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<h1 align="center">Essays:</h1>
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  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/ARA_1APICTUREIS.pdf">Sept 6, 2001: A PICTURE 
    IS NOT AN ARGUMENT (a pro-choice flier I made) -- PDF</a> <a href="/essay/ARA%20#1%20A%20PICTURE%20IS.doc#1 A PICTURE IS.doc#1%20A%20PICTURE%20IS.doc">/DOC</a>
  </li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/2abroad">September 12, 2001: Abroad 
    in search of monsters to destroy (on WTC Bombing)</a>
  </li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/3govtassis">September 24, 2001: When 
    should government promote or assist private business? </a> 
  </li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/4window">The Broken Window (this is actually a great essay by Henry Hazzlit) </a>
  </li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/5me_basis">November 27, 2001: 
    The Moral and Economic Basis of Government </a>
  </li>
    <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/9apps">April 2002: My OAC and 
    IHS Essays -- My life goals, major influences, etc..</a>
  </li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/10economy">Tuesday, March 26, 2002: 
    A Brief Essay on the Post Sept 11 Recession</a>
  </li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/7identity">April 30, 2002: Identity
    Issues Final Exam</a>
  </li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/12usa_politics">Politics 
    for the Uninitiated</a> (incomplete)</li>
  <li class="essay"> <a href="/essay/17virtues">August 11, 2002: The Virtues of our Time:
    Collectivism, Nihilism and Pragmatism</a>
  </li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/18RussiaReform">August 14, 2002: A Policy Proposal for 
    Economic Reform in Russia </a>
  </li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/20atheist">September 22, 2002: The Atheist FAQ</a>
  </li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/21freewill">October 14, 2002: Free Will vs Determinism</a>
    
  </li>
  <li class="essay">
    <a href="/essay/27freewill2">November 25, 2002: Free Will vs. Determinism Revisited</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/28antiwar">December 7, 2002: The anti-war protesters: what are they for?</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/30google">December 9, 2002: Google, Censorship, and the Hostage Dilemma</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/31econ_freedom">December 10, 2002: Economic Freedom and Prosperity Around The World</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/32context">January 3, 2003: Putting Liberals into Context</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/33god">January 7, 2003: The Contradictions of a Natural God</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/35rights">January 30, 2003: Government, Social Obligation and the Nature of Rights</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/38lalaland">March 23, 2003: La-La Land Economics</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/39knowledge">April 7, 2003: Empricism and Epistemology</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/41fastfood">April 14, 2003: In Defense of Fast Food</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/42racism">April 15, 2003: Letter: Gaines Memorial Would be a Tribute to Racism</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/46GunsAbortions">May 27, 2003: Guns and Abortions: Two Sides of the Same Coin</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/48monopoly#start">June 12, 2003: Letter: Regarding Monopolies</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/49sex">August 5, 2003: The Origins of Gender Roles and Sexual Identity, and the Implications for Deviant Behavior</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/50creativity">October 23, 2003: Creativity, the Man-Made and the Metaphysically Given</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/52capitalism">November 1, 2003: What is Capitalism? (in progress)</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/53semantic_web#_Toc58292688">December 4, 2003: The Semantic Web</a>
    <br />
  </li>
</ul>
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<h1 align="center">Newsgroup posts and various rants :</h1>
     
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  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/1selfish">October 8, 2001: 
    How I Discovered Selfishness</a></li>
  <li><a href="/essay/6creators">May 14th, 2002: Witch 
    Doctors vs. the Creators (on religion and nihilism)</a>
  </li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/13LiberalsasIrrational">July 1 2002: 
    Liberals as Irrational </a> </li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/15FreedomvsControl">July 15 2002: 
    Population Control vs Economic Freedom</a>
  </li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/16noSPAM">July 16, 2002: Spammer Revenge!</a>
  
  </li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/19gay">September 11,2002: Anti-Discrimination Statues and &quot;Gay Rights&quot;</a>
  </li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/22morality">
  October 15, 2002: David’s very brief argument for objective morality</a>
  </li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/23theft">
  October 15, 2002: Why theft is always self-destructive.</a>
    
  </li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/24prozac">Novermber 6th, 2002: Plato, not Prozac!</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/25postmodernism">(Oct 17 - Work in Progress) Smart Dolphins, Stupid Post-Modernists
    </a>
  </li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/26guilt">November 17, 2002: Divine Inspiration and Religious Guilt</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/34art">January 24, 2003: Modern Art and Visions of Values</a></li>
  <li class="essay"><a href="/essay/37quantum">March 11, 2003: Evolution and
Thermodynamics, the Natural Universe vs. God/Quantum Universe, etc</a></li>
  <li><a href="/essay/44concepts">May 3, 2003: The Anti-Conceptual Mentality (in Politics and Economics)</a></li>
  <li><a href="/essay/51universe">October 24, 2003: A Theory on the Basic Nature of the Universe</a></li>
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