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Specialties: Antitrust, Capitalism, Free Market, Free Trade, Business, Environmentalism, Animal "Rights," Individual Rights, FDA, Regulation, Volunteerism, Welfare Programs, Social Security
 Alex Epstein has a BA in Philosophy from Duke University and is a fellow focusing on business issues at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. He was the editor and publisher of The Duke Review for two years. He is a contributing writer for The Objective Standard, a quarterly journal of culture and politics. His Op-Eds have appeared in such publications as the Detroit Free Press, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Sun-Times, Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Arizona Republic, Canada's National Post, Indianapolis Star, Orange County Register, Tampa Tribune, and the Washington Times. Mr. Epstein has been interviewed on numerous nationally syndicated radio programs on business topics such as income inequality, media and internet regulation, oil industry profits, social security and the FDA.
Essays
Op-Eds
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The Problem with Our Health-Care Debate
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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Punishing Google for Its Success
Thursday, June 4, 2009
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What We Owe Our Soldiers
Friday, May 22, 2009
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Misrepresenting "How We Arrived at This Moment"
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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What to Resolve This New Year
Thursday, January 1, 2009
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The Maestro vs. the Market
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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The Meaning of the Right to Vote
Monday, November 3, 2008
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What We Owe Our Soldiers
Monday, November 3, 2008
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Big Business: Home of Individualism
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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Retire Social Security
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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An Open Letter to Borrowers and Lenders: Take Responsibility for Your Decisions
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
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Investigate Big Congress, Not Big Oil
Thursday, May 29, 2008
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Set Yahoo! Free
Monday, May 5, 2008
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Too Big to Bail
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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Project Lifeline: Collaboration or Intimidation?
Monday, March 10, 2008
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"Net Neutrality": Destroyer of Internet Freedom
Thursday, February 28, 2008
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The Meaning of New Year's Resolutions
Friday, January 4, 2008
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The Injustice of "Doing Something" about Subprime
Monday, November 26, 2007
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Don't Save Social Security
Friday, November 9, 2007
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"Open Access" and the Tyranny of the FCC
Monday, October 29, 2007
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Why Businessmen Love Atlas Shrugged
Thursday, October 11, 2007
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Who Really Supports Our Troops?
Thursday, September 27, 2007
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Message to Presidential Candidates: Income Inequality Is Good
Sunday, September 16, 2007
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Celebrating Income Inequality
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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The Religious Right's Culture of Living Death
Thursday, April 19, 2007
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What to Do About Gasoline Prices
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
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How to Truly Support our Troops
Monday, January 15, 2007
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The Terrorists' Motivation: Islam
Monday, September 11, 2006
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A Victory for Big Tobacco--and the Rule of Law
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
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Keep Our "Addiction" to Oil, End Our Allergy to Self-Assertion
Monday, July 10, 2006
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Drop the "Windfall Profits" Smear
Sunday, May 7, 2006
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The Myth of "Price-Gouging"
Friday, April 28, 2006
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"Muslim Opinion" Be Damned
Monday, September 12, 2005
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Israel's Deadly Appeasement Process Continues
Friday, August 26, 2005
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Presumed Guilty
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
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The "Animal Rights" Movement's Cruelty to Humans
Monday, August 15, 2005
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Fight the Root of Terrorism With Bombs, Not Bread
Monday, July 25, 2005
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The Anti-Life Opposition to Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Thursday, May 19, 2005
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A Culture of Living Death
Thursday, March 31, 2005
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The Tyranny of Eminent Domain
Friday, February 18, 2005
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Drug Safety vs. the FDA
Thursday, February 17, 2005
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Social Security is Immoral
Thursday, January 20, 2005
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Environmentalism's Dangerous Campaign for "Safety"
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
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The Meaning of the Right to Vote
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
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World Opinion Be Damned
Friday, June 18, 2004
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Bush's Faith-Based Initiative Is an Assault on the Wall Between Church and State
Monday, June 14, 2004
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The Terror of "Animal Rights"
Monday, February 16, 2004
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Cloning Is Moral
Friday, February 13, 2004
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Cloning Is Moral
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
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The Cost of the "Ethical" Assault on Honest Businessmen
Friday, August 8, 2003
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Peacenik Warmongers
Sunday, January 26, 2003
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Paralyzing America's Producers
Tuesday, October 22, 2002
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Thinking It Alone
Wednesday, October 9, 2002
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The Betrayal of the Bush Doctrine
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
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An Open Letter to CEOs: Defend the Profit Motive-or Perish
Wednesday, August 21, 2002
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No Conflict Between Liberty and Security
Monday, August 5, 2002
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What Is Killing the Stock Market? Government Regulation
Tuesday, July 30, 2002
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The Virtue of "Playing God"
Monday, June 17, 2002
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Bush's Un-American and Immoral Call for "National Service"
Saturday, February 23, 2002
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Unlimited Liability
Sunday, January 6, 2002
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Disband the Coalition
Tuesday, November 13, 2001
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The Conference for Human Extermination
Thursday, June 28, 2001
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The Evil of Animal "Rights"
Saturday, May 19, 2001
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A Feeling Is Not an Argument
Tuesday, April 3, 2001
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Press Releases
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CO2 Restrictions Threaten Human Life
Thursday, April 30, 2009
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Obama Evades Government's Role in the Crisis
Friday, April 10, 2009
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Republican Socialists
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
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Since When Does America Allow Czars?
