individual rights
Ending the Debt Draft: Don Watkins Speaks out about the Welfare State’s Burden on Young People
The Undercurrent is sponsoring a debate between Watkins and Howard Schweber (of the University of Wisconsin and The Huffington Post)…
Freedom Means The Right to Make the Wrong Choice: The Case against Drug War Paternalism
So long as a person does not hurt anyone through the use of force, his decision to use a given…
Announcing TU’s Spring 2014 Campaign Event! A Debate entitled, “Is the Welfare State Just?”
Best-selling author and Fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, Don Watkins, will debate UW-Madison political scientist, Howard Schweber, on the…
Unlearning Individualism: The Lessons of Compulsory Education
Requiring people to attend school, over and against their (and their family’s) wishes teaches students that they should not trust…
Restore the Separation of State and School
When government involves itself in the production of knowledge, it curtails both our liberty to express our beliefs and our…
Can We Revive the American Dream through Majority Rule?
The Occupy Wall Street protesters claim that the American Dream has been hijacked by the financiers of Wall Street and…
Campus Media Response: Human Rights: Exclusively Human
According to Bolivian President Evo Morales' "Law of the Rights of Mother Earth," your right to life should be defended…
More Money, Fewer Rights?
During debate over the recent tax bill, many people complained bitterly about the idea of allowing the wealthiest taxpayers to…
Stimulus Doesn’t Stimulate, It Redistributes
As the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act continues to pour massive amounts of stimulus money into the economy, some European…
Campus Media Response: What Violates a Right?
In a recent article entitled "Investing in Evil" University of Chicago student Craig Johnson condemns his college for sanctioning investment…