Peter Schwartz
Peter Schwartz is a Distinguished Fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, California. The Institute promotes Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand -- author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.
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Articles by Peter Schwartz
April 04, 2007
Income inequality, in a free market, represents something good; the campaign against it rests on the egalitarian view that the most able should not be permitted to surpass the least able.
The issue of income inequality reveals one of the ugliest aspects of today's culture. The ugliness stems no...
July 18, 2006
America helped empower Hezbollah, by confusing the idea of freedom, which rests on the principle of inalienable individual rights, with the idea of democracy, which rests on the principle of unlimited majority rule.
Hezbollah, which has been waging war on Israel, and America, for years, is th...
May 03, 2006
The concept of freedom rests on a government limited to the protection of individual rights, while the concept of democracy rests on a government run by unlimited majority rule; we need to stop confusing these two opposite ideas.
America's foreign policy has led to a bizarre contradiction. Presi...