 $190 Billion of Evil
by Jeff Landauer
Yesterday, president Bush signed into law the biggest farm subsidy and price support bill in US history that will cost $190 billion dollars over 10 years. (Read more...)
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Creativity and Logic
by Joseph Rowlands
The word “creative” has a very strange usage these days. Young children are called creative when they scribble with crayons. Modern “artists” are considered creative when they spew out unrecognizable garbage. What's the theme? What are they getting at? (Read more...)
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PI Editorial, Tues, May 7
by Lindsay Perigo
In two respects at least, New Zealand is currently providing object lessons for the rest of the world & comic relief for those few of its own citizens whose gray matter is habitually active. (Read more...)
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Solo Conference Testimonials
by Various Authors
Feedback from the first SOLO conference in Waitomo Caves Hotel, New Zealand. (Read more...)
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 Starship Astronaut the Rational Egoist
by Monart Pon
Starship is the integration of artistry and machinery created by man's science, technology, and philosophy for generating, sustaining, and enhancing the rational, continually growing life that reaches from Earth and Sun to flourish in Free Space, among the stars. (Read more...)
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A Nineties Dropout - An Interview of Lindsay Perigo by Bruce Jesson
by Lindsay Perigo
An interview by me of Lindsay Perigo could possibly have been a cantankerous affair. It would be hard to imagine two people more dissimilar politically. Perigo believes in individualism and capitalism, and is an advocate of Ayn Rand's theory of Objectivism; whereas I am known for my socialism. (Read more...)
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A Personal Statement
by Lindsay Perigo
The IOS was about to become my new employer — David had offered me an exciting new position there which I was due to take up on June 1. (Read more...)
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Bill Gates: Hero, Coward
by David C. Adams
Is there any hope? The historic antitrust suit against Microsoft is about to resume, and it seems a sure bet that the ill-named Department of Justice will have its way. The ever-eager fist of the state, fed by envy, shall crush a tall poppy for its crime of growing so high so fast. What can we conclude? Such is the dour fate of those who succeed today. Such is the hope for re-establishing the freedom which has enriched the world. Down the dark pit we fall. (Read more...)
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Civilisation under siege
by Peter Cresswell
This was a declaration of war - but a declaration by whom, and against what? (Read more...)
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Rugby Rules No More!
by Peter Cresswell
I want you to consider a very important question tonight, the answer to which could affect the fortunes of this country for some time to come. In fact, even as we ourselves speak here tonight, the question is being urgently debated up and down the country. The question is this: Does anyone here tonight understand the tackled ball law? (Read more...)
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The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
Living in New York City, it is totally impossible not to be caught up in the various tribal battles that take place on an almost daily basis. In fact, the tribalism affects every aspect of life, especially politics. (Read more...)
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Violence, Virtue and Vice
by Larry Sechrest
In and of itself, violence is, and can only be, morally neutral. What imbues violent acts with the glory of morality or the taint of immorality is the motive of the acting person in the given situation. (Read more...)
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There Will be "A Great Debate"
by Tibor R. Machan
In a recent column of his in USA Today, Walter Shapiro intones as follows: "The unseemly haste of the tax-cut drive brings with it a little-noticed cost: the elimination of a full-throated national debate over how best to use the anticipated budget surplus." (Read more...)
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