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A Child's Letter on the Education Bill — Edward Hudgins (1/22/2002)
A Cool Capitalist — Edward Hudgins (7/21/2006)
A Flashback to ''Atlas Shrugged'' — Adam Reed (4/28/2004)
A McDonald's in Kabul? — Shawn E. Klein (11/9/2001)
A Message from the Executive Director — David Kelley (1/1/2001)
A Tribute to Mister Rogers, A Long, Good Run — Donald Cooper (9/4/2001)
Against Pacifism — Damon W. Root (11/7/2001)
American Heroism — William Thomas (10/15/2001)
American Muslims: Cleaning Their Own House — Edward Hudgins (3/28/2003)
American World Conquest? It's More Likely Than You Think — William Thomas (10/21/2003)
An Israeli Airman Attains New Heights in Painting — Michelle Fram-Cohen (5/1/2004)
Animal Rights and the circus — Scott McPherson (1/31/2002)
Anti-globalism and Nihilism — William Thomas (7/25/2001)
April 15: A Day of Moral Shame — Edward Hudgins (4/14/2004)
Are the People of the Middle East Fit for Freedom? — Edward Hudgins (5/14/2004)
Art and Ideals — David Kelley (2/1/2004)
Atlas Shrugged at 50 — Edward Hudgins (10/11/2007)
Ayn Rand at 100: The Moral Defense of Freedom — Edward Hudgins (1/31/2005)
Ayn Rand in Retrospect — Edward Hudgins (3/5/2002)
Ban Government Racism, Not Discrimination — David Kelley (2/28/2003)
Big Tobacco's Suicidal Detente — Andrew Bissell (8/12/2004)
Birthday Blips: Are Americans Really Free & Equal? — Edward Hudgins (7/3/2006)
Burning Stupid: Bad Forest Management in the West — Charles Tomlinson (9/6/2001)
Can Sex Liberate Red China? — Edward Hudgins (12/8/2003)
Capitalism and financial scandal — Malini Kochhar (7/23/2002)
Celebrating Apollo 11's Sense of Life — Edward Hudgins (7/18/2004)
Character and Color — Edward Hudgins (1/17/2003)
China's Challenge in Space — Edward Hudgins (10/16/2003)
Choosing Sides — Roger Donway (11/13/2001)
Civil Society Is Not Civil Defense — Roger Donway (11/19/2001)
Cloning: Toward a New Conception of Humanity? — Patrick Stephens (4/1/2001)
Columbus Day: In Praise of Exploitation — Edward Hudgins (10/10/2005)
Community and American Individualism — Shawn E. Klein (10/17/2001)
Creating Our Own Blessings — Edward Hudgins (11/26/2002)
Dealing with an Anxious Time — Richard Warshak (6/23/2003)
Dear Virginia, No There is No Santa Claus — Greg Perkins (12/10/2001)
Decline Demands Philosophers, Not Censors — Roger Donway (1/1/2001)
Defining the Election of 2004 — Edward Hudgins (11/4/2004)
Democratic Tyranny — Patrick Stephens (4/30/2002)
Derrida Comes to ABC — Roger Donway (1/1/2001)
Destroying Embryos is not immoral — Patrick Stephens (4/3/2001)
Doctors Shrug — Edward Hudgins (1/15/2003)
Don't Debase Public Service — Roger Donway (1/11/2002)
Drugs and Terrorism--they're not the same thing. — Patrick Stephens (2/6/2002)
Enron: It's OUR Problem — William Thomas (2/27/2002)
Enron's Lessons for Capitalism — William Thomas (3/21/2002)
Environmentalism: Don't Judge It by Its Extremists. — Patrick Stephens (2/1/2001)
Environmentalist Vultures — Edward Hudgins (1/30/2006)
Every Day a New Year — Edward Hudgins (1/1/2007)
Example of Our First President — Edward Hudgins (2/26/2004)
Extracting Ourselves from the Wetlands Quagmire — Edward Hudgins (8/4/2003)
Faith and Funding: What Is the Root of the Stem Cell Controversy? — Patrick Stephens (8/10/2001)
Fascism in a Lei — Edward Hudgins (9/6/2005)
Finding a personal response to the terrorist attacks — Shawn E. Klein (10/9/2001)
France Labors at Folly — Edward Hudgins (3/29/2006)
France's Killer Collectivism — Edward Hudgins (9/15/2003)
Free Minds and Free Militaries — William Thomas (3/31/2003)
Freedom is a Crack — Walter Donway (8/14/2009)
From the Silk Trade Route to the World Trade Center — Neera Badhwar (9/9/2002)
