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Spring 2008

Too Big to Bail

Every few days we hear that another leading financial institution has written down billions more on subprime investments gone bad.…

A Little Change Means a Lot

Opponents of embryonic stem cell research often highlight the similarities between babies, fetuses, and embryos, and dismiss the obvious difference…

Two Articles on Ayn Rand in Student Papers

Two articles published in the last two days, in major university papers, discuss Ayn Rand's ideas. The first, printed in…

Wafa Sultan’s Moral Certainty

Rule of Reason links to a new video in which Wafa Sultan debates Egyptian Islamist Tal’at Rmeih on an Al-Jazeera…

Scrap Scrabulous

Scrabulous, a virtual knockoff of the board game Scrabble, has become one of the most popular Facebook games. According to…

Uncle Sam Wants You … to Sacrifice

Barack Obama's wife, Michelle Obama, recently offered some advice to Americans: We left corporate America, which is a lot of…

Damning With Faint Praise

Criticizing Senator Obama's pledge to meet with foreign dictators should he be elected President, President Bush said Thursday: What's lost…