Muhammad vs. Muhammad: Myths and Realities About Islam's Founder
Robert Spencer 27 January 2012There are numerous reasons to question the historicity of the early Muslim accounts of Muhammad's life.
The Joy of Football
Thomas Bowden 25 January 2012The Super Bowl Offers a Too-Rare Celebration of Goal-Achievement
Romney: Not Ready for Prime Time
Michael Hurd 21 January 2012Romney could have used Gingrich's attacks to, in turn, attack Obama. It's particularly easy to do this when Gingrich is attacking Romney on the same ideology as Obama's.
Greatness Unrealized
Michael Hurd 21 January 2012Our greatness lies not in our capacity to write a check to a charity organization or to build houses for poor people. Our greatness lies in our individual willingness to create, to produce, and to use our minds.
They May Hate Capitalism, But They Sure Love To Loot It
Michael Hurd 19 January 2012The more our government drains our economy of capital, the less capitalism there will be. Government is the vulture -- not anyone who runs a business!
Santorum and the Mullahs Agree on the One Thing That Matters
Michael Hurd 18 January 2012When Rick Santorum claims, as do many conservatives, that we are free only at God's discretion, they have done something the Founders of the United States never did. They have introduced religion into the equation.
Supreme Court Should Repeal ObamaCare For The Right Reasons
Michael Hurd 16 January 2012The Supreme Court should strike down ObamaCare, but for the right reasons. Otherwise, we’ll be stuck with Obama’s Final Solution one way or another.
Battle in D.C? What Battle? I Don't See Any Battle
Michael Hurd 15 January 2012The problem with government, and the politicians who fund it, is that it's not accountable. Government cannot go out of business.
What We Should Remember on Martin Luther King Day: Judge People by Their Character, Not Skin Color
Edwin Locke 15 January 2012What should we remember on Martin Luther King Day? In his "I Have a Dream" speech Dr. King said: "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
It's the Spending, Stupid
Michael Hurd 14 January 2012In the 1990s, Bill Clinton's people ran on the campaign theme, "It's the economy, stupid." The more accurate phrase today should be, "It's the spending, stupid."
Why Iran Should Not Have Nuclear Weapons
Michael Hurd 13 January 2012For those of us who don't understand the issue, can you explain why you believe that Iran is so dangerous and why we must prevent them from obtaining a nuclear weapon?
The Republican Shift To The Left: "Vulture" Capitalism is a Contradiction in Terms
Michael Hurd 13 January 2012The latest evidence of America's continuing shift to the left comes form the Republican candidates themselves.
Fed Plays PR Games
John Browne 13 January 2012The Fed claims that the move will vastly increase so-called transparency, which has become a buzz word for honesty and virtue. However, the new policies do nothing to remove the cloak of secrecy that conceals still many of its most significant activities.
Margaret Thatcher Movie, Iron Lady, is a Well Crafted Tale Worth Watching
Scott Holleran 13 January 2012In a culture that fetishizes powerful women instead of admiring them for themselves and their achievements, The Iron Lady stands out as a well-crafted tale of a woman who merely steps in to run things because no one else is really up to the job.
Socialized Medicine's Deceptions: "Personal Responsibility" and Health Care
Richard Ralston 13 January 2012Can anyone remember a time when personal responsibility referred to what we each think that we should do?
Capitalist Solutions: Resolving America's Problems
Andrew Bernstein 12 January 2012Individual rights and free markets are, in every case, the solution to America’s problems.
Santorum for Ayatollah 2012
Michael Hurd 12 January 2012A conservative like Santorum will claim to be against Big Government, but he's all in favor of it when it comes to shaping personal or family life in the way he wants to see it shaped.
Humans Must Choose Egoism: An Excerpt from Andrew Bernstein's Captalist Solutions
Andrew Bernstein 12 January 2012An excerpt from "Chapter 1: The Relevant Principles of Objectivism" from Andrew Bernstein's book Capitalist Solutions: A Philosophy of American Moral Dilemmas.
Why Is The U.S. Dollar Rising Against The Euro?
Peter Schiff 10 January 2012I believe that the dollar is rising for reasons that have nothing to do with America's economic health.
Rivals for Your Life: Religious Conservatives vs. Islam
Edward Cline 9 January 2012The Left allies itself with Islam because of shared totalitarian yearnings and ends. Religious conservatives, however, oppose Islam basically because it is a rival creed, a "competing faith."
