Il y a quarante ans cette semaine, le 16 juillet 1969, à 9 h 32, heure avancée de l'Est, Apollo 11 décollait du Centre spatial Kennedy, en Floride. Quatre ans et demi...
“What is required of us now,” said President Barack Obama in his inaugural speech, “is a new era of responsibility—a recognition, on the....
In December 1989, I stopped in Moscow, on my way to Estonia as part of the first group from the West to hold a conference on free markets in
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More than 200 years ago, Adam Smith determined that economic self-interest advanced the wider commercial good as if led by an invisible hand
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The Declaration of Independence states that the purpose of government is to secure the rights of man. Most Americans know and assent to the
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We can understand why President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress do not want to call their attempts to socialize America’s economy..
Bernard Madoff a plaidé coupable jeudi dernier, le 12 mars, d'avoir mis en place une vaste chaîne de Ponzi qui a escroqué quelque 65 milliards de dollars à des investisseurs. Il a
Winston Churchill famously observed that, “socialism is the equal sharing of misery.” In the same spirit, Democratic presidential candidate
In 1972, just two years after the first Earth Day, a team of scholars from MIT published a 200-page book called The Limits to Growth. Using
The first 2008 presidential election event involving the presumptive nominees, Illinois Democratic Senator Barack Obama and Arizona Republic
H.L. Mencken once wrote that, “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.....
The 9/11 attacks and the subsequent war on Islamic jihadism divided virtually every ideological faction in America. On the far left,
What has prompted people, over the course of three millennia, to look upon work and commerce as degrading and deceitful? Why have they
Les lecteurs d'Atlas Shrugged d'Ayn Rand, qui a notamment présenté l'homme d'affaires américain comme un héros, se demandent sans doute ce qu'il faut en penser.
Ayn Rand published her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged in 1957. It's an enduringly popular novel -- all 1,168 pages of it -- with some 150,000
Les prix du pétrole, de l'essence et du gaz naturel ayant grimpé en flèche au cours de l'année écoulée, de nombreuses personnes ont demandé au gouvernement de prendre des mesures...
Today, we live “in the future”—the future that for decades had been depicted in science fiction, pursued by scientists and engineers, and...
