| Type | Title | Author | Date |
| FrontReport | Degraded Discussion of Gitmo | Edward Hudgins | 6/17/2005 |
| Description: Comparing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay to a Stalinist Gulag or a Nazi death-camp is not only incorrect; it's dishonest and disgusting. |
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| Article | The Ideas That Promote Terrorism | David Kelley | 4/1/2005 |
| Description: In an address to the March against Terror in Washington, D.C., David Kelley appealed to all who stand for happiness, freedom, progress, and reason to join in opposing those who want to control the mind, roll back progress, stifle freedom--and who are willing to kill and maim to do so. |
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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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| Article | The Freedom Olympics | Roger Donway | 10/1/2004 |
| Description: Americans typically measure their freedom by looking backward or forward--backward to the early republic or forward to their ideal republic. But another useful gauge can be obtained by looking outward--to the world's other republics, and to its non-republics as well. That is, we may wish to know, in the spirit of international sports competitions: How well does America do in its pursuit of freedom, when compared with other countries? |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Atlas Chased | Edward Hudgins | 8/6/2004 |
| Description: The United Nations' plan for global taxation is an attempt to chase productive individuals seeking to evade looting governments anywhere they go. America should stand strong against this contemptible policy. |
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| Op-ed | Are the People of the Middle East Fit for Freedom? | Edward Hudgins | 5/14/2004 |
| Description: Here's a twist on the Iraqi torture story. Our revulsion at the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and our system's ability to uncover and correct those abuses are signs of our moral and political health, based on universal principles of justice. But the lack of outrage in the ''Arab street'' to the mutilation of the burned bodies of dead allied soldiers or -- it seems -- the beheading of an American civilian raises the question, are the people of the Middle East fit for freedom? America's ability to transform dysfunctional societies is limited; citizens of those societies will need to reform their own countries for themselves. |
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| Letters | Letters: Precautionary Principle, Toleration (Jan/Feb 2004) | | 2/1/2004 |
| Description: Irfran Khawaja on the Precautionary Principle applied to war, Stephen Hicks on Voltaire and Toleration. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: A Trial for Saddam Hussein | Edward Hudgins | 12/17/2003 |
| Description: Saddam Hussein now will stand trial for his crimes. The lessons of the trial could be as critical as Saddam’s capture. |
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| Center News | Five Speakers Spark ''A Meeting of Minds'' | | 12/1/2003 |
| Description: On November 1, one hundred and thirty people attended The Objectivist Center’s one-day conference, “A Meeting of Minds,” held in New York City. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, December 2003 | | 12/1/2003 |
| Description: Nonprofits and minimum wage; Scandinavia Pro-business?; Ashtray inspectors; Where Europeans see threats to world peace. |
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| Commentary | American World Conquest? It's More Likely Than You Think | William Thomas | 10/21/2003 |
| Description: Further terrorist attacks won't send America into pacifism, but into likely world conquest. |
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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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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, October 2003 | | 10/1/2003 |
| Description: African Education, Hong Kong and the Future of Freedom, Our Friends the South Koreans |
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| Commentary | How Chile Was Saved | Jose Pinera | 9/1/2003 |
| Description: Leftist legend says that Salvador Allende was a popular, democratic president ousted by a repressive military dictatorship. In fact, the revolution that overthrew him rescued Chile from the horrors of Marxist socialism and started the country on a path to genuine freedom. José Piñera sets the record straight. |
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| Letters | Letters: On Weighing War (July/August 2003) | | 8/1/2003 |
| Description: Letters in response to William Thomas article Weighing War |
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| Article | Objectivity as a Weapon | William Thomas | 5/31/2003 |
| Description: Embedding reporters with American military units served the cause of truth--and the goals of the United States. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: War with Iraq | | 4/30/2003 |
| Description: Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923 By Efraim Karsh and Inari Karsh; The War Over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission By Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol; Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism By Dore Gold; The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq By Kenneth M. Pollack |
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| Commentary | Reflections on the Journalists' War Chatter | William Thomas | 4/5/2003 |
| Description: Reflections on the Journalists' War Chatter |
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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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| Op-ed | Rejecting the Fetish of United Nations Consensus | Edward Hudgins | 3/20/2003 |
| Description: Whether one favors the war with Iraq or not, those with a fetish for a United Nations sanction to give moral legitimacy to American actions exposed their own ethical confusion and pernicious political premises. In this op-ed I argue that the United States was founded to protect the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of its citizens, while the U.N. is dominated by governments that repress their own people. American foreign policies should be judged by whether they protect the freedom of Americans, not by whether they can garner a majority from the mortally bankrupt. |
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| Commentary | Is John Galt Venezuelan? | Thor Halvorssen | 2/28/2003 |
| Description: In January, nearly 90 percent of Venezuelan workers were refusing to participate in the economy that sustains the tyranny of Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez. In effect, the strikers in Venezuela have provided an answer to the question that prompted Ayn Rand to write Atlas Shrugged: What would happen if a society's productive members ceased to subsidize their own enslavement? |
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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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| 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 | 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 | Islamism and Modernity; Lou Dobbs is right. | David Kelley | 6/10/2002 |
| Description: Lou Dobbs is right. Islamism is at war with Modernity. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Islam and the West | | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, by Samuel P. Huntington; Islam and the West, By Bernard Lewis; The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years, By Bernard Lewis; Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923, By Efraim Karsh and Inari Karsh |
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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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| Op-ed | To Be or Not To Be: Israel and ''Recognition'' | Russell La Valle | 4/18/2002 |
| Description: Israel does not need recognition from Arab states. It already
exists. |
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| Op-ed | Powell and Arafat: An Exercise in Futility | Patrick Stephens | 4/16/2002 |
| Description: Powell’s Mid-east peace trip to Israel is futile, and peace efforts will
continue to fail as long as we insist on treating terrorists such as Arafat as statesmen. |
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| Op-ed | Treating like as like, Arafat and The Axis of Evil | Shawn E. Klein | 3/27/2002 |
| Description: Arafat is as much a part of the evil in the world as Saddam
Hussein, and should be treated accordingly. |
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| Op-ed | Foreign aid to Africa won’t help, and it may very well hurt. | Jim Peron | 3/21/2002 |
| Description: Foreign aid to Africa won’t help, and it may very well hurt.
