| Type | Title | Author | Date |
| Article | The Next Chief Justice | David Mayer | 9/6/2005 |
| Description: With the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist the Senate and the country will debate whether John Roberts, President Bush’s nominee to take over the top Supreme Court job, is qualified for the position. In his article ''The Next Chief Justice,'' written before Rehnquist’s passing, David N. Mayer, a Constitutional scholar and Professor of Law and History at Capital University, sets out the criteria by which this justice should be judged. |
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| Op-ed | Fascism in a Lei | Edward Hudgins | 9/6/2005 |
| Description: A bill before Congress would accelerate the politics of racial, ethnic and cultural
division in Hawaii and the rest of the United States. |
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| FrontReport | One Giant Leap Toward Fascist America | Edward Hudgins | 6/23/2005 |
| Description: In Kelo vs. New London, The US Supreme Court has delevered a mortal blow to property rights. |
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| Article | Eliot Spitzer: Ayatollah General | Roger Donway | 4/1/2005 |
| Description: Since becoming the attorney general of New York, Eliot Spitzer has conducted an aggressive campaign against the financial industry, restructuring the business landscape in accordance with his moral vision, as though he were a religious dictator suddenly transplanted from the Middle East. |
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| Article | Sovietizing America: How Sustainable Development Crushes the Individual | Edward Hudgins | 4/1/2005 |
| Description: Michael Shaw and Edward Hudgins
An unrecognized threat to the liberty and prosperity of each American has spread throughout the country, taking root in every state and county. Its current and most serious manifestation was fashioned by an international organization with the explicit goal of replacing the autonomy of individuals over their own land with a collectivist control system that ultimately destroys the natural rights of each citizen. |
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| Article | More on Law and Punishment | William Perry | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: A recent Supreme Court decision has given a bizarre twist to the state of sentencing law. |
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| Article | Quattrone Appeals His Conviction | Roger Donway | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: Frank P. Quattrone is appealing his conviction for obstruction of justice, and his arguments are being supported by several associations of lawyers. |
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| Review | The Normality of Freedom | Timothy Sandefur | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: Randy Barnett offers a systematic defense of a libertarian interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. |
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| Article | Demonize, Then Pulverize | Sam Kazman | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: Ten years ago, a new type of lawsuit was filed against the tobacco industry. It began by making the industry into a national pariah and then demanding huge payments in compensation for the expenses it had supposedly thrust upon the U.S. states. That pattern is quickly becoming the model for many other lawsuits |
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| Center News | Debating the Ideas Behind the War on Iraq and Terrorism | | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: Synopsis of the October 22, 2004 conference: "Lessons from the Iraq War: Reconciling Liberty and Security." |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Government and Business | | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: The Rule of Lawyers, Property Matters, Government Failure, Just Get Out of the Way. |
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| Article | The Benefits of Price Gouging | Frank Bubb | 10/1/2004 |
| Description: To understand why price-gouging laws contribute to the shortages that follow natural disasters, one must understand that prices are a means of conveying information about a continually changing reality. |
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| Article | Law and Punishment | William Perry | 10/1/2004 |
| Description: Frank O. Bowman of Indiana University has said: ‘There has not been a single case in the history of American criminal law with the immediate impact of this one.’ What case is he talking about, and why is it so important? |
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| Op-ed | Obstruction of Freedom | Edward Hudgins | 9/10/2004 |
| Description: Visionary banker Frank Quattrone has been sentenced to eighteen months in prison, allegedly for obstruction of justice, even though the government never indicted him for any crime whose prosecution he might have been obstructing. This case and Martha Stewart's open the floodgates for government assaults on those who have done nothing but arouse the fury of muckrakers and the envy of egalitarians. Americans should understand that a government powerful enough to quash a Frank Quattrone on such a bogus charge can crush any of us. |
