David Holcberg

 

Specialties: Capitalism, Free Market, Free Trade, Environmentalism, Foreign Policy, Individual Rights and Property Rights, Islamic Terrorism

David Holcberg David Holcberg has a degree in civil engineering from Universidade Mackenzie (Sao Paulo, Brazil). He is a media research and Op-Ed specialist at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. His Op-Eds and letters to the editor have been published in the top newspapers in the United States, including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, New York Post, New York Daily News, Washington Post, Washington Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Houston Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Orange County Register, Philadelphia InquirerMiami Herald, Dallas Morning News, Denver Post, and Detroit News. Mr. Holcberg’s articles have also been published in major magazines such as Newsweek, The Economist, U.S. News and World Report, and in the most influential newspapers around the world, including the Financial Times, the U.K. Daily Telegraph, the U.K. Daily Express, the London Observer, Canada’s National Post, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, Australia’s Herald Sun, the International Herald Tribune, and the South China Morning Post.

Op-Eds

To Save Lives, Legalize Trade in Organs

Who Is Gouging Whom?

To Save Lives, Legalize Trade in Organs

The Anti-Life Opposition to Embryonic Stem Cell Research

The Morality of Genetic Engineering

Deregulation--Or Reregulation?

Why Greens Are to Blame for Blackouts

Letters to the Editor

Government Found Guilty of Assaulting the Economy

Free Market Policies Needed to Solve the Crisis

Protect Citizens

Repeal the Endangered Species Act

Taking Trans Fats off the Menu

Let Mergers Take Place

The Right to Sell and Use "Medical" Marijuana

Taxpayers Shouldn't Be Forced to Subsidize Farmers

Minimum Wage Violates Rights

No Bailouts for Borrowers or Lenders

Colombia Doesn't Need a Free-trade Agreement to Get Rid of its Self-destructive Tariffs

Is It Fair to Charge More for Better Service?

McCain-Feingold Violates Right to Free Speech

Exxon vs. Chavez

Tax Credits for Education

Concern for Whales Should Not Stop Navy from Using Sonar

DDT Foes Disregard Human Life

The Price of Labor

"Net Neutrality" Has No Place in a Free Market

To Save Lives, Legalize Trade in Organs

FCC Should Eliminate All Restrictions on Media Concentration

Rent Control Has No Place in a Free Society

No Right to Health Care at Other People's Expense

No Bailouts for Homeowners or Lenders

To Improve Students Education, Set Their Parents Free

Bush Gets Rights Wrong at UN Speech

Not Attacking Iran Would Be Catastrophic

Immoral Rules of Engagement

A World "Without Us" Is the Endgame of Environmentalism

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Experimental Drugs

In Defense of Industrial Civilization

Government Should Not Interfere with Whole Foods' Acquisition of Wild Oats

The Right to Produce and Consume "Medical" Marijuana

Court Rejects Right to Life of the Terminally Ill

Taxpayers Have NO Obligation to Provide Health Coverage for Uninsured Children

Walter Reed Shows Danger of Government-Run Health Care

Building Restrictions Violate Property Rights

Terrorists are Motivated by their Religious Ideology

Attacking Iran Is Not an "Act of Madness"

The Oil Price Trajectory

Sword of Damocles

Smoking Ban vs. Property Rights

Blame Environmentalism for Malaria Deaths

Bush Should Protect American Assets in Venezuela

End Rent Control

Keep the Lights On

The True Nature and Purpose of Capitalism

Manufacturers Should Be Free to Set Their Pricing Policies

Government Has No Business Banning Plastic Bags

Lenders Are Damned If They Lend--and Damned If They Don't

Sanctions Against Iran Won't Work

FCC Has No Right to Block the Merger of Sirius and XM Satellite Radio

No Right to Health Care at the Expense of Others

No Right to Cheap Car Rentals

"Net Neutrality" Has No Place in a Free Market

Legalize Trade in Human Organs

New York Has No Right to Ban Trans Fats

Allow Organ Sales

NO Restraint Against Islamic Totalitarians

Israel Should Escalate War Against Hezbollah

Oil Companies Should Not Apologize for Their Record Profits

World Leaders Should Support Israel's Offensive

Lebanon's Government Has No Legitimacy

Bush's Opposition to Embryonic Stem Cell Research Is Anti-Life

Israel Should Wage a Real War

Israel Should Wage War on Palestinians

No Incentives for Iran

France vs. Apple's Rights

Israel Should Not Apologize for Targeting Terrorists

Minimum Wage Should Be Repealed

Yes to Drilling in ANWR

"Price Gouging" Can't Be Objectively Defined--and Should Not Be a Crime

How Oil Companies Use Their Profits Is Their Own Business

U.S. Is Right To Cut Aid To Palestinian Government

Oprah Is Right to Reject Unearned Guilt

South Park and the Muhammad Cartoons

Borders' Capitulation is a Victory for Islamic Totalitarians

Canada is Right to Suspend All Assistance to the Palestinian Authority

Vital Organs

Wal-Mart Should Not Be Barred from the Banking Business

Indecency Fines Against CBS Are an Ominous Attack on Free Speech

To the Producer of Friday's "FOX 11 Ten O'Clock News" and the Station Management:

