Keith Lockitch
Keith Lockitch is a junior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, CA. The Institute promotes the ideas of Ayn Rand--best-selling author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead and originator of the philosophy of Objectivism.
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Articles by Keith Lockitch
March 26, 2009
On Saturday, March 28, cities around the world will turn off their lights to observe "Earth Hour." Iconic landmarks from the Sydney Opera House to Manhattan´s skyscrapers will be darkened to encourage reduced energy use and signal a commitment to fighting climate change.
While a one-hour bl...
February 27, 2009
Green energy policies would hobble the economy.
Will a green energy industry be an engine of economic growth? Many want us to think so, including our new President. Apparently a booming green economy with millions of new jobs is just around the corner. All we need is the right mix of governmen...
October 16, 2007
It is no surprise to find environmentalists condemning consumers who "buy green"--because, at root, environmentalists are against buying anything.
It isn't news that environmentalism has gone mainstream in a big way--with organic food in every grocery store, hybrid cars on every freeway, and ev...
September 03, 2007
Environmentalist ideology demands opposition to DDT despite the millions of malaria deaths its use could prevent.
This September marks the 45th anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson's anti-pesticide manifesto credited with inspiring the environmentalist movement.
Bu...
June 01, 2007
Carson's environmental ideology demands opposition to DDT despite the millions of malaria deaths its use could prevent.
On May 27, environmentalists will celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Rachel Carson, the founding mother of their movement.
But Carson's centenary is no...
April 04, 2007
How the calculation of Easter's date reflects a centuries-long battle between faith and reason.
In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII established our modern calendar and fixed the rules determining the date of Easter. This year Easter falls on April 8, but it can shift from year to year by as much as a mo...
September 21, 2006
Opposition to birth control is an assault on the pursuit of happiness.
Religious conservatives are increasingly opposing birth control. The Bush administration has shifted funding from sex education endorsing condoms to programs preaching "abstinence only." And Bush F.D.A. appointees spent three...
September 15, 2006
Environmental ideology demands opposition to DDT despite the millions of malaria deaths its use could prevent.
The World Health Organization has announced that it will encourage the use of DDT to fight malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that kills a million people a year. This announcement is a p...
September 08, 2006
Our leaders have failed to answer the evil moral ideal of Islamic totalitarianism with a rational ideal of our own.
Five years into our "war on terror," the Iraqi insurgency is raging, with no apparent end to the new recruits eager to wage jihad against the West. Support for offensive action ha...
December 21, 2005
A judge in Dover, PA, has ruled that "it is unconstitutional to teach intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom"--on the grounds that "intelligent design is a religious view." Advocates of "intelligent design" are outraged; the Discovery Institute, the le...
September 26, 2005
Eighty years after the famous Scopes "Monkey" Trial, the anti-evolution forces have regrouped. Today, the battle in Dover, Pennsylvania, is over the teaching of "intelligent design," the view that life is so complex it must be the product of a "higher intelligence." The central issue under debate is...
September 01, 2005
Our leaders have failed to answer the evil moral ideal of totalitarian Islam with a rational ideal of our own.
Four years into our "war on terror," the Iraqi insurgency is raging, with no apparent end to the new recruits eager to wage jihad against the West. Support for offensive action is fading...