Ciar

Sep 8, 2010
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Robert L. Jones
5 Mins
Two Cheers for John Tierney

February 2002 -- Why is the New York Times better on Tuesdays and Fridays than it is on any other day? Because on those days the paper's....

Sep 7, 2010
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5 Mins
Hollywood Applauds Terrorism

One would think that liberal screenwriters could concoct a fantasy about some guy pushed by capitalist oppression into open revolt, without

Sep 7, 2010
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Edouard Hudgins
7 Mins
Tower Cranes: An Appreciation

Tower cranes are ubiquitous here in Washington, D.C. They often dominate the skyline, especially on the eastern side of town where the arc

Sep 7, 2010
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James S. Robbins
5 Mins
When Is a Fake a Fraud?

May 2002 -- Miss Cleo is in big trouble. In her TV commercials, she offers to tell her callers' fortunes, to divine their problems, and to

Sep 7, 2010
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Edouard Hudgins
4 Mins
Beyond Good and Bad

February 2002 -- The virtue of selfishness has become a tough sell. Before September 11, one could score points for egoism by elaborating

Sep 7, 2010
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12 Mins
Succeeding by the Cowboy Code

July/August 2008 -- Every now and then, Larry Barnes rides his big brown horse, Duke, around town and at nearby tourist destinations...

Sep 7, 2010
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Frédéric Minnick
4 Mins
Reply to a Misanthrope

July/August 2008 -- I maintain an online blog (http://bidinotto.journalspace.com) that allows me to comment (and sometimes to rant) about

Sep 7, 2010
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Robert J. Bidinotto
5 Mins
All in Favor Say "I"

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded

Sep 7, 2010
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5 Mins
Entrepreneurship: Is Life Like That?

Summer 2009 -- In 1897, during the twilight of the Aesthetic Movement, the Reverend Emory Lyon wrote The Art of Living. At the beginning of

Sep 7, 2010
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10 Mins
The Decline of the East

March 2002 -- BOOK REVIEW: The Decline of the East What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. By Bernard Lewis.

Sep 7, 2010
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Joan Kennedy Taylor Remembered

Joan Kennedy Taylor, a long-time associate of Ayn Rand and key participant in the beginnings of the Objectivist movement....

Sep 7, 2010
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3 Mins
What Shall We Do With a Bumptious Sailor?

Venter is the biochemist (and daredevil yachtsman) who directed a small corporate rival of the official U.S.-U.K. genome-sequencing team and

Sep 7, 2010
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10 Mins
The Servile Citizen

A large billboard in a local Metro station cautions passersby to “Cover your cough” and “Wash your hands frequently” when you have a cold...

Sep 7, 2010
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Edouard Hudgins
6 Mins
"Indoctrinate U"

As I don’t equate a movie’s budget with its worth, please don’t take it as a sobriquet that young director Evan Coyne Maloney’s recent..

Sep 7, 2010
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Robert L. Jones
6 Mins
Rand Central Station

For quite a number of years, I’ve been conducting guided walking tours of New York City. These include “Revolutionary Manhattan,” a tour of

Sep 7, 2010
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Frédéric Cookinham
4 Mins
Green Cathedrals: Environmentalism's Mythological Appeal

September 2007 -- Every culture and its institutions are the living embodiments of certain fundamental ideas about man and his place in the

Sep 2, 2010
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Robert J. Bidinotto
10 Mins

Nous promouvons un objectivisme ouvert : la philosophie de la raison, de la réussite, de l'individualisme et de la liberté.