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Capital, Capitalists and Capitalism (Part I)
Introduction: It is difficult to think of terms in the realm of political economy that are less understood and more controversial than capital, capitalist, and capitalism. For the political right,...
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Capital, Capitalists and Capitalism (Part II)
Editor’s note: The following is the second installment of the FrontPage series “Capital, Capitalists and Capitalism” by Dr. Mark Hendrickson. For Part I, click here. Capitalist. “A person who has...
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Capital, Capitalists and Capitalism (Part III)
Editor’s note: The following is the third installment of the FrontPage series “Capital, Capitalists and Capitalism” by Dr. Mark Hendrickson. Click the following for Part I and Part II. Capitalism....
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Capital, Capitalists and Capitalism (Part IV)
Editor’s note: The following is the fourth installment of the FrontPage series “Capital, Capitalists and Capitalism” by Dr. Mark Hendrickson. Click the following for Part I, Part II and Part III. In...
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Capital, Capitalists and Capitalism (Part V)
Editor’s note: The following is the fifth installment of the FrontPage series “Capital, Capitalists and Capitalism” by Dr. Mark Hendrickson. Click the following for Part I, Part II, Part III and Part...
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Capital, Capitalists and Capitalism (Part VI)
Editor’s note: The following is the sixth, and final, installment of the FrontPage series “Capital, Capitalists and Capitalism” by Dr. Mark Hendrickson. Click the following for Part I, Part II, Part...
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Health Care Solutions: Patients in Command
In a scene from the movie “Monty Python’s Meaning of Life,” a pregnant woman in labor is seen being wheeled down hospital corridors at freeway speeds, with the bumpers of the gurney crashing through...
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Bono: Capitalism Works
Speaking at Georgetown University earlier this year, renowned rocker Bono, who has also become well-known for his push for aid to Africa, explained that the only way for the continent to rise from...
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How Pension Plans Beguiled Us
Having a pension plan has been part of the American Dream for millions of workers. Put in thirty or thirty-five years with a company, retire, and then the company will send you a check every month for...
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Barack Obama and the Bad Ideas of Progressivism
Barack Obama’s serial gross incompetence has elicited all sorts of explanatory theories. He’s a closet socialist, an Alinskyite radical, a secret Muslim, or an anti-American internationalist. Though...
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ObamaCare’s Liberal Greed
Oliver Stone made Gordon Gekko and his famous quote “Greed is Good” into everything that was wrong with capitalism. A quarter of a century later, liberal politicians like Obama and Bill de Blasio are...
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Why Is the Pay So Lousy?
Even if you’re lucky enough to have a job in the Sarbanes-Oxley-Dodd-Frank-Bernanke-Sebelius-Obamacare economy, and even if you’ve beaten the 31-year record and are still part of the 62.8% of American...
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Only Capitalism Can Fix Obama’s Socialist Website
Every leader has his great challenge. FDR had WW2. JFK had a trip to the moon. Ronald Reagan had the Cold War. George W. Bush had 9/11. Barack Obama has a website. ObamaCare loyalists are calling the...
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The Pope and Capitalism
Pope Francis, in his apostolic exhortation, levied charges against free market capitalism, denying that “economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater...
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Our Ideologically Biased Language
From Barack Obama to Pope Francis, the subject of “income inequality” has been rolling off of the tongues of some of the planet’s most visible figures over the last couple of weeks. The former went so...
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The Festival of Dangerous Ideas
“America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics,” wrote David Simon, author and creator of the gritty television crime drama The Wire, in a...
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A New “Animal Farm” Targets Capitalism
Actor Andy Serkis is set to direct an upcoming movie adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel Animal Farm. But there will be a slight deviation from the story’s original focus: rather than serve as...
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Immigrant Taxi Drivers Targeted in De Blasio’s New York
Now that Mayor Bill de Blasio has taken office, he can reassure the nervous business community by curbing some of the election rhetoric, which some among his supporters have taken to new levels. Mayor...
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Leftists Love Global Warming Because They Hate the Middle Class
This week, Secretary of State John Kerry announced to a group of Indonesian students that global warming was “perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.” He added, “Because of...
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Ignoring Hip-Hop Ensures a Democratic President in 2016
[This is the third part of Ronn Torossian's three-part series on why hip-hop and Jay-Z are worthy of America's respect. To read part 1, click here, for part 2, click here.] Wise conservatives might ask...
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