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Articles & Reviews

Mandatory Health Insurance: Wrong for Massachusetts, Wrong for America (accessible for free)

by Paul Hsieh (read by Karl Kowalski)

Identifies the theory behind the Massachusetts mandatory health insurance program, exposes the program as a fiasco, explains why the theory had to fail in practice, and sheds light on the only genuine, rights-respecting means to affordable, accessible health care for Americans. Listen or download.

The Mystical Ethics of the New Atheists (accessible for free)

by Alan Germani (read by Sean Saulsbury)

Examines the moral ideas of Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Richard Dawkins, exposes some curious truths about their ethics, and provides sound advice for theists and atheists alike who wish to discover and uphold a rational, secular morality.Listen or download.

Reason or Faith: The Republican Alternative (accessible for free)

by John David Lewis (read by Karl Kowalski)

Analyzes the resounding Republican defeat and shows that the party faces a fundamental decision that will determine whether it orchestrates a comeback or stumbles into further defeat. Listen or download.

Capitalism and the Moral High Ground (accessible for free)

by Craig Biddle (read by Sean Saulsbury)

Concretizes the selfishness-enabling nature of capitalism and shows why this feature makes it the only moral social system on earth. Listen or download.

Review of Jennifer Burns's Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (accessible for free)

Reviewed by Robert Mayhew (read by Sean Saulsbury)

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How the Freedom to Contract Protects Insurability (accessible for free)

by Paul Hsieh (read by Sean Saulsbury)

Shows that, contrary to proposals being put forth by Republicans, a genuinely free market in health insurance is not only moral, in that it respects the rights of producers and consumers, but also practical, in that it enables businessmen to solve problems for profit—which leads to more and better products and services at lower prices for consumers. Listen or download.

Altruism: The Moral Root of the Financial Crisis (accessible for free)

by Richard M. Salsman (read by Karl Kowalski)

Zeros in on the fundamental cause of the problem, showing that widespread acceptance of the morality of self-sacrifice necessitated the kinds of laws, regulations, and decisions that have driven the financial markets into the gutter. Listen or download.

Obama’s Atomic Bomb: The Ideological Clarity of the Democratic Agenda (accessible for free)

by John David Lewis (read by Karl Kowalski)

Examines America’s political climate in light of the unmistakably statist agenda emanating from Washington, and finds cause for optimism in the effect Obama is having on the minds of Americans—and cause for activism toward helping Americans to see the proper political alternative: not conservatism but capitalism. Listen or download.

Net Neutrality: Toward a Stupid Internet (accessible for free)

by Raymond C. Niles (read by Karl Kowalski)

Focuses on the principle of property rights as it applies to the Internet in the face of increasing calls for government controls of this, as yet, relatively free market. Listen or download.

Lectures

"No Substitute for Victory": The Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism (accessible for free)

by John David Lewis

This talk consults the historical precedent of American policy towards Shintoism in post-1945 Japan to show that a proper policy today would first identify Islamic Totalitarianism as the cause of the threat facing the West, and then direct American resources toward eliminating the political imposition of Islamic Law. If Americans want to end the threats against their lives and liberty, they must first identify the advocates of political Islam (those who seek to impose Islamic Law by force) as the true enemy, and then destroy that enemy—beginning with the Islamic State of Iran. Listen or download.

“Just War Theory” vs. American Self-Defense (accessible for free)

by Yaron Brook

The Bush administration’s pseudo-war is a self-sacrificial disaster. Nearly five years after President Bush declared “war on terrorism,” victory is nowhere in sight. American soldiers continue to die in Iraq for no clear self-defense purpose, while enemy regimes such as Iran and Saudi Arabia continue to sponsor Islamic terrorism and spread anti-Americanism without fear of reprisal. The cause of America’s continuing insecurity is not any practical inability to defeat our enemies—America can militarily crush any enemy it chooses—but our leaders’ unwillingness to do what is necessary to defeat them. The only path to American security is real war, self-interested war, a war of genuine American self-defense. In this talk, Dr. Brook presents the principles of “Just War Theory,” the altruistic theory guiding the Bush administration’s so-called “War on Terrorism,” and contrasts them with the principles of a proper, moral approach to American self-defense. Listen or download.

Debates

Eminent Domain: To Preserve or To Abolish (accessible for free)

between Jeffrey Finkle and Yaron Brook

Does the government have a moral right to take citizens’ property under certain conditions—or do citizens have an absolute right to their personal property? Does robust economic development require the occasional use of eminent domain—or would economic progress be greater if property rights were upheld as truly inalienable? What are the moral issues involved in eminent domain? What are the practical issues? Are the moral and the practical necessarily at odds—or can they be reconciled? Mr. Finkle and Dr. Brook will present the facts in support of their respective positions. Listen or download.

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