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| Op-ed | Big Tobacco's Suicidal Detente | Andrew Bissell | 8/12/2004 |
| Description: Tobacco company Philip Morris is supporting a Congressional plan that would place on it even more regulations. But as Andrew Bissell argues in this op-ed, for too long tobacco companies have tried to make deals with anti-smoking zealots who want to shut them down, only to find such deals don't purchase peace but simply invite more attacks. Whether one is a smoker or not, one must recognize that consumer freedom is in danger when government can snuff out industries and products of which they disapprove. |
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| Op-ed | Celebrating Apollo 11's Sense of Life | Edward Hudgins | 7/18/2004 |
| Description: July 20 marks the 35th anniversary of the first Moon landing. That achievement is a wonderful manifestation of America's optimistic sense of life, our understanding that if we put our minds and wills to a task, we can do almost anything. But that day also reminds us that in the long run, private entrepreneurs, not government agencies, make goods and services available for everyone. So let's take time to reflect on the great achievements of the past and to recognize that America's optimistic sense of life means that our greatest achievements will be yet to come! |
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| Article | In Defense of Cowboy Capitalism | Roger Donway | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Pro-capitalists need to offer a defense of big-business executives that is not undercut by libertinism, postmodern moral skepticism, religious morality, or utopian illusions. |
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| Article | The Case for Frank Quattrone | Roger Donway | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Frank Quattrone, the star investment banker of the dot-com era, was convicted in May 2004 on two counts of obstructing justice and one count of witness tampering. He is scheduled to be sentenced on September 8, and faces up to twenty years in prison. What was the exact nature of Quattrone’s alleged crime? And how strong was the evidence against him? |
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| Commentary | Honoring the Choice to Die | Michelle Marder Kamhi | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: What is the most humane way to treat individuals who, at the end of a long life, express a clear-minded wish to die? As a society with an increasingly aged population, we need to confront this question head-on. |
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| Article | Fortress Americanism | Roger Donway | 2/1/2004 |
| Description: Foreign ideas—mostly European ideas—are having a growing influence on American judges, lawyers, and political theorists. In principle, there is nothing wrong with this. As a nation of immigrants, America has thrived by importing the fresh perspectives of foreigners. But when the foreign ideas influencing U.S. elites are also alien ideas—alien to the fundamental philosophy of our founding—then they bring danger. |
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| Op-ed | Return to the Moon? Not with this NASA | Edward Hudgins | 1/24/2004 |
| Description: If we're true to our nature, we will explorer and settle planets. But NASA will not get us to Mars; only individuals with vision, acting in a free market, will make us a truly space-faring civilization. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: The Englishwoman and the Naughty School | Edward Hudgins | 12/10/2003 |
| Description: The socialist philosophy in its essence: equality is preferable even if it means that everyone is left equally ignorant or, in the economic sphere, equally poor. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, November 2003 | | 11/1/2003 |
| Description: Fighting corruption, Wordwatchers Corner, Lawyers fighting for welfare rights, Polls about beliefs show cultural split. |
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| Op-ed | China's Challenge in Space | Edward Hudgins | 10/16/2003 |
| Description: China’s launch of a man into space has many American policy makers asking, "Are we in a new space race? Should NASA budgets be increased?" In this op-ed I maintain that American concerns over China’s achievement reflect three decades of NASA’s missed opportunities. . I argue here, as I do in my book, "Space: The Free-Market Frontier," that NASA should begin to back out of civilian space activities, turning over operations to the private sector. Rather than launching a new space race, the U.S. government should unleash American entrepreneurs who will help make us a true, space-faring civilization. |
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| Article | Interpreting the Constitution Contextually | David Mayer | 10/1/2003 |
| Description: Debate over constitutional interpretation, and Supreme Court nominees, is often conducted in terms of strict construction versus loose construction and conservative versus liberal. The participants in these debates—like the six blind men with the elephant—have all got hold of a partial truth but have missed the big picture.