Thursday, December 11, 2008
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Save the Big Three, Kill the U.S. Auto Market
Thursday, December 4, 2008
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Don't Bail Out U.S. Automakers--Untie Them
Thursday, November 20, 2008
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Drop the SEC Investigation Against Cuban
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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Bush Bails Out Subprime Automakers
Monday, October 6, 2008
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Ayn Rand on Today's Crisis
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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The Monopoly Myth: The Case of Standard Oil
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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Advertisers vs. the Free Market
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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The Attack on Oil Speculators: Shooting the Messenger
Friday, July 11, 2008
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Blame Big Congress, Not Big Oil, For High Prices
Friday, May 30, 2008
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The EU's $2.5 Billion Theft from Microsoft
Thursday, February 28, 2008
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Memo to Gates: The Cause of Third-World Poverty Is Not Capitalism, But a Lack of Capitalism
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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Predatory Legislating
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
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Bailouts in Disguise
Friday, November 9, 2007
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Why Businessmen Love Atlas Shrugged
Thursday, October 11, 2007
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Beware the Environmentalists' Devastating Response to Global Warming
Monday, October 1, 2007
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Reject the Latest Push for Net Neutrality
Thursday, September 27, 2007
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Bush Gets Rights Wrong at UN Speech
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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Reject the "Values Voters'" Culture of Living Death
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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Message to Presidential Candidates: Income Inequality Is Good
Monday, September 24, 2007
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What Not to Do about Subprime Failures
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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HillaryCare 2.0: More of the Poison that Is Killing Our Healthcare System
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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End, Don't Extend, the Persecution of Microsoft
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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Don't Regulate Toy Safety
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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End Government Licensing
Friday, September 14, 2007
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End, Don't Mend, the World Bank
Thursday, September 13, 2007
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How to Truly Defeat OPEC
Thursday, September 13, 2007
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Blame the Government, Not the Market, for Exorbitant Health-Care Costs
Thursday, September 13, 2007
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Reject the Un-American Call for "National Service"
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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"Open-Access" vs. Freedom in the Wireless Industry
Thursday, August 9, 2007
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The Saudi Arms Deal and Our Addiction to American Sacrifice
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
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The "Alternative Energy" Farm Bill Fiasco
Monday, August 6, 2007
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Income Inequality Is Good
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
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Liberate American Energy Producers, Neuter OPEC
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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The Flavor Police
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
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Punishing Wal-Mart's Greatness
Monday, June 18, 2007
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Legalize "Price-Fixing"
Friday, March 23, 2007
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Punishing Wal-Mart's Greatness
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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Abolish the SEC's Investor Wealth Requirement
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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Preventing Mergers Destroys Competition
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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The Iran Evasion
Thursday, February 15, 2007
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The Un-American Opposition to "Income Inequality"
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
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Victory for Big Tobacco Is a Victory for Rule of Law
Thursday, July 6, 2006
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America Is Not "Addicted to Oil"
Thursday, July 6, 2006
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Letters to the Editor
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He's No Rand Disciple
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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Britain Should Start "Easing" Government Stranglehold on the Economy
Sunday, March 8, 2009
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Abolishing the Housing Welfare-regulatory Apparatus
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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HillaryCare 2.0: More of the Poison that Is Killing Our Healthcare System
Thursday, October 4, 2007
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Caps on Fossil Fuels Would Be Devastating
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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To Fix American Healthcare, Get the Government Out of It
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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Goal of Bailout Plans is Unjust, Not Admirable
Sunday, September 23, 2007
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Do Not Ban TV Ads for Toys
Sunday, September 16, 2007
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National Service Is a Recipe for Destroying the American Republic
Monday, September 10, 2007
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Atlas Shrugged and the Pyramid of Ability
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
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Bush's Opposition to Embryonic Stem Cell Research Is Anti-Life
Thursday, July 20, 2006
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There Is No Such thing as Price Gouging by Private Oil Companies
Friday, April 28, 2006
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Faith-Based Initiatives Are an Assault on Secular Government
Tuesday, February 4, 2003
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