Ayn Rand Christmas

“The best aspect of Christmas is the aspect usually decried by the mystics: the fact that Christmas has been commercialized. The gift-buying, stimulates an enormous…

Civilized Society

“The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from socialrelationships, thus establishing the principle that if men wish to deal with…

Objectivists

We are radicals for capitalism; we are fighting for that philosophical base which capitalism did not have and without which it was doomed to perish.”

Ayn Rand on Liberals and Conservatives

” The “liberals” are constantly asserting that they represent the future, that they are “new,” “progressive,” “forward-looking,” etc.—and they denounce the “conservatives” as old-fashioned representatives…

Ayn Rand on Chrismas

“The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”—not “Weep…

Ayn Rand on Public Property

“Since “public property” is a collectivist fiction, since the public as a whole can neither use nor dispose of its “property,” that “property” will always be taken over by some political…

Ayn Rand on Individual Rights

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from…

Ayn Rand on America

” I can say—not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political and esthetic roots—that the United States…

Competing Governments?

“A recent variant of anarchistic theory, which is befuddling some of the younger advocates of freedom, is a weird absurdity called “competing governments.” Accepting the…

Altruistic Murder

  “The most dreadful butchers were the most sincere. They believed in the perfect society reached through the guillotine and the firing squad. Nobody questioned…

Permanent chump

Krugman writes in his recent article called permanent slum that our current depressed economy and high unemployment might be the new norm. Of course this…

Obama vs Reality

Obama: Capitalism is a theory that never worked. Reality: America which has existed for roughly 220 years has been built into a super economic power…