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Endangered Constitution | Edward Hudgins | 8/12/2003 |
| Description: Only when legislators and judges recognize that laws are meant to protect freedom and must be clear and objective will we begin to restore a semblance of a government that is our protector rather than our persecutor |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Mouse Droppings and Government Hypocrites | Edward Hudgins | 7/31/2003 |
| Description: The federal agency that oversees food safety, that inspects meat and poultry, couldn’t keep the mouse droppings out of its own eatery |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Protecting Property and Profits | Edward Hudgins | 7/18/2003 |
| Description: Pharmaceutical companies are entitled to their profits and re-importation of drugs supports state-sponsored theft. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Charity begins where government stops. | Edward Hudgins | 7/11/2003 |
| Description: Government and charity should not mix. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: The Court's black and white decision. | Edward Hudgins | 6/27/2003 |
| Description: The Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action |
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| Commentary | Tax Codes Reflect Moral Codes | Edward Hudgins | 6/23/2003 |
| Description: Should we acquiesce when government takes our money in taxes? What is the basis for such levies? And on what basis should the impositions be distributed among the population? TOC's Washington director, Ed Hudgins, demonstrates that the various answers people give to these questions reflect their varying moral codes. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Volunteers May Need to Volunteer. | Edward Hudgins | 6/18/2003 |
| Description: AmeriCorps is cutting funding of its 'volunteer' program. |
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| Interview | Power to the Purchasers! | | 5/31/2003 |
| Description: Fran Smith's Consumer Alert is a free-market group that believes consumers will benefit more from a market economy than from government regulation. |
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| Letters | Letters: Democracy (April 2003) | | 4/30/2003 |
| Description: The End of the American Republic? |
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| Op-ed | Tax Policy Is Moral Policy | Edward Hudgins | 4/14/2003 |
| Description: Taxation is primarily a moral issue. Taxes are supposed to pay the costs of protecting the citizens’ lives, liberties and property. But most tax funds are wealth transfers that amount government expropriation rather than protection of rights. The tax system itself immorally punishes the most productive members of society. |
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| Commentary | Weighing War: How to Think About Iraq and North Korea | William Thomas | 4/1/2003 |
| Description: When should a free country go to war? William Thomas lays out the essentials
of the Objectivist approach to foreign policy and war. Looking at the cases
of Iraq and North Korea, the article examines the considerations that should
go into a decision for war, and assesses the long term effects and
legitimacy of war in both cases. |
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| Article | Doctors Shrug | Edward Hudgins | 3/31/2003 |
| Description: In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand imagined a monstrous world in which the political regime makes it easy and legal for the rapacious and the envious to steal from the productive. Not surprisingly, many producers go on strike. This nightmare scenario is now breaking out across the United States. The victims are physicians. |
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| Commentary | Free Minds and Free Militaries | William Thomas | 3/31/2003 |
| Description: A spate of proposals to revive the draft has recently emerged from the Left and the Right. William Thomas analyses these schemes as manifestations of the ongoing collectivist attempt to destroy America’s individualist society. |
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| Commentary | Ban Government Racism, Not Discrimination | David Kelley | 2/28/2003 |
| Description: The current argument for affirmative action is undermined by government funding and corrupted by collectivist premises. But advocates of individualism should recognize that a "meritocratic" approach relying solely on grades and tests is not the answer. The answer is a rational and free society in which a wide variety of schools would be allowed to create widely varying types of student bodies by discriminating among applicants in any number of ways. |
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| Review | The Founders' Father | Edward Hudgins | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: Historian David McCullough was recently asked why America's Founding Fathers seem so qualitatively different from today's politicians. His answer was simple and direct: "They didn't just read Cicero, Cicero was part of them." |
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| Article | The State-Made Crisis in Health Insurance | David Kelley | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: The health insurance "crisis," like other problems of the health care industry, is the product of government interventions in the market. |
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| Article | The Inherent Individualism of Insurance | Stephen A. Moses | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: No matter how rational and focused we are, we remain vulnerable to unexpected events that can throw our lives into turmoil. We need a tool to help us mitigate the consequences of uncertainty in day-to-day life. Fortunately, we have such a tool: it's called insurance. |
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| Commentary | Two Jeers for Democracy | Tal Ben-Shahar | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: Around the world, unchecked power is being transferred from the one or the few to the many, and Western commentators are applauding this transfer of power. They call it a democratic revolution, which it is, and speak as though it meant the coming of a freer world, which it does not. |
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| Op-ed | The government's envy engine | Madeleine Cosman | 9/4/2002 |
| Description: Terrorist Information Prevention System (TIPS) raises serious civil liberties concerns. Do we really want a government program to encourage us to spy and snoop on each other like in some communist country? |
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| Article | The Law in Wartime | Robert Levy | 8/31/2002 |
| Description: Objectivists agree that national security is a legitimate function of government, and even hardcore champions of the Bill of Rights concede that it would be foolish to treat civil liberties as inviolable when the lives of innocent thousands are at stake. But where should we draw the line when dealing with such issues as military tribunals, ethnic profiling, and national ID cards? |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: The Law and the War | | 8/30/2002 |
| Description: All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime,
By William H. Rehnquist; The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, By Mark E. Neely Jr.; Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat the International Terrorist Network, By Benjamin Netanyahu; Militant Islam Reaches America, By Daniel Pipes |
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| Op-ed | Responsibility, Not Regulation | Shawn E. Klein | 7/30/2002 |
| Description: In the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals, we need more
responsibility, not more regulation. |
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| Op-ed | Time to Derail Amtrak | Matthew Curtis | 7/19/2002 |
| Description: Amtrak and the entitlement culture in America. |
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| Op-ed | One Nation Under. ? | Tim Richmond | 7/18/2002 |
| Description: God and the pledge of allegiance. |
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| Article | You Will Volunteer! | Edward Hudgins | 6/30/2002 |
| Description: President Bush's USA Freedom Corps is supposed to be the vehicle by which every American devotes two years of his life "to the service of your neighbors and your nation." Remarkably, the administration's arguments for this program are based on philosophy, not pragmatism. Regrettably, the philosophy behind the program is the enemy of individualism, self-responsibility, liberty, and even benevolence. |
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| Op-ed | Israel’s right to self-defense | Tal Ben-Shahar | 6/21/2002 |
| Description: The Israeli occupation is self-defense, not aggression.