How The Economy Works
Northrup Buechner 8 January 2012It is prices that integrate the economy into a unit. It is prices that reconcile the apparently opposing interests of the members of an economy.
Religious Conservatives vs. Islam
Edward Cline 8 January 2012The Left allies itself with Islam because of shared totalitarian yearnings and ends. Religious conservatives, however, oppose Islam basically because it is a rival creed, a "competing faith."
Gingrich on Health Care
Michael Hurd 2 January 2012True leaders are people with genuine ideas. Neither Romney nor Gingrich qualify. Their only real qualification is that they're not Obama.
What is the Meaning of New Year's?
Scott McConnell 1 January 2012The meaning of most holidays is clear: Valentine's Day celebrates romance; July Fourth, independence; Thanksgiving, productivity; Christmas, good will toward men. The meaning of New Year's Day--the world's most celebrated holiday--is not so clear. On this day, many people remember last year's achievements and failures and look forward to the promise of a new year, of a new beginning. But this celebration and reflection is the result of more than an accident of the calendar. New Year's has a deeper significance. What is it?
Book Reviews: Nothing Less Than Victory by John David Lewis
Mike Hagan 31 December 2011With no real end in sight in the War on Terror, the "new normal" of constant deployments and unending conflict is a condition that the majority of the military has come to accept. Is there a better way?
Review: Fascism and Theater
Edward Cline 20 December 2011Reading Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945*, I was not surprised to find in this collection of essays similarities between the methods employed by Nazis, Fascists and Communists to create and sustain support for their régimes, and the methods by which the Democrats and Republicans recruit and maintain their hard core, registered voters, activists and especially their convention delegates, the ones charged with nominating their parties’ candidates – that is, the people responsible for foisting onto this country for the last half century or more a succession of fork-tongued demagogues and empty suits.
Risky Moves Spark Quick Rally
John Browne 5 December 2011Liquidity alone will do little to solve the underlying insolvency of many European nations, which may only be absolved through massive debt forgiveness. However, that problem was swept under the rug yet again by deft political maneuvers.
Euro and the Dollar: Whose Fuse is Shorter?
Peter Schiff 23 November 2011If Merkel's hard line works, and real cuts follow, Europe will be praised for blazing a different trail. As a result the euro could rally and the dollar sinks. Commodity prices will rise, putting even more upward pressure on consumer prices and interest rates in the United States.
Manipulated U.S. Rates Seesaw Gold Prices
John Browne 22 November 2011Precious metals are not merely a hedge against inflation. They are insurance also against financial catastrophe.
The Storm Troopers of OWS
Edward Cline 21 November 2011"Occupying" a public space and blocking its use by the public, however, is an initiation of force.
Your Doctor is Rude? Maybe this is Why
Michael Hurd 21 November 2011What would you feel like if the government declared that your services were owed to the community whether members of the community could afford them or not?
Why the Holidays Are So Stressful For So Many
Michael Hurd 19 November 2011The problem with holidays as we know them, especially holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, is that they stir up the unhappiness of people who are already unhappy in the first place.
Businesspeople are the Ones Who Need to Protest
Michael Hurd 18 November 2011The first rule of business, then, is to identify what your core values are, and resolve to live by them.
Obama's Kind of Immigrants
Michael Hurd 14 November 2011Immigration is not the problem. The redistributive welfare-regulatory state is.
Five Differences Between the American Revolution of 1776 and Today
Michael Hurd 13 November 2011These candidates are the reflection of something more deeply wrong with our society.
Herman Cain: Guilty Until He Can Prove Himself Innocent
Michael Hurd 12 November 2011Imagine if you were put on trial for breaking a law and your lawyer was informed, “Your client must prove he didn’t do it. The burden of proof is on him.” This would be the antithesis of rationality, and what has always been the uniquely American form of justice.
Iran Policy: "I'll Think About That Tomorrow"
Michael Hurd 12 November 2011You can't attack Iran. It might make people mad!
Giving Real Meaning to Veterans Day
Edwin Locke 11 November 2011Honoring our past soldiers requires that we ask our future ones not to sacrifice their values, but to uphold them.
The Beginning of the End of Fiat Money
John Browne 10 November 2011The argument for the dollar and against gold is simplistic, and I will evaluate it against the four-stage collapse I see ahead for the Western currencies.
