A week ago, Dr. Yaron Brook, current president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, and Dr. Dan Slater of the University’s political science department debated the proposition that America has no obligation to provide foreign aid. Brook controversially argued not simply that past foreign aid has filled the coffers of dictators and failed...

The Federal Trade Commission subpoenaed U.S. oil companies in a gasoline probe following defiant testimony by oil executives answering angry calls by Republicans and Democrats alike for an explanation of record profits reported after Hurricane Katrina. As popular as it might be to publicly berate wealthy corporate CEOs for ‘price gouging’ at a time when...

The recent nomination of arch conservative judge ‘Scalito’ to the Supreme Court coupled with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s failure to indict Rove, Cheney, Bush and the entire Republican Party for the war in Iraq has pushed liberals beyond the limits of even their usual psychosis. Having never actually recovered from their post election catatonia, Democrats...

Although many Democrats will likely never emerge from their post-election catatonia, those who do must either face the growing need to redefine their party’s platform or reconcile themselves to the fate of history’s many dodo birds. Radicals can continue to insist that the war in Iraq is doomed to failure, that Bush’s pro-growth economic policy...