Meaningful and Vacuous “Privilege” – Article by G. Stolyarov II
G. Stolyarov II December 3, 2013 Recommend this page. ****************************** Sanford Ikeda’s concise and insightful lists of 14 common fallacies about the free market (available in two...
View ArticleLiberally Classical – Article by Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker January 12, 2014 Recommend this page. ****************************** I was recently in an ornate orchestral hall built in the late Gilded Age, a setting designed to present an opera...
View ArticlePutting Innovation to a Vote? Majoritarian Processes versus Open Playing...
G. Stolyarov II February 4, 2014 Recommend this page. ****************************** Putting innovation to a vote is never a good idea. Consider the breakthroughs that have improved our lives the most...
View ArticleMachines vs. Jobs: This Time, It’s Personal – Article by Bradley Doucet
Bradley Doucet February 5, 2014 Recommend this page. ****************************** For much of human history, the vast majority of people worked in agriculture. Today, thanks to the Industrial...
View ArticleMajoritarian Processes versus Open Playing Fields – Video by G. Stolyarov II
Putting innovation to a vote is never a good idea. Consider the breakthroughs that have improved our lives the most during the 20th and early 21st centuries. Did anyone vote for or ordain the creation...
View Article“Exploring Capitalist Fiction”– Allen Mendenhall Interviews Edward W. Younkins
Allen Mendenhall and Edward W. Younkins February 16, 2014 Recommend this page. ****************************** This interview is reprinted with permission from Allen Mendenhall’s blog. Read Mr....
View ArticleHeterogeneity: A Capital Idea! – Article by Sanford Ikeda
Sanford Ikeda June 26, 2014 ****************************** When Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century was released in English earlier this year it sparked vigorous debate on the issue of wealth...
View ArticleThe Single Bullet That Killed 16 Million – Article by Edward Hudgins
Edward Hudgins June 27, 2014 ****************************** A century ago, on June 28, 1914, Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the emperorship of...
View ArticleImmigration to the United States from 1870 to 1920 (2004) – Essay by G....
G. Stolyarov II July 21, 2014 ****************************** Note from the Author: This essay was originally written in 2004 and published in six parts on Associated Content (subsequently, Yahoo!...
View ArticleAnswers to Some Frequently Asked Questions on Road Privatization (2009) –...
G. Stolyarov II Originally Published September 12, 2009 as Part of Issue CCVII of The Rational Argumentator Republished July 24, 2014 ****************************** Note from the Author: This essay...
View ArticleGoogle, Entrepreneurs, and Living 500 Years – Article by Edward Hudgins
Edward Hudgins March 29, 2015 ****************************** “Is it possible to live to be 500?” “Yes,” answers Bill Maris of Google, without qualifications. A Bloomberg Markets piece on “Google...
View ArticleHow Anti-Individualist Fallacies Prevent Us from Curing Death – Article by...
Edward Hudgins July 3, 2015 ****************************** Are you excited about Silicon Valley entrepreneurs investing billions of dollars to extend life and even “cure” death? It’s amazing that such...
View ArticleG. Stolyarov II Interviews Adam Alonzi Regarding Emerging Biotech Research
G. Stolyarov II and Adam Alonzi August 28, 2015 ****************************** On August 23, 2015, Mr. Stolyarov invited Adam Alonzi to share the insights he was able to glean from many recent...
View ArticleApollo 11 on Human Achievement Day – Article by Edward Hudgins
Edward Hudgins ****************************** There are holidays and days of commemoration stretching from New Year’s to Independence Day to Christmas. A new one should be added to the calendar –...
View ArticleA Totalitarian State Can Only Rule a Desperately Poor Society – Article by...
Ryan Miller ****************************** I recently finished Anthem by Ayn Rand. In this short novella she tells the story of Equality 7-2521 (later called Prometheus), a man living in a dystopian...
View ArticleIn Defense of My Participation Trophy – Article by Tricia Beck-Peter
Tricia Beck-Peter ****************************** I have one participation trophy, from a youth soccer league I joined when I was five. I joined the league, not because I aspired to a career of...
View ArticleMy Childhood as a Renegade Entrepreneur – Article by Derek Magill
Derek Magill ****************************** For most of my life I wanted to be a businessman. As early as preschool, I would insist on wearing only business attire to class every day. And by business...
View ArticleHe Was a Middle-School Loan Shark – Article by Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker ****************************** It came out in passing last night, in discussions with a smart 17-year old, that he got in deep trouble in middle school. He was accused of loan...
View ArticleBeginners’ Explanation of Transhumanism – Presentation by Bobby Ridge and...
Bobby Ridge Gennady Stolyarov II Bobby Ridge, Secretary-Treasurer of the U.S. Transhumanist Party, and Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party, provide a broad “big-picture”...
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