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Our Self-crippled Policy Encouraged the Deadly Embassy Attacks [Foxnews.com]
Friday, September 28, 2012
By: Elan Journo

Asking Don Watkins: Can Ayn Rand's Ideas Really End Big Government? [Washington Times - Communities]
Monday, September 17, 2012
By: Don Watkins

An Interview with Don Watkins [Education News]
Sunday, September 16, 2012
By: Don Watkins

The Virtue of Employee Layoffs [Forbes.com]
Thursday, September 6, 2012
By: Don Watkins

Galt Goes Global [Foreignpolicy.com]
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
By: Elan Journo

Why Paul Ryan Is No Ayn Rand on Social Security [The Christian Science Monitor]
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
By: Don Watkins

Ayn Rand's Appeal [Foxnews.com]
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
By: Onkar Ghate

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: A Paean to American Liberty [The Guardian, U.K.]
Friday, August 17, 2012
By: Don Watkins

Ryan, Rand and Rights [The Daily Caller]
Friday, August 17, 2012
By: Don Watkins

President Obama vs. My Grandfather [Forbes.com]
Monday, July 30, 2012
By: Don Watkins and Yaron Brook

The Dog-Eat-Dog Welfare State Is Lose-Lose [Forbes.com]
Thursday, July 12, 2012
By: Don Watkins and Yaron Brook

Private Equity Firms Want Their Acquisitions To Profit, Not Fold [Investor's Business Daily]
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
By: Doug Altner

Opposing view: Celebrate private equity [USA Today]
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
By: Don Watkins and Yaron Brook

3 Things Everyone Needs to Know About the Apple Antitrust Case
Monday, April 16, 2012
By: Don Watkins and Yaron Brook

The 'On Your Own' Economy [Forbes]
Friday, March 9, 2012
By: Don Watkins and Yaron Brook

Happy Birthday, Ayn Rand--Why Are You Still So Misunderstood? [Fox News Opinion]
Thursday, February 2, 2012
By: Don Watkins

Why Rent Control is Immoral
Monday, January 23, 2012
By: Michael S. Berliner

America Before The Entitlement State [Forbes]
Friday, November 18, 2011
By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

How Did Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" Predict an America Spinning Out of Control? [Fox News Opinion]
Monday, October 31, 2011
By: Onkar Ghate

What We Owe Steve Jobs [Forbes]
Thursday, October 6, 2011
By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

The Entitlement State Is Morally Bankrupt [Forbes]
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

How Important Is the Obamacare Litigation? [Daily Caller]
Friday, August 12, 2011
By: Thomas A. Bowden

We're Running Out of Freedom, Not Oil [Daily Caller]
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
By: Alex Epstein

Nuclear Power Is Extremely Safe -- That's the Truth About What We Learned From Japan [Fox News Opinion]
Monday, July 25, 2011
By: Alex Epstein

What's Missing from the Budget Debate [Forbes]
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

Does America Need Ayn Rand or Jesus? [Fox News Opinion]
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
By: Onkar Ghate

When It Comes to Wealth Creation, There Is No Pie [Forbes]
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

Four Dirty Secrets about Clean Energy [Fox News Opinion]
Friday, June 3, 2011
By: Alex Epstein

Vindicating Standard Oil, 100 Years Later [The Daily Caller]
Friday, May 13, 2011
By: Alex Epstein

It's Time to Kill the "Robin Hood" Myth [Forbes]
Friday, May 6, 2011
By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

"Atlas Shrugged": With America on the Brink, Should You "Go Galt" and Strike? [Christian Science Monitor]
Friday, April 29, 2011
By: Onkar Ghate

The Radicalness of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" [Fox News Opinion]
Monday, April 25, 2011
By: Onkar Ghate

Greens vs. Energy [American Thinker]
Friday, April 22, 2011
By: Alex Epstein

Why "Atlas Shrugged" Changes Lives [Pajamas Media]
Saturday, April 16, 2011
By: Debi Ghate

The Road to Socialized Medicine Is Paved With Pre-existing Conditions (Part 3) [Forbes]
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

The Road to Socialized Medicine Is Paved with Pre-existing Conditions (Part 2) [Forbes]
Thursday, March 10, 2011
By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

The Road to Socialized Medicine Is Paved with Pre-existing Conditions [Forbes]
Thursday, February 10, 2011
By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

Forget Groundhog Day--Why Businessmen Should Say Happy Birthday to Ayn Rand [Fox News Opinion]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
By: Alex Epstein

The Tea Party Will Fail--Unless it Fully Embraces Individualism as a Moral Ideal
Friday, January 21, 2011
By: Thomas A. Bowden

How About Tax Reparations for the Rich?
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

The 6 Myths About Oil
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
By: Alex Epstein

Can Arthur Brooks Beat Back Big Government?
Monday, December 27, 2010
By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

The Irresponsible Individual Mandate
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

The Avastin Travesty
Sunday, December 12, 2010
By: Thomas A. Bowden

Let's Take Back Columbus Day
Friday, October 8, 2010
By: Thomas A. Bowden

Apple Now Targeted for Success Like Microsoft Was in the 1990s
Monday, October 4, 2010
By: Thomas A. Bowden

The Guilt Pledge
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

Our Moral Code Is Out of Date
Thursday, September 16, 2010
By: Yaron Brook & Onkar Ghate

How To Succeed In Business: Really Try
Monday, September 13, 2010
By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

The Un-American Dream
Friday, August 27, 2010
By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