The Cartoon Riots

Western Nations Should Not Tolerate Calls for the Murder of Their Citizens

Muhammad Cartoons

Stop the Negotiations with Iran and Start the Military Campaign

Ayn Rand's Ideas Are Priceless

Science and Religion Are Incompatible

Ayn Rand Stood for Reason and a Government to Protect Individual Rights

Oil Companies Have a Right to Their Profits

The Right to Leave the Transplant List

U.S. Should Eliminate All Barriers to Free Trade

What Government Should Do to Bring Down Gas Prices

U.S. Must Stop Iran from Developing Nuclear Weapons

G8 Aids Terrorism

From the Camel's Mouth

Senators Were Right To Reject Limits on Carbon Dioxide Emissions

"Public" Use vs. Property Rights

Supreme Court Deals a New Blow to Property Rights

U.S. Should Welcome Cuban Escapees

Supreme Court vs. The Right to Grow and Consume Marijuana

Oriana Fallaci and Freedom of Speech

U.S. Should Support Taiwan's Independence

Drilling in ANWR

Kick the U.N. out of New York

Good Riddance Arafat!

The Inventors Were Great, But They Weren't 'Selfless'

What Government Can Do to Reduce Gasoline Prices

Whales vs. Humans

Our Irrational Enemies and their Sympathizers

An Individual's Income Is 100% His Private Property

Do Not to Negotiate with Iran's Mullahs--Eliminate Them

Use of Force Against Iran Should Not Be Excluded

Failure to Prevent 9/11 Not a Lack of Imagination but of Cognition

9/11 Commission Right About Preemption

Iran Now Presents the Greater Danger

All Trade Is Fair

U.N.'s Moral Bankruptcy Is Exemplified by Sudan

FDA vs. Freedom

American Athletes Should Show Pride Not Humility

U.S. Should Get Out of the U.N.

Draft Negates the Right to Life

Israel's Targeted Killing of Hamas Leader Justified

European Union's Assault on Microsoft Is Immoral

Israel's Targeted Killing of Sheikh Yassin Justified

The Urgent Need for Preemption

Israel's Enemies Are America's Enemies

Children Should Not Recite the Pledge of Allegiance

Attacks On Outsourcing Have No Legitimate Basis

New Iraqi Constitution Must Separate State and Islam

Get Rid of the National Endowment for the Arts

Government Should Not Finance Art

Afghan Constitution Should Include Separation of State and Religion

U.S. Should not Help Victims of Iran's Earthquake

Greens vs. Humanity

Abetting Civilization's Enemies

Democrats Couldn't Care Less About America's Security

Powell Recommends Appeasement Towards Terrorism

Kill--Don't Expel--Arafat

Ayn Rand Still Influential

Palestinian Terrorists Are America's Enemies

What Israel Should Do About Terrorism

Blackouts Are a Sign of Environmentalist Danger

Bush's Misguided Criticism of Israel's Security Fence

The Difference Between ELF and Mainstream Environmentalists

What Palestinians Deserve

Bush Wrong on Release of Palestinian Terrorists

Why Leftists Favor and Conservatives Meekly Oppose Going to Liberia

U.S. Should Not Send Back Cuban Refugees

Support General Strike in Iran

What to Do with Hamas

America's Failed Education System

No Moral Equivalency Between Israelis and Palestinians

Palestinians' Reaction to Road Map

Road Map Is a Mistake

U.S. Should Not Spend Money to Fight AIDS Abroad

Bombing in Saudi Arabia

Sodomy Laws Are an Attack on Freedom

Iraqis Have No Right to a Dictatorship

No Human Rights in Cuba

Newt Gingrich's Justified Criticism of the State Department

More Evidence that Environmentalism Is Anti-human

Let FedEx Do the Job

What Kind of Government for Iraq?

Faith-Based Initiative Immoral and Unconstitutional

Iraqi Oil Does Not Belong to the Iraqi People

No U.N. in post-war Iraq

Self-Defense Should Be the Purpose of the War

Civilian Casualties Should Not Hinder War Effort

Peaceniks' Motivation

Palestinian State an Insane Idea

Unilateralism Morally Justified

A Close Look at the United Nations

False Accusations Against the U.S.

U.S. vs. U.N.

Cloning Should Not Be Banned

The Nature of the Peace Movement

The Columbia Tragedy

United We Stand

United States Should Withdraw from the United Nations

The Fundamental Difference Between the Israeli and the Palestinian Cultures

Ad Linking SUV Owners to Terrorism Is a Sham

Common Enemies

Support Freedom in Hong Kong

Is Russia with Us or with the Terrorists?

Students Should Think for Themselves

A Show of Weakness

Embryos Are Not People

Freedom Fighters Against Terrorists

Israel's Enemies Are America's Enemies

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