180 Articles tagged with: Elections and Democracy

• The Classic Path to the Inevitable Result: Venezuela Succumbs to Dictatorship

  This week, the opposition forces in Venezuela are still in the streets, struggling with government forces, to protest last week’s lurch of Socialist President Nicolas Maduro’s government toward dictatorship. Thousands of people blocked the mai… Read Article

• Still Waiting, with Ayn Rand, for America To Become “Intellectually Polarized”

  Has the United States become truly and thoroughly “polarized”? Two camps (very broadly speaking) face each other with extreme positions, implacable in their intent to defeat the other, incapable of tolerance for the opposing view, and screamin… Read Article

• Watergate Reruns: The Campaign to Overturn the Election

  What I call the “Not Our President Elite” (NOPE) believes that a frighteningly ignorant, bigoted, and distinctly inferior America—not the America of NOPE—elected Donald Trump. Defeated in the election, not only for President, but for contr… Read Article

• Isn’t $1.9 Trillion A Year Lost to Federal Regulations Enough?

  If and when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump finish sparring over personal health, illicit emails, and Vladimir Putin’s qualities as a leader, we can hope they will address the fundamental choice that faces the Amer… Read Article

• How Hungarian Milk Explains Brexit

  A conversation I had a dozen years ago in Hungary about that country’s milk helps explain why the British voted to leave the European Union.

  As part of the Hungarians’ efforts to transform their economy after communism, they planned to… Read Article

• A Tale of Two Sanders

  It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of individualism, it was the age of collectivism. It was the epoch of personal achievement, it was the epoch of unearned entitlement. This describes the schism between two Sanders… Read Article

• Ayn Rand Explains Trump and the Refusal to Think

  People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some form of instinct, they feel they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who … Read Article

• Krugman gets Rand Right

  Let’s hear it for Paul Krugman! He got Ayn Rand’s views right for once.

  This is a big step forward, since he hasn’t always done well by Rand. Still, he managed to get Republicans wrong, so our cheers should be muted.

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• Is America Socialist?

  If you use Social Security are you a socialist? All Americans use it. Is America socialist?

  Well, Social Security is a socialist program.

  But being forced to use a socialist program doesn’t make one a socialist. A socialist,… Read Article

• How to Counter Socialists about Social Security

  Five years ago at the hospital, the joy of holding my newborn daughters in my arms was momentarily disrupted when I was asked to free up a hand to fill out the forms for their Social Security cards. This memory came flooding back when I encountered … Read Article

• Hudgins addresses Liberty Forum

  Today The Atlas Society's Ed Hudgins addressed Liberty Forum in New Hampshire. Ed spoke on "Seizing the Moral High Ground to Defeat the Statists."

  “In this election year, seizing the moral high ground is more important than ever," Ed exp… Read Article

• The Supreme Court, Scalia, and Restoring the Constitution


  Antonin Scalia is dead. Will the Constitution die with him?

  The passing of this conservative Supreme Court Justice has set off a political firestorm in a year already burning with conflict. GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell is vowing not t… Read Article

• Bernie Sanders and "selfishness"

  Ed Hudgins weighs in on some of Bernie Sander's stances. "Bernie Sanders is on a jihad against 'extremely greedy and selfish financiers'" says Ed. "But is he a major enabler of greed? After all, he wants to force those struggling to build small bu… Read Article

• TAS on BBC radio Wed morning

  Tune in to BBC radio tomorrow morning, Wednesday December 9, to hear Ed Hudgins weigh in on Donald Trump's campaign and the Republican nomination process.

  Update: For those who missed the live broadcast, we'll be posting the recorded aud… Read Article

• The Fourth GOP Debate: Sounding a Small Techno-Future Note

  The fourth GOP presidential primary debate is worth noting in part because Marco Rubio sounded a note on the topic of our techno-future, which should be a central theme for all the candidates. Sadly, the note did not grow into a symphony.

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• Legal Activism: We can't make an example of this man

  This talk explores “judicial activism” and the application of protesting law in the courts. George Lambert recounts his experiences as a legislator fighting bad laws in the legislature, the executive branch, and the courts, in an attempt to br… Read Article

• C-SPAN interview on Atlas Society book now available online

  If you missed the recent airing of CSPAN's interview with Ed Hudgins on The Atlas Society book The Republican Party's Civil War: Will Freedom Win?, you can watch the archived version here. … Read Article

• The First 2015 Democrat Debate: Ignorance Wins

  The audience for the first Democratic presidential primary debate was not just the party faithful. It was the low-information voters. And ignorance won, not Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.

  The Democrats' more money mantra

  All of the ca… Read Article

• Interpreting the Constitution

  How does one determine the meaning of a 200+ year-old document? Does it mean what it was understood to mean in the 18th century? Or what it is understood to mean today? Or what the morally best reading would be?

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• Civil War within the GOP

  In New Hampshire—the primo primary state!—the Republican Liberty Caucus’s annual conference is a battlefield in the civil war within the GOP. With over 700 activists attending, does this indicate that the liberty faction is winning in the ba… Read Article