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| Op-ed | Government Funding vs. the Progress of Science | Malini Kochhar | 6/20/2002 |
| Description: The government should not be engaged in funding scientific
research.
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, May 2002 | | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: EU and Xenophobia ban, shifting coalitions |
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| Commentary | When Is a Fake a Fraud? | Edward Hudgins | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: The Federal Trade Commission and the Florida attorney general have charged Miss Cleo and her Psychic Readers Network with fraud. But the real problem is not with Miss Cleo; it's with her clients. |
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| Commentary | Democratic Tyranny | Patrick Stephens | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: Democracy is a valuable part of a free society, but, writes Patrick Stephens, TOC's manager of current affairs, democracy provides no guarantee of liberty. Indeed, in the Muslim world, democracy may lead to the imposition of Islamic law and a harsher tyranny than most dictators would dare to impose. |
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| Op-ed | The best self-defense is self-defense | Tim Richmond | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: Germany’s Gun control laws made it easier for the school
shooter to kill. |
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| Press Release | Privatize the Post Office: Press Release | | 4/5/2002 |
| Description: The Post Office is raising rates again. Do they really need to? Is there a better way? |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, March 2002 | | 3/31/2002 |
| Description: Muslim countries and the lack of freedom, liberal Ivy League professors, Economic Freedom, Top taxpayers pay the most tax. |
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| Op-ed | Liquidate Amtrak | Joseph Vranich | 3/22/2002 |
| Description: Liquidating Amtrak would be good business—preventing it would
just be bad politics. |
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| Op-ed | Is Miss Cleo a criminal? She's certainly a fraud. | Edward Hudgins | 3/18/2002 |
| Description: Is Miss Cleo a criminal? She's certainly a fraud.
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| Op-ed | Keep the Al Qaida prisoners in Cuba | Stephen Browne | 3/6/2002 |
| Description: Keep the Al Qaida prisoners in Cuba
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| Op-ed | Drugs and Terrorism--they're not the same thing. | Patrick Stephens | 2/6/2002 |
| Description: The government's new anti-drug ad campaign is absurd and demeaning.
And it won’t work. |
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| Op-ed | Human Cloning: When is a person a person? | Patrick Stephens | 12/4/2001 |
| Description: A detailed philosophical analysis of why an embryo is not a
person.
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Totalitarianism | | 12/1/2001 |
| Description: Suggested Readings on Totalitarianism to go with Brink Lindsey's article: The New Totalitarians. |
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| Article | The New Totalitarians | Brink Lindsey | 12/1/2001 |
| Description: The United States is not just at war with terrorists; it is at war with a new form of totalitarianism, according to the Cato Institute's Brink Lindsey. |
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| Commentary | Civil Society Is Not Civil Defense | Roger Donway | 11/19/2001 |
| Description: The one thing government absolutely must not do is meddle with civil society, through groups like Americorps and Seniorcorps. Government must simply get out of the way of civil society, lift its regulations on private institutions, and cut taxes enough that people may support such organizations. |
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| Commentary | Towards a Leaner, Meaner Government | Roger Donway | 11/7/2001 |
| Description: What we need is leaner, meaner government. Therefore, the best contribution that civilians can make at this time is to take back from government the tasks extraneous to providing national security. |
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| Op-ed | On Trading Security for Liberty | William Thomas | 10/16/2001 |
| Description: As the Administration proposes and Congress debates new laws to improve
the safety of our skies, our cities, and our factories, let us encourage
the principled, creative, and energetic defense of our liberty. But let
us also take diligent care that liberty remains our sovereign principle,
and our way of life secure. |
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| Commentary | The Limits of Law | James S. Robbins | 10/16/2001 |
| Description: Now especially, writes James Robbins, international judicial tribunals are a bad vehicle for foreign policy. |
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| Commentary | Security and Liberty | William Thomas | 10/12/2001 |
| Description: Willam Thomas discusses the role of government in providing security and protecting our liberties in light of the September 11 terrorist attacks |
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| Commentary | Government, Yes! Leviathan, No! | Roger Donway | 10/5/2001 |
| Description: Have the terrorist attacks of September 11 brought Americans around to a Left-liberal conception of government? Do many more citizens now believe that Washington should keep taxes high, provide the public with an ever-expanding array of services, and hire bureaucrats to take over private sector tasks? |