Obama Follows Nixon on Oil Spills
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
By: Alex Epstein

The U.S. Anti-Business Epidemic
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

Atlas Shrugged's Timeless Moral: Profit-Making Is Virtue, Not Vice
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
By: Yaron Brook

Elena Kagan: Could She Defend the Constitution's Purpose?
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
By: Thomas A. Bowden

Three Myths About Oil
Friday, June 18, 2010
By: Alex Epstein

6 Questions for Environmentalists On Earth Day
Thursday, April 22, 2010
By: Alex Epstein

What About Private Health Emergencies?
Thursday, April 8, 2010
By: Thomas A. Bowden

What's Really Driving the Toyota Controversy?
Friday, March 26, 2010
By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

Apple vs. GM: Ayn Rand Knew the Difference. Do You?
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
By: Don Watkins & Yaron Brook

Were the Founding Fathers Media Socialists?
Monday, March 1, 2010
By: Don Watkins

Get Real, Bernanke Didn't "Save" Our Economy
Thursday, January 28, 2010
By: Alex Epstein

Memo To Foes Of Health Reform: Repudiate The Morality Of Need
Monday, December 28, 2009
By: Yaron Brook & Don Watkins

Person of the Year? How About Spinmeister of the Year?
Monday, December 21, 2009
By: Alex Epstein

Commercialism Only Adds to Joy of the Holidays
Friday, December 18, 2009
By: Onkar Ghate

Celebrate Thanksgiving the Ayn Rand way: Thank yourself
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
By: Debi Ghate

Obama's Flawed Prescription for Health Care
Thursday, November 19, 2009
By: Jeff Scialabba

The Problem with Our Health-Care Debate
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
By: Alex Epstein

What Obama Should Say to Iran
Monday, November 16, 2009
By: Debi Ghate

Let's Take Back Columbus Day
Thursday, October 8, 2009
By: Thomas Bowden

Smash the Labor Monopolies!
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
By: Thomas Bowden

Our Self-Crippled War
Thursday, September 10, 2009
By: Elan Journo

Why Are We Moving Toward Socialized Medicine?
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
By: Yaron Brook

Punishing Google for Its Success
Thursday, June 4, 2009
By: Alex Epstein

What We Owe Our Soldiers
Friday, May 22, 2009
By: Alex Epstein

Misrepresenting "How We Arrived at This Moment"
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
By: Alex Epstein

Mob Rule Comes to Washington
Monday, April 6, 2009
By: Peter Schwartz

The Real Meaning of Earth Hour
Monday, March 23, 2009
By: Keith Lockitch

Is Rand Relevant?
Friday, March 13, 2009
By: Yaron Brook

Anti-Smoking Paternalism: A Cancer on American Liberty
Friday, March 6, 2009
By: Don Watkins

Obama Whitewashes Iran
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
By: Elan Journo

The Green Energy Fantasy
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
By: Keith Lockitch

Let Bankruptcy Courts Take the Wheel
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
By: Thomas Bowden

Big Government, not Big Media, Threatens Free Speech
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
By: Don Watkins

No "Footprint," No Life
Friday, January 9, 2009
By: Keith Lockitch

Why Christmas Should Be More Commercial
Thursday, December 25, 2008
By: Leonard Peikoff

Stop Blaming Capitalism for Government Failures
Thursday, November 13, 2008
By: Yaron Brook and Don Watkins

Nationalization Is Theft
Friday, November 7, 2008
By: Thomas A. Bowden

The Maestro vs. the Market
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
By: Alex Epstein

Supreme Disappointments
Monday, November 3, 2008
By: Thomas A. Bowden

The Meaning of the Right to Vote
Monday, November 3, 2008
By: Alex Epstein

What We Owe Our Soldiers
Monday, November 3, 2008
By: Alex Epstein

Let Them Fail
Friday, October 31, 2008
By: Amit Ghate

Fleeting Freedom: The Indecent Assault on Broadcasters
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
By: Don Watkins

Columbus Day Celebrates Western Civilization
Monday, October 6, 2008
By: Thomas Bowden

In Defense of Speculators and Short-Sellers
Thursday, October 2, 2008
By: Amit Ghate

Big Business: Home of Individualism
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
By: Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein

Let's Stop Making Disasters More Disastrous
Friday, August 29, 2008
By: Thomas Bowden

California Children Still Considered State Property
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
By: Thomas Bowden

Retire Social Security
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
By: Alex Epstein

The Government Did It
Friday, July 18, 2008
By: Yaron Brook

With or Without Nukes, Iran Is a Mortal Threat
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
By: Elan Journo

Put the "Independence" Back in Independence Day
Friday, June 27, 2008
By: Michael Berliner

From Flat World To Free World
Thursday, June 26, 2008
By: Yaron Brook

Bush's War Policy: The Top Campaign Non-Issue?
Thursday, June 12, 2008
By: Elan Journo

An Open Letter to Borrowers and Lenders: Take Responsibility for Your Decisions
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
By: Alex Epstein

Investigate Big Congress, Not Big Oil
Thursday, May 29, 2008
By: Alex Epstein

Set Yahoo! Free
Monday, May 5, 2008
By: Alex Epstein

How Government Makes Disasters More Disastrous
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
By: Thomas Bowden

The Danger of Environmentalism
Friday, April 18, 2008
By: Michael S. Berliner

Life And Taxes
Thursday, April 17, 2008
By: Yaron Brook

The Real Meaning of Earth Hour
Monday, April 14, 2008
By: Keith Lockitch

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