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Why Protest Inequality?: Unmasking the Deeper Motivation of the Occupy Movement

Why, in spite of massive evidence that profits motivate entrepreneurs to innovate in ways that enable so many of us…

Progress is Optional

The source of technology and prosperity—the free human mind—is unshackled only under capitalism Would you give up the Internet for…

Campus Media Response: In Celebration of Inequality

In another hard-hitting piece in MIT’s The Tech, Keith Yost responds to the charge, much discussed of late in connection…

Campus Media Response: Capitalism: The Best Foreign Aid There Is

"Food aid policies are in desperate need of reform," reads the subtitle to Harvard student Thomas Hwang's recent article in…

Has the Free Market Failed?

The American economy is in a state of malaise. Stock and real estate prices have plummeted from their peaks in…

Campus Media Response: Who Broke American Healthcare?

Health care reform vital for all Americans Daily Illini University of Illinois Dear Editors, In your recent editorial, “Health care…

Campus Media Response: Jesus Would Support Obamanomics

Would Jesus Be A Capitalist? Emory Wheel Emory University Madam- In your article, “Would Jesus Be A Capitalist?” you describe…

Correcting the Concession of Labor Day

On September 7th Americans observed the holiday known as Labor Day. Many of them, not knowing its origins, enjoyed a…

Putting a Price on Freedom

The debate about today’s increasing push for government expansion focuses exclusively on cost, without evaluating whether such expansion is morally…

What Free Market?

From the beginning, most commentators agreed that this recession was caused by a failure of the free market. But an…