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| Commentary | What Will Happen Now? | James S. Robbins | 9/21/2001 |
| Description: James S. Robbins discusses the security and retalitory options that America has after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attack on September 11, 2001 |
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| Commentary | Updates on July/August Commentaries | | 9/1/2001 |
| Description: Following up on Navigator's stories about the function of the Internet in authoritarian countries; and the causes of the California electricity crisis. |
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| Commentary | Reckless Legislating | Shawn E. Klein | 9/1/2001 |
| Description: New York State has made it illegal for drivers to use a handheld cell-phone, on the grounds that such a phone distracts the driver. Not only is that bad policy, writes Shawn E. Klein, and not only is it a violation of rights, it points to a deeply disturbing relationship between American citizens and their government. |
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| Commentary | The Internet in Closed Societies | Patrick Stephens | 7/1/2001 |
| Description: The World Wide Web may not be the instrument of freedom that had previously been anticipated, according to Patrick Stephens, since it can often be censored as easily as a telephone. |
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| Letters | Letters: Lands of Liberty | | 6/14/2001 |
| Description: A collection of letters in response to the annual Lands of Liberty articles. |
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| Op-ed | There Ought to be a Law! | Shawn E. Klein | 6/13/2001 |
| Description: We don't need additional regulation to control reckless driving: even if people are on cell phones. |
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| Op-ed | Three Billion Dollar Award for Irresponsibility | Tim Richmond | 6/11/2001 |
| Description: Smokers should take responsibility for their own choices.
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| Commentary | Update on Missile Defense | | 4/1/2001 |
| Description: Update on Missile Defense |
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| Article | Lands of Liberty 2001 | Roger Donway | 4/1/2001 |
| Description: Navigator’s fourth annual survey of world freedom looks at the current state of liberty in 192 countries. Along the way, it asks some questions that may help libertarians analyse the condition of freedom in their own countries: |
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| Article | A Victory in Bratislava | Roger Donway | 4/1/2001 |
| Description: Side bar from Lands of Liberty 2001. |
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| Interview | The Roots of the Great Depression | | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: Many economists and political scientists have worked to present an objective view of the causes of the Great Depression. In this interview, noted scholar Richard Timberlake explores the way in which government helped cause and prolong the Depression by manipulating the money supply. |
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| Article | Ideological Differences and Political Evolution | David Kelley | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: With both presidential candidates advocating education plans, health-care plans, and tax-cut plans, and parading their religiosity, voters might be excused for believing that Election 2000 presented an arbitrary choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. In these two articles, however, David Kelley and Patrick Stephens argue that an important difference did exist between the philosophies of the two main candidates, while Roger Donway contends that a country seeking ordered liberty should not want transcendent leaps in its politics. |
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| Article | Lands of Liberty 2000 | Roger Donway | 4/1/2000 |
| Description: Navigator's third annual survey of world freedom, and lack thereof. |
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| Article | Is Democracy Good for Economic Growth? | Roger Donway | 4/1/2000 |
| Description: A sidebar to the Lands of Liberty 2000. |
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| Interview | CEI's Fred Smith is Marketing the Market | | 3/1/2000 |
| Description: An exclusive interview with Fred Smith, founder and president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, wherein we learn how CEI puts ideas into action to curb and reverse the growth of collectivism and statism. |
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| Interview | Marketing the Market | | 3/1/2000 |
| Description: An outtake from "CEI's Fred Smith is Marketing the Market," an interview with CEI founder and president Fred Smith, published in the March 2000 Navigator. |
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| Article | Pariah Politics | Roger Donway | 3/1/2000 |
| Description: Because political campaigns are won by assembling coalitions, an increasingly common political tactic is to insist that one's opponent renounce the support of some sizable group. Typically, the reason put forward is that the views and behavior of the designated group make it so reprehensible that any association with it is morally unacceptable. |
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| Excerpt | Liberty — and the Business of Government | | 12/1/1999 |
| Description: Excerpts from one of Cato's Letters, by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon. The authors' thesis, which reflects the high value that the Enlightenment placed on (small-r) republican virtue, deals with the role of citizenship in the preservation of liberty. |
