A film version of Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged, is going to be released on April 15. Given the size of the novel, this movie is not going to cover it all. Two more parts are planned.
For those of us who live in
Socialism 
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The Poor
Socialists commonly cite the existence of the poor as a reason for socialism, and they claim that their concern for the poor shows compassion and morality. Since the topic of poverty is a key battleground in the
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Classical Liberalism and Property
Human society is an association of persons for cooperative action. As against the isolated action of individuals, cooperative action on the basis of the principle of the division of labor has the advantage of greater productivity. If a number of
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Carter’s Energy Fascism
Several months into his new administration, President Carter was worried. Oh, his image with the public was doing just fine: the cardigan sweater, the phone-ins, the fireside chats, had raised his personal popularity to stratospheric heights. Image
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A Capitalist Manifesto
June 1969 • Volume: 19 • Issue: 6 • The Freeman
Mr. Chamberlin is a skilled observer and reporter of economic and political conditions at home and abroad. In addition to writing a number of books, he
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The Legacy of Marx
The Freeman - March, 1986
A number of women (and men) have recently been contending that women who are just as productive as men are being employed on the average for only about 70 percent as much pay, and
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Corporatism, Then and Now
I’ve just finished reading “The Myth of the New Deal” by Ronald Radosh. This essay appears in A New History of Leviathan, a collection of essays edited by Murray Rothbard and Ronald Radosh. It is free to download from Mises.org.
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