Recent Op-Eds

How Government Makes Disasters More Disastrous Tuesday, April 29, 2008 By: Thomas Bowden Set Yahoo! Free Tuesday, April 29, 2008 By: Alex Epstein The Danger of Environmentalism (Las Vegas Review Journal, Calgary Herald, El Nuevo Herald) Friday, April 18, 2008 By: Michael S. Berliner Life And Taxes (Forbes.com) Thursday, April 17, 2008 By: Yaron Brook The Real Meaning of Earth Hour (Owen Sound Sun Times) Monday, April 14, 2008 By: Keith Lockitch  RSS

For all ARI articles on current events, visit our Media section.

 
Yaron Brook at Forbes.com

• Life and Taxes
  April 17, 2008
  Message to our presidential candidates: Free us from our tax code, don't just add more pages.
• War on Free Political Speech
  March 21, 2008
  If we want a truly level playing field in this fall's campaign, abolish campaign finance laws.
• To Stimulate the Economy,
  Liberate It
  February 14, 2008
  Pumping more money into Americans' hands won't free them from their bonds.
• The Right Vision of Health Care
  January 8, 2008
  Even Republican reformers just aren't getting it right.
• Predatory Legislating
  December 4, 2007
  Congress is about to do for the subprime industry what its Sarbanes-Oxley legislation has done for the securities industry.

And don't miss Forbes's coverage of ARI in their article "Atlas Shrugs Again."

ARI Staff Writers in The Objective Standard

• "The Morality of Moneylending: A Short History," by Yaron Brook
• "Neoconservative Foreign Policy: An Autopsy," by Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein
• "'Just War Theory' vs. American Self-Defense," by Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein
• "The 'Forward Strategy' for Failure," by Yaron Brook and Elan Journo
• "Exposing Anti-Muslim 'Conspiracies'," by Elan Journo
• "The Jihad on America," by Elan Journo 

ARI Staff Interviewed in EdNews
 

ARI awards $81,250 in prize money each year to the winners of its essay contests. The following contests are available:

• Atlas Shrugged
  For College Students and graduating high school students
  Entry deadline: Sept. 17, 2008
• The Fountainhead
  For 11th & 12th graders
  Winners to be announced in July 2008
• Anthem
  For 9th & 10th graders
  Winners to be announced in July 2008

Video Commentary
"Your Child Is Not State Property"
By Thomas A. Bowden

Radio Interviews with Our Writers and Speakers

Yaron Brook on
ARI's Cultural Impact

Yaron Brook on Capitalism
(Q-&-A excerpt series) 
Full series available on YouTube. This question addresses how interest rates would be set without a Federal Reserve.

Reason vs. Faith
(Q-&-A excerpt series)
Full series available on YouTube. This question discusses the roles of reason and faith in Western civilization.

Leonard Peikoff—
Philosophical Q&As

Leonard Peikoff now podcasts through his Web site his answers to selected philosophical questions which he receives by e-mail. New podcasts are available every other Monday, and occasionally every Monday. 

An Introduction to Objectivism

View streaming video of Leonard Peikoff's 1995 lecture "An Introduction to Objectivism."

Other Video & Audio Highlights

The Threat of Totalitarian Islam
A panel discussion featuring Yaron Brook, Victor Davis Hanson, and Daniel Pipes, recorded April 29, 2008, at the University of California, Berkeley.

Why Unregulated Capitalism Is the Only Moral Social System
A talk delivered by Yaron Brook on April 14, 2008, at the University of California, Irvine.

The Morality of Capitalism
A talk given by Yaron Brook on April 3, 2008, at Chapman University.

ARI Events Thursday, May 22, 2008 The Morality of Capitalism By Eric Daniels Costa Mesa, California June 28 through July 6, 2008 Objectivist Summer Conference 2008 Newport Beach, California