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| Interview | The Education of Richard Kossmann | | 11/1/1999 |
| Description: An interview with neuro-ophthalmologist Richard Kossmann |
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| Interview | Regulation's Yoke | | 8/1/1999 |
| Description: An exclusive interview with one of America's best-known scholars of regulatory burden: Thomas D. Hopkins, dean of the College of Business at the Rochester Institute of Technology. According to Hopkins, regulation has shifted sharply from constraints on imports and prices to regulations in the environmental and risk-reduction category, with the latter nearly tripling its percentage of the total burden. Meanwhile, the total cost of environmental regulation, in constant 1995 dollars, has more than tripled, and now stands at 260 billion dollars or more, exceeding the cost of national defense. |
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| Article | Lands of Liberty 1999 | Roger Donway | 4/1/1999 |
| Description: Navigator's second annual survey of world freedom. Using Freedom House's 1997-1998 report on civil liberties and political rights (democracy), editor Roger Donway names the names of those who have (a relative degree of) freedom and those who do not. Along the way, he offers some speculations about why nations tend to cluster toward the extremes in the rankings of political freedom and toward the middle in the ranking of civil liberties. |
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| Review | What Works against the Welfare State? | James Payne | 3/1/1999 |
| Description: A review of A Life of One's Own: Individual Rights and the Welfare State by David Kelley. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, December 1998 | | 12/1/1998 |
| Description: Kennedy administration and antitrust, email as legal liability, Russian and Soviet history, Dennis Vacco. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, November 1998 | | 11/1/1998 |
| Description: Taxi discounts limited, English versus American policing, Kantian morality and Christianity, Big Business: the persecuted minority. |
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| Interview | Banking, Regulation, and the Information Age | | 11/1/1998 |
| Description: An interview with IOS Sponsor Tom Cirillo on the intersection of revolutions in information processing and financial services. |
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| Interview | A Guide to the Microsoft Case | | 9/1/1998 |
| Description: Robert A. Levy, a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute is interviewed on his views regarding the charges by the Justice Department against Microsoft. (9/98) |
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| Interview | A Guide to the Microsoft Case Outakes | | 9/1/1998 |
| Description: Outtakes from the September 1998 interview with Robert Levy (9/98) |
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| Excerpt | Antipodean Altruism | Lindsay Perigo | 6/1/1998 |
| Description: An excerpt from Lindsay Perigo's talk to the 1997 Summer Seminar where he criticizes accounts of libertarian advances in New Zealand. |
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| Article | Lands of Liberty 1998 | Roger Donway | 4/1/1998 |
| Description: A consideration of surveys by Freedom House and the Fraser Institute on the relative degrees of democracy, civil rights, and economic liberty throughout the world. |
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| Interview | Litigating for Liberty | Scott Bullock | 1/1/1998 |
| Description: Institute for Justice staff lawyer Scott Bullock recounts his group's goals and victories and makes recommendations for those who are interested in breaking through the false dichotomy in constitutional law of liberal-activism versus conservative-originalism. |
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| Article | Is There a Right to Health Care? | David Kelley | |
| Description: An article on health care, rights, and welfare |
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| Audio | The Welfare State vs. The Constitution | David Mayer | |
Description: Audio Excerpt. Dr. Mayer shows how the Supreme Court has virtually "eviscerated" the Constitution as a protection against abuses of governmental power and "welfare state" legislation.
Buy the audiotape at The Objectivism Store |
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| Audio | Equality: Recapturing an Individualist Principle | Clint Bolick | |
Description: Audio Excerpt. Clint Bolick examines competing conceptions of equality, the legal underpinnings of equality in the American system, and the real-world campaign to capture the banner of equality.
Buy the audiotape at The Objectivism Store |
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| Audio | New Patterns of Force: Modern Threats to Freedom | Edward Hudgins | |
Description: Audio Excerpt. Today the most serious threats to freedom come not from tyrannical dictators but from the web of commonplace government regulations that enmesh our lives.
Buy the audiotape at The Objectivism Store |
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| Audio | Antitrust vs. Capitalism | David Mayer | |
Description: Audio Excerpt. This lecture traces the premises of antitrust law to principles that are feudal, monarchical, and paternalistic—and inapplicable to American society.
Buy the audiotape at The Objectivism Store |
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