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Book Review: "Ayn Rand Nation" by Gary Weiss

I recently debated Gary Weiss, the author of the new book Ayn Rand Nation , at the New York Financial Writers’ Association. Weiss invited

Apr 23, 2012
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Victor Sperandeo
6 Min.
Tax Day: Penalizing Producers

Productive individuals find themselves more and more under assault by governments seeking to expropriate their wealth. This is the logical

Apr 17, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
5 Min.
Zum Achselzucken besteuert

On Tax Day 2012 we’re greeted with the news that some 1,800 Americans, a record number, last year renounced their citizenship or turned in

Apr 17, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
2 Min.
Ungelernte Lektionen aus der Wohnungskrise

Two very different narratives attempt to explain the massive housing boom and subsequent crash.

Apr 12, 2012
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James Kourlas
10 Min.
ObamaCare's War on Personal Responsibility

Obamacare mandates that all citizens purchase health insurance. But Supreme Court justices ripped into the administration’s “purchase or be

Apr 11, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
5 Min.
It's Not About Contraceptives

In the furor over requiring employer-sponsored health insurance to cover contraceptives, access to birth control is not the issue, and....

Mar 12, 2012
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Dr. Jane Orient
4 Min.
Suing Apple for Keeping Products from Consumers

On March 8, the front page of the Wall Street Journal carried a weird story. It was weird because it involved what is arguably America’s...

Mar 9, 2012
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Walter Donway
5 Min.
Hinter den Kulissen eines ärztlich geleiteten Fachkrankenhauses

Der Schnitt, den Dr. Thomas Tkach in das Knie seines Patienten setzt, ist fast wie ein Uhrwerk. Es ist Freitagmorgen, und innerhalb weniger Minuten hat Dr. Tkach...

7. März 2012
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David Hogberg
4 Min.
Behind the Scenes at a General Hospital

Dr. Eric Logan and First Presbyterian Hospital are pseudonyms, used at the request of the doctor interview...

7. März 2012
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David Hogberg
10 Min.
ObamaCare: Rx for Crisis

When people think of Medicare, they usually think of the government health insurance program for seniors over age 65. They may even recall..

7. März 2012
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David Hogberg
15 Minuten
An Economic Defense of Insider Trading

One side effect of the 2008 financial crisis has been renewed attention to the ban on insider

Feb 12, 2012
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Jeffrey A. Miron
4 Min.
The Alan Greenspan Confession

Under pointed questioning by Henry Waxman, the committee chairman, Greenspan issued a mea-culpa that resounded around the world.

6. Februar 2012
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2 Min.
Kanadas Stephen Harper: Radikal?

Im Januar 1962, in der allerersten Ausgabe des Objectivist Newsletter, schrieb Ayn Rand: "Objectivists are...

6. Februar 2012
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Bradley Doucet
7 Min.
Bharara kündigt neue Strafverfolgung an

Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the judicial district that includes Manhattan, this week announced his latest prosecution of what he now

Jan 21, 2012
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3 Min.
Rick Santorum: Der Anti-Reagan-Republikaner schlechthin

Mit seinem virtuellen Unentschieden bei den Iowa Caucuses ist Rick Santorum die letzte konservative Alternative zum ehemaligen Massachusetts-Go

5. Januar 2012
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Edward Hudgins
4 Min.
In memoriam: Larry Ribstein (1946)

Wir von der Atlas Society und ihrem Business Rights Center trauern um Professor Larry Ribstein, der am 24. Dezember an einem Schlaganfall starb...

4. Januar 2012
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3 Min.
In memoriam: Larry Ribstein (1946

Wir von der Atlas Society und ihrem Business Rights Center trauern um Professor Larry Ribstein, der am 24. Dezember an einem Schlaganfall starb...

4. Januar 2012
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3 Min.
Waiting for Gershon

“The law’s delay” is proverbial; there are snails sculpted on the flagpoles at the Supreme Court. But how long should a person sit in......

Dec 29, 2011
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3 Min.
Der Krieg im Irak: Alles vorbei, aber der Zweifel

At the Baghdad International Airport today United States military forces lowered the American flag, and, in a ceremony with a long tradition

21. Dezember 2011
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Walter Donway
10 Min.
Christopher Hitchens in Erinnerung

Ich traf Christopher Hitchens zum ersten Mal in den frühen 2000er Jahren beim wöchentlichen Treffen der Americans for Tax Reform (Amerikaner für eine Steuerreform), einem Zusammenschluss konservativer und regierungskritischer Persönlichkeiten.

19. Dezember 2011
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Edward Hudgins
7 Min.

Wir fördern den offenen Objektivismus: die Philosophie der Vernunft, der Leistung, des Individualismus und der Freiheit.