Goodwill Toward Men — Edward Hudgins (12/17/2004)
Government Funding vs. the Progress of Science — Malini Kochhar (6/20/2002)
Government, Yes! Leviathan, No! — Roger Donway (10/5/2001)
Hollywood Applauds Terrorism — Edward Hudgins (4/30/2002)
Hollywood Canonizes an Eco-Terrorist — Robert James Bidinotto (5/1/2004)
Honoring the Choice to Die — Michelle Marder Kamhi (4/1/2004)
Hope — David Kelley (1/1/1999)
How Chile Was Saved — Jose Pinera (9/1/2003)
How Price Gouging Laws Make Hurricanes Worse — Frank Bubb (10/4/2004)
Human Cloning is good for all of us — Patrick Stephens (4/3/2001)
Human Cloning: When is a person a person? — Patrick Stephens (12/4/2001)
Inadvertent Observations: Finding the barbarian — Edward Hudgins (2/7/2004)
Is Community Service Really a Good Idea? — Edward Hudgins (4/22/2002)
Is John Galt Venezuelan? — Thor Halvorssen (2/28/2003)
Is Miss Cleo a criminal? She's certainly a fraud. — Edward Hudgins (3/18/2002)
Islamism and Modernity; Lou Dobbs is right. — David Kelley (6/10/2002)
Israel’s right to self-defense — Tal Ben-Shahar (6/21/2002)
Jihad comes to Harvard — Tal Ben-Shahar (6/12/2002)
John Q. in Canada — John Vincent (6/30/2002)
Keep the Al Qaida prisoners in Cuba — Stephen Browne (3/6/2002)
Let's Declare the Fourth of July a Tax-Free Day! — Edward Hudgins (7/4/2007)
Liquidate Amtrak — Joseph Vranich (3/22/2002)
'Living Wages' Are Anti-Life — Damian Moskovitz (7/1/2001)
Looking into the (Ed School) Abyss — Bradford P. Wilson (6/30/2002)
Manifest Destiny, 2001 — Joy Bushnell (10/18/2001)
Markets or Morals? — Roger Donway (4/1/1999)
Markets or Morals? July/August 2000 — Roger Donway (7/1/2000)
Martha Burk's Pseudo-Event — Russell La Valle (6/23/2003)
Medicare--The Mammoth in the Living Room — Judy Kopulos (10/13/2009)
Medicine Could Reach For Stars, FDA Willing — Edward Hudgins (10/6/2004)
Misbehavioral Economics? — Donald Cooper (5/1/2001)
Moral Wisdom in Manhattan — Shawn E. Klein (10/1/2002)
Morality and Politics — David Kelley (2/1/2001)
NASA is right to deny passage to ''Space-tourist.'' — Tim Richmond (6/22/2001)
Nobel Prize in Economics — Donald Cooper (10/18/2001)
Obstruction of Freedom — Edward Hudgins (9/10/2004)
Of Courage Undaunted — Russell La Valle (5/31/2003)
On Trading Security for Liberty — William Thomas (10/16/2001)
One Giant Leap Toward Fascist America: Kelo Vs. New London — Edward Hudgins (6/23/2005)
One Nation Under. ? — Tim Richmond (7/18/2002)
Op-Ed: Let's Make Earth Day A Religious Holiday — Robert James Bidinotto (4/15/2001)
Op-Ed: The Moral Necessity of Missile Defense — James S. Robbins (2/22/2001)
Open Letter to My American Friends — Jose Pinera (9/17/2001)
Policing Phone Calls and Perverting Principles — Edward Hudgins (5/18/2006)
Political Correctness Still Runs Rampant — Donald Cooper (1/1/2001)
Position Statement on Terrorists Attacks — (10/12/2001)
Postmodernism and the Jefferson-Hemings Myth — David Mayer (5/1/2001)
Powell and Arafat: An Exercise in Futility — Patrick Stephens (4/16/2002)
Reckless Legislating — Shawn E. Klein (9/1/2001)
Reflections on the Journalists' War Chatter — William Thomas (4/5/2003)
Reilly Steals Home: A.G. ''deal'' with the Red Sox was simply extortion. — Shawn E. Klein (1/17/2002)
Rejecting the Fetish of United Nations Consensus — Edward Hudgins (3/20/2003)
Remember: It's not 'Infinite Justice' — Roger Donway (11/20/2001)
Responsibility, Not Regulation — Shawn E. Klein (7/30/2002)
Restoring Our World — Shawn E. Klein (9/18/2001)
Return to the Moon? Not with this NASA — Edward Hudgins (1/24/2004)
Robert Nozick and the Good Fight — David Kelley (3/21/2002)
Save NPR! Not! — Shawn E. Klein (8/14/2002)
Scorsese's Aviator Reflects Randian Lessons — Edward Hudgins (1/18/2005)
