Harry Binswanger

Suddenly, Steve Jobs is gone. And only now is his exceptional ability being fully realized. Many of us felt a sense of personal loss at the news of his death. Good tributes to him have appeared in The Wall Street Journal (Walt Mossberg), The NY Times (David Pogue),...

Incredibly, there’s antitrust action going on against Google. Google, which gives away its expert services! Search engines, led by Google, have revolutionized our lives. I noted this phenomenon back in 2003. It’s only 8 years ago, but it seems like a...

President Obama began his speech to Congress by saying: “The question is whether, in the face of an ongoing national crisis, we can stop the political circus and actually do something to help the economy.” In other words, “You oppose me because you...

The shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, though a terrible tragedy, is not of historic significance. More significant is the efforts of the Left to blame this on the Right, particularly the Tea Party movement. The absurdity of these attempts is obvious, and...

The Left "explains" the Right's attachment to its ideas as being due to stupidity. The Right "explains" the Left's attachment to its ideas as being due to personal evil.Example of Leftist "explanations" of the Right: at a party, shortly after the failure of American...

I copied down what some clown on TV said about our debt to China: "Someone in Beijing is laughing as the U.S. goes deeper into debt to pay for the tax cut." Where to begin? Well, the following is basically the order in which I hurriedly wrote down my comments when I...

Take a step back and look what's going on. Last year, Rick Santelli, a Chicago trader who does reports for CNBC did "The Rant Heard Round the World," in which he said, among many good things: "I'm thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July....

Our only hope for saving America from accelerating tyranny is freedom of speech. In the light of that, it was frightening to read an opinion piece in the July 14th edition of the Wall St. Journal. Its author is Lee C. Bollinger, president of Columbia University, home...

Yet another injustice towards Goldman Sachs is circulating on the web. It's the publication of the fact that Goldman Sachs has financially supported Democrats over Republicans. The implicit or explicit conclusion is that Goldman is buying pull. Some bloggers have said...

The Left is now attacking the Tea Party movement as being violent. The only thing violent in that movement is my anger at this charge. How dare the Left, steeped in a long bloody record of violence, make this claim? The public's memory may be short, but mine isn't. I...

Both the L.A. Times (March 11) and the NY Times (March 12) ran articles on the secularism of the Tea Party movement. Both said that the leaders and the grass roots base of the movement are concerned with economic issues much more than the "social" issues of God and...

Rather belatedly, I've just finished reading Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of her Q & A, edited by Robert Mayhew. It's a superb collection, and I want to re-read it soon. In reading it, I was wondering how impressed a non-Objectivist reader might be--and certainly should...

To plumb the depths at the NY Times: I think David Brooks is worse than Paul Krugman. Krugman is a cynical deceiver, who distorts every fact to fit his lust for dictatorship. Brooks, who represents the worst strain of conservatism, actually believes his views, and...

There's no such thing as a "stimulus" to the economy. The closest you could get to that in reality would be a retrenchment of government controls and looting: de-regulation and spending cuts. But even those are not "stimuli" but a lessening of destruction. If I'm...

The connection of Alan Greenspan to Ayn Rand, decades ago, is being used to blacken her name and her ideas.   This from the Leftist "Mother Jones" publication is one of the milder expressions: "In a historic moment, former Fed chair Alan Greenspan acknowledged he...