Who is Ayn Rand? 04 Jun 2010 Charles Murray A review of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, by Jennifer Burns and Ayn Rand and the World She Made, by Anne C. Heller
(From The Freeman, September 1997, Vol.47, No.9, pp.558-563.)
The name of the eminent Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises does not commonly arise in feminist circles which tend to view the free market as an institution through which men as a class oppress women as a class. If the subject of Mises ever did arise, the political incorrectness of his observations on [read more]
(This is the text of a speech presented at the 20th Anniversary World Libertarian Conference hosted by the International Society for Individual Liberty in London, Ontario. July 2000)
My general topic this afternoon is how to construct a grass-roots movement on the Internet and the specific example I'll be using is ifeminists.com -- a web site that serves as a portal [read more]
Contined from Part One
As suffrage increased in popularity and attracted ideologically diverse women, Stanton and other leaders began to compromise subsidiary issues. Feminism employed blatantly white supremacist arguments to further suffrage, pointing out that white women would add to the white vote since they were more likely to vote than minority women.
This argument was adapted to counter the fear of [read more]
(The following essay by Wendy McElroy is from a chapter of her book Sexual Correctness, published by McFarland & Co.)
Sexual correctness is a dogma that permits no dissent. Gender feminists have no scruples about silencing and dismissing the voices of women who disagree. Thus--though individualist feminism is a rich tradition with deep roots in American history--it is virtually ignored. This [read more]
Excerpted from Freedom, Feminism, and the State, published by The Independent Institute, 100 Swan Way, Oakland, California, 94621-1428.
"To me," wrote Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912), "any dependence, any thing which destroys the complete selfhood of the individual, is in the line of slavery."(1)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) wrote: "To define individual duty is difficult; but the collective duty of a [read more]
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