Security and Liberty — William Thomas (10/12/2001)
Self-Judgment Days — Shawn E. Klein (9/1/2001)
Sidebar: Business Needs a Civil Liberties Union—Now! — Roger Donway (3/18/2009)
Signals from SpaceShipOne — Edward Hudgins (10/5/2004)
Spring is a time for personal renewal — Edward Hudgins (3/28/2002)
Star Wars and the politics of republics — Edward Hudgins (5/21/2002)
Starbuck's Fat Cup of Trouble — Edward Hudgins (6/26/2006)
Supply-Side Ethics — David Kelley (3/1/2001)
Support the Media's Right To be Disgusting — Roger Donway (2/1/2001)
Switzerland's Most Wanted — Eric Barnhill (2/28/2002)
Tax Codes Reflect Moral Codes — Edward Hudgins (6/23/2003)
Tax Policy Is Moral Policy — Edward Hudgins (4/14/2003)
Tax Wars — Edward Hudgins (4/14/2005)
The Assault on Civilization — David Kelley (9/13/2001)
The Balkans: A Time for Principled Action — James S. Robbins (5/1/2001)
The Balkans: A Time for Principled Action Op-Ed — James S. Robbins (5/30/2001)
The Battle for Toleration--and Its Betrayal — Roger Donway (11/1/2003)
The Best and the Brightest — David Kelley (1/1/2001)
The best self-defense is self-defense — Tim Richmond (4/30/2002)
The Charms and Enchantments of Fantasy — William Thomas (8/1/2003)
The Cipro Looters — William Thomas (11/12/2001)
The Collapse of a Postmodern Corporation — Roger Donway (5/31/2002)
The Corruption of Democracy — David Kelley (4/1/2001)
The Enlightenment Spirit of Edward Jenner — Roger Donway (5/31/2003)
The Generous Imagination of William Shakespeare — Susan McCloskey (4/29/2003)
The government's envy engine — Madeleine Cosman (9/4/2002)
The Human Spirit of Christmas — Edward Hudgins (12/22/2003)
The Iliad and Islam — Edward Hudgins (6/24/2004)
The Importance of Blacklisting — Roger Donway (8/30/2002)
The Industrial Revolution's Indispensable Entrepreneur — Roger Donway (9/1/2003)
The Intellectual as Barbarian — Roger Donway (1/11/2002)
The Internet in Closed Societies — Patrick Stephens (7/1/2001)
The Irrelevance of the Avant-Garde — Eric Barnhill (11/7/2001)
The Justice of War — Patrick Stephens (11/16/2001)
The Liberty Dollar Bill — Jim Cox (10/31/2001)
The Life-Centered Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson — Robert James Bidinotto (4/29/2003)
The Limits of Law — James S. Robbins (10/16/2001)
The Moral Necessity of Missile Defense — James S. Robbins (3/1/2001)
The Morality of Money — William Thomas (6/30/2002)
The New Intolerance? — Edward Hudgins (5/9/2002)
The Popular Art of Giuseppe Verdi — Roger Donway (10/1/2003)
The Poughkeepsie Accords — Roger Donway (6/1/2001)
The Problems with ''The Passion's'' Moral Message — Edward Hudgins (3/3/2004)
The Productive Meaning of Thanksgiving — Edward Hudgins (11/23/2005)
The Public Side of Private Love — Edward Hudgins (2/14/2003)
The Rachmaninoff Revival — Eric Barnhill (5/31/2002)
The Road to Rationing — Walter Donway (8/10/2009)
The Roots of Peace — Patrick Stephens (9/21/2001)
The Shape of Truth — Edward Hudgins (7/10/2003)
The Spiritual Significance of Mars — Edward Hudgins (8/12/2003)
The State of The Union and The Culture of Responsibility — David Kelley (1/30/2002)
The Toxic Fallout on Campus — Damon W. Root (10/3/2001)
The Triumph of Leviathan — Herbert London (10/1/2003)
The Underground Offers No Escape — David Kelley (12/7/2001)
There Ought to be a Law! — Shawn E. Klein (6/13/2001)
Three Billion Dollar Award for Irresponsibility — Tim Richmond (6/11/2001)
Time to Derail Amtrak — Matthew Curtis (7/19/2002)
To Be or Not To Be: Israel and ''Recognition'' — Russell La Valle (4/18/2002)
Towards a Leaner, Meaner Government — Roger Donway (11/7/2001)
Treating like as like, Arafat and The Axis of Evil — Shawn E. Klein (3/27/2002)
Two Cheers for John Tierney — Roger Donway (2/28/2002)
