Government And Business

Intellectual Ammunition — Campaign Finance, Cronyism and Inequality

Recently, I debated Professor Rick L. Hasen of UC Irvine School of Law at a Federalist Society event at Southwestern School of Law in LA. The subject was campaign finance law, and Professor Hasen took the opportunity to outline the case he makes in his new book, Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections. From the title, you might guess that he is both not a fan of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision and that he thinks money in politics is leading to a kind of plutocracy, in which the wealthy end up influencing government far out of proportion to everyone else.
Government And Business

The Yaron Brook Show on AM560 The Answer

Did you know that Yaron Brook has a new show that is broadcasted weekly on Saturdays at 4 PM Eastern on AM 560 The Answer in Chicago? He does and in the most recent episode, which was broadcasted on February 20, 2016, Dr. Brook commented on the conflict between Apple and the FBI.
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Join the Conversation on The Yaron Brook Show

The Yaron Brook Show is a radio talk show that offers a perspective on current events informed by Ayn Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism. As an advocate of reason, egoism and laissez-faire capitalism, Yaron Brook holds many views that go against the grain.
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Apply for the Legal Fellows Program at the Ayn Rand Institute

Are you currently enrolled in a JD program? Have you completed the first year of law school? Are you eager to advance Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism in the culture? If you fit the description, then we can offer you the opportunity to take part in ARI’s summer legal fellowship program.

Further Reading

Ayn Rand | 1957
For the New Intellectual

The Moral Meaning of Capitalism

An industrialist who works for nothing but his own profit guiltlessly proclaims his refusal to be sacrificed for the “public good.”
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Ayn Rand | 1961
The Virtue of Selfishness

The Objectivist Ethics

What is morality? Why does man need it? — and how the answers to these questions give rise to an ethics of rational self-interest.
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