What We Owe Our Soldiers This Veteran's Day
Alex Epstein 10 November 2011Justice demands that we also recognize that we should have far more living veterans than we do. All too many of our soldiers have died unnecessarily--because they were sent to fight for a purpose other than America's freedom.
Death by 1,000 Cuts
Neeraj Chaudhary 8 November 2011With the US stock market's recent volatility, many investors may be wondering whether or not we are headed for another 2008-style crash where the market drops 30 to 40 percent within a few short weeks.
Free Markets are Good Medicine
Richard Ralston 8 November 2011Those who prefer government management of medicine have a wider agenda: they hate the idea of a free market in medicine because they hate the idea of free markets in anything.
Firebombing Freedom of Speech
Edward Cline 8 November 2011There have been numerous fine articles condemning the November 2nd firebombing of Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical newspaper in Paris that dared mock Islam and front-paged a cartoon of Mohammad with the balloon caption, “One hundred lashes if you don’t die laughing.” Needless to say, this act of terrorism is just another instance of censorship by force.
U.S. Government Was Morally Required To Take Out Jihadist Al-Awlaki
Robert Spencer 8 November 2011Anwar al-Awlaki was an American citizen, yes. He was also a traitor. He was waging war against his native country. He was an enemy combatant. If an American citizen had gone to Germany and joined the Wehrmacht in 1942, and was killed in battle against American forces, would anyone have been raising “constitutional issues” over the killing? This is an Islamic jihad. Al-Awlaki was a jihadist, dedicated to killing Americans. He got what was coming to him.
The Redistribution of Health
Michael Hurd 6 November 2011Understanding the premises of Obama's "one-man death panel."
No Palestine State Until They Reject Jihadist Ideology
Robert Spencer 6 November 2011The U.S. should thus stand firmly with Israel and reject a Palestinian state.
An Apologist for Sharia Who Is Unfit to Be President: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
Robert Spencer 2 November 2011Chris Christie is one who panders to the leftist agenda while adopting a posture of taking the moral high ground against the benighted right-wingers who are actually standing for freedom and human rights. Christie is man who is radically unfit to be President of the United States, in 2012 and at any time.
Book Review: The Closing of the Muslim Mind by Robert R. Reilly
Edward Cline 2 November 2011The Closing of the Muslim Mind should be required reading for anyone who hopes to argue effectively against Islamic jihad.
The Nihilistic Revolution of "Occupy Wall Street"
Michael Hurd 2 November 2011This whole nihilistic movement known as "Occupy Wall Street" rides on the premise that the vast majority are suffering at the hands of the tiny minority who do make a lot of money.
What Facts of Reality Gave Rise to the Science of Economics?
Northrup Buechner 2 November 2011An excerpt from the Introduction to "Objective Economics: The Implications of Ayn Rand's Philosophy on the Science of Economics"
Dollars and Crosses
- Jane Orient on Quitting Medicare
- Ayn Rand’s Essay “To Whom It May Concern” Now Online
- Uses and Sources of Gold
- New Book: How to be Profitable and Moral: A Rational Egoist Approach to Business
- Democracy and Self Determination of Peoples: Euphenisms for Mob Rule in the Middle East
- Private Schools for the Poor
- Holleran on Anti-Hero Worship
- Salsman on the Anti-Capitalist Conservatives
- New Website: Checking Premises
- Job Creators: Who Do those Immigrants Think They Are?
Peikoff Podcast
- What do you think of long distance relationships? Is there any point at which it would be more rational to break up even if the two people are still in love?
- Was Dagny in love with Francisco and Rearden at the time when she was with them? Was she after she met Galt?
- Do you distinguish official Objectivist doctrine from Ayn Rand’s personal views?
- Episode 201
- How did you perform at college?
- Sometimes I get angry with people because I concretize how their ideas are destroying other people’s lives. But I see you and other Objectivists dealing cordially with such destructive people. How do you do it?
- What is the word on your latest book, The DIM Hypothesis?
- Is the ending of the movie ET what Ayn Rand calls “malevolent universe?”
- Episode 200
- Interview to see whether an Objectivist could get elected. Peikoff as media questioner, Yaron Brook as Presidential candidate. Part 2 of 2.
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- Our Killing Schools - Public Schools: Intellectual and Moral Wastelands that Destroy America's Youth
- Violence in American Schools: An Interview with Dr. Michael Hurd
- July Fourth Celebrates America's and the West's Core Values: Reason, Rights, and Science Are What Made America Great
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- Attacks Against Microsoft Immoral