Two Jeers for Democracy — Tal Ben-Shahar (12/18/2002)
Two Jeers for Democracy — Roger Donway (12/18/2002)
Unilateral Moral Disarmament — Robert James Bidinotto (9/21/2001)
Update on Missile Defense — (4/1/2001)
Updates on July/August Commentaries — (9/1/2001)
Urban Sprawl is just another name for growth and prosperity — Charles Tomlinson (12/17/2001)
Valentine’s Day: A Day to Celebrate the Best — Tim Richmond (2/7/2002)
Vandal Chic — Heather Mac Donald (8/30/2002)
We Must Reach for the Stars — Edward Hudgins (2/3/2003)
We Three Kongs — Edward Hudgins (12/19/2005)
Weighing War: How to Think About Iraq and North Korea — William Thomas (4/1/2003)
What If There Were No America? — Edward Hudgins (6/28/2003)
What Is the Objectivist View of Libertarianism? — David Kelley (3/31/2003)
What Unites America? Unity in Individualism! — Edward Hudgins (6/30/2004)
What Will Happen Now? — James S. Robbins (9/21/2001)
Whatever it Takes — James S. Robbins (6/1/2001)
When Is a Fake a Fraud? — Edward Hudgins (5/31/2002)
Whom Should We Thank? — Roger Donway (11/22/2004)
Why Not the Best? — Donald Cooper (7/1/2001)
Why not the Best? Op-ed — Donald Cooper (5/30/2001)
Why on Earth... Are So Many Americans Uninsured? — Bradley Doucet (4/24/2009)
Why on Earth... Are We So Polarized? — Bradley Doucet (9/5/2009)
Why on Earth... Do We Believe in the “Hot Hand”? — Bradley Doucet (5/2/2009)
Why on Earth... Is FedEx Crying “Bailout”? — Bradley Doucet (6/19/2009)
Why on Earth… Are We So Worried about the Planet? — Bradley Doucet (4/18/2009)
Why on Earth---Are Vampires So Hot? — Bradley Doucet (10/30/2009)
Why on Earth---Are We So Afraid of Flying? — Bradley Doucet (2/19/2009)
Why on Earth---Are Women Still Oppressed Around the World? — Bradley Doucet (5/20/2009)
Why on Earth---Are You So Glum, Class of 2009? — Bradley Doucet (6/12/2009)
Why on Earth---Can’t I Sell You My Kidney? — Bradley Doucet (8/1/2009)
Why on Earth---Did We Mortgage the Future? — Bradley Doucet (6/4/2009)
Why on Earth---Do Americans Need Protection from Chinese Tires? — Bradley Doucet (10/3/2009)
Why on Earth---Do Leaders So Often Disappoint? — Bradley Doucet (8/11/2009)
Why on Earth---Do Some Still Blame Vaccines for Autism? — Bradley Doucet (2/25/2009)
Why on Earth---Do Unions Oppose Education Reform? — Bradley Doucet (11/10/2009)
Why on Earth---Do We Tolerate Bullying? — Bradley Doucet (4/10/2009)
Why on Earth---Does Journalism Need Saving? — Bradley Doucet (5/28/2009)
Why on Earth---Does Obama Think He Can Run the Car Companies? — Bradley Doucet (4/3/2009)
Why on Earth---Does the War on (Some) Drugs Continue? — Bradley Doucet (3/26/2009)
Why on Earth---Doesn’t the U.S. End the Cuban Embargo? — Bradley Doucet (2/11/2009)
Why on Earth---Don’t We End Government-Run Ponzi Schemes? — Bradley Doucet (3/19/2009)
Why on Earth---Haven’t We Been Back to the Moon? — Bradley Doucet (7/17/2009)
Why on Earth---Is Health Care “Different”? — Bradley Doucet (7/24/2009)
Why on Earth---Is Health Such a Low Priority? — Bradley Doucet (9/23/2009)
Why on Earth---Is Protectionism Still Popular? — Bradley Doucet (2/4/2009)
Why on Earth---Is There No Money in Star Trek? — Bradley Doucet (5/10/2009)
Why on Earth---Should Agriculture be Subsidized at All? — Bradley Doucet (3/6/2009)
Why on Earth---Should We Cash in Our Clunkers? — Bradley Doucet (8/28/2009)
Why on Earth---Would Anyone Trust Michael Moore? — Bradley Doucet (10/14/2009)
Why We Give Gifts — Edward Hudgins (12/22/2005)
Why We Watch the Skies — Edward Hudgins (5/9/2003)
Will Government Kill the Sugarplum Fairy? — Edward Hudgins (12/20/2002)
Will the Free World Lose Western Europe? — Kevin Hill (2/1/2001)
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