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Specialties: Oil, Energy, Morality of Capitalism, Antitrust, Capitalism, Free Market, Free Trade, Business
 Alex Epstein is a fellow focusing on business issues at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. He is the author of numerous articles on oil and energy, including, most recently: “Energy at the Speed of Thought: The Original Alternative Energy Industry.” His op-eds have appeared in such publications as the Detroit Free Press, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Times, and Investor’s Business Daily. Mr. Epstein is a frequent speaker at universities around the country, a frequent guest on nationally-syndicated radio programs, as well as a guest panelist on the popular Front Page with Allen Barton show on PJTV.com. Mr. Epstein is an alumnus of Duke University, where he studied philosophy and computer science.
Essays
Op-Eds
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Get Real, Bernanke Didn't "Save" Our Economy
Thursday, January 28, 2010
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Person of the Year? How About Spinmeister of the Year?
Monday, December 21, 2009
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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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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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