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Middle East | | 3/21/2002 |
| Description: Suggested Readings: Middle East -- Empires of the Sand by Efraim Karsh; The Middle East, by Bernard Lewis; Cultures in Conflict, by Bernard Lewis; The Muslim Discovery of Europe, by Bernard Lewis |
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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 | Nelson Mandela Turns his Back on Sept. 11 | Jim Peron | 1/4/2002 |
| Description: Nelson Mandela Turns his back on the U.S. -- opposes war on
terrorism
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| Commentary | The Justice of War | Patrick Stephens | 11/16/2001 |
| Description: Just War Theory. The aggressor -- in this case al-Qaedi and the Taliban -- is responsible for the loss of innocent life in a just war. |
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| Commentary | A McDonald's in Kabul? | Shawn E. Klein | 11/9/2001 |
| Description: The exportation of American values is what threatens fundamentalists, not the exportation of our cultural products like McDonalds. |
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| Op-Ed | Manifest Destiny, 2001 | Joy Bushnell | 10/18/2001 |
| Description: America needs to bring its ideology to the terrorists, as well as its bombs. |
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| Commentary | The Roots of Peace | Patrick Stephens | 9/21/2001 |
| Description: Patrick Stephens explains that after the World Trade Center attack the American policy toward terrorism should be one of zero-tolerance and swift justice; and that American foriegn policy cannot abandon our allies or avoid interventionism. |
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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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| Letters | Letters: The Balkans (Aug 2001) | | 8/10/2001 |
| Description: In response to James S. Robbin's Commentary: "The Balkans: A Time for Principled Action" from the May 2001 issue of Navigator |
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| Commentary | Whatever it Takes | James S. Robbins | 6/1/2001 |
| Description: James S. Robbins declares that George W. Bush's commitments to defend Taiwan should be applauded, not admonished. |
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| Op-ed | The Balkans: A Time for Principled Action Op-Ed | James Robbins | 5/30/2001 |
| Description: Bring the troops in the Balkans home. |
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| Commentary | The Balkans: A Time for Principled Action | James S. Robbins | 5/1/2001 |
| Description: Like most of Clinton’s foreign policy, his various forays into the Balkans were ad hoc, says James S. Robbins, a professor at the National Defense University. Bush has a chance to change that and take a more principled stance on foreign affairs. |
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| Commentary | Update on Missile Defense | | 4/1/2001 |
| Description: Update on Missile Defense |
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| Commentary | The Moral Necessity of Missile Defense | James S. Robbins | 3/1/2001 |
| Description: Homeland defense is the primary national security priority and ultimate moral requirement of any state. Today, says James Robbins, a professor of international relations at National Defense University, that means the United States must build an antiballistic missle system. |
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| Op-ed | Op-Ed: The Moral Necessity of Missile Defense | James S. Robbins | 2/22/2001 |
| Description: The government must pursue a missile defense program. |
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| Commentary | Will the Free World Lose Western Europe? | Kevin Hill | 2/1/2001 |
| Description: A consequence of the post-World War II years was the growth of peaceful cooperation among West European nations, and that has culminated in the creation of a quasi-federal system. Unfortunately, says Kevin Hill, this new system betrays the principles of liberty for which the West fought the Cold War. |
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| Interview | The East is Ready | | 3/1/1999 |
| Description: Ross H. Munro journalist and China expert warns: "Chinese [have been] walking through America's best nuclear weapons laboratories and picking up documents because scientists and/or military officers were trying to ingratiate themselves." Munro believes that China seeks to dominate Asia. Find out more, and how the United States should respond. |
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| Letters | Rethinking Foreign Policy: Roundtable Discussion | | 6/1/1994 |
| Description: Roundtable discussion of Roger Donway's Rethinking Foreign Policy article series on rational foreign policy. Originally published in 1994. |
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| Article | Rethinking Foreign Policy (Conclusion) | Roger Donway | 3/1/1994 |
| Description: Roger Donway's last article in a 3 part series on a rational foreign policy. Originally published in 1994. |
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| Article | Rethinking Foreign Policy (Part II) | Roger Donway | 1/1/1994 |
| Description: Roger Donway's second article in a 3 part series on a rational foreign policy. Originally published in 1994. |
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| Article | Rethinking Foreign Policy (Part I) | Roger Donway | 11/1/1993 |
| Description: Roger Donway's first article in a 3 part series on a rational foreign policy. Originally published in 1993. |
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