We’ve all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to struggle just to keep our heads above water. To save the American Dream, we’re told that we need to fight inequality through tax hikes, wealth redistribution schemes, and a far higher minimum wage.

But what if that narrative is wrong? What if the real threat to the American Dream isn’t rising income inequality—but an all-out war on success?

In Equal is Unfair, a timely and thought-provoking work, Don Watkins and Yaron Brook reveal that almost everything we’ve been taught about inequality is wrong. 

"Incisive, well-written, much-needed and powerful antidote to the pernicious "wisdom" about income inequality. The real problem is not free markets but arbitrary government power. An impressive achievement"
Steve Forbes
Steve Forbes
Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Magazine

In this book, In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance, Yaron Brook and Don Watkins dispel the prevailing negative myths about finance and clearly lay out the industry’s virtues within a moral framework. This ambitious book shows readers how we can reframe societal mores and end the vilification of financiers.

“Yaron Brook and Don Watkins provide a much-needed counterbalance to this false narrative. Absent government and Fed interference, finance is an integral component of a vibrant free market economy, where value is not extracted but created. If liberal grandstanding and a biased media have blinded you to the truth, this book will open your eyes.”
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Peter Schiff
CEO of Euro Pacific Capital

The rise of the Tea Party and the 2010 election results revealed that tens of millions of Americans are alarmed by Big Government, but skeptical that anything can or will be done to stop the growth of the state.

In Free Market Revolution, the keepers of Ayn Rand’s legacy argue that the answer lies in her pioneering philosophy of capitalism and self-interest –a philosophy that more and more people are turning to for answers. In the past few years, Rand’s works have surged to new peaks of popularity, as politicians like Paul Ryan, media figures like John Stossel, and businessmen like John Mackey routinely name her as one of their chief influences.

Here, Brook and Watkins explain how her ideas can solve a host of political and economic ills, including the debt crisis, inflation, overregulation, and the swelling welfare state. And most important, they show how Rand’s philosophy can enable defenders of the free market to sieze the moral high ground in the fight to limit government. This is a fresh and urgent look at the ideas of one of the most controversial figures in modern history – ideas that may prove the only hope for the future.

Brook and Watkins dismantle the myth that free markets are responsible for today’s ills, and they teach us how to take the moral high ground in the fight against Big Government. Anyone who wants to understand why we have strayed so far from the Founders’ ideals, and how we can find our way back, should read this book.
Mallory Factor
Mallory Factor
Professor of International Politics at The Citadel

Books contributed to by Yaron

Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea reveals publicly for the first time what the neocons call their philosophy of governance–their plan for governing America. This book provides a trenchant critique of neoconservatism from the perspective of America’s founding principles. 

Winning the Unwinnable War shows how our own policy ideas led to 9/11 and then crippled our response in the Middle East, and it makes the case for an unsettling conclusion: By subordinating military victory to perverse, allegedly moral constraints, Washington’s policy has undermined our national security.

Why Businessmen Need Philosophy: The Capitalist’s Guide to the Ideas Behind Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is a collection of essays presenting a philosophical defense of capitalism by Ayn Rand and other Objectivist intellectuals. It reveals the importance of maintaining philosophical principles in the corporate environment and provides the tactical and tactful rational thinking required to defend companies from ideological attacks. 

Big Tent: The Story of the Conservative Revolution–As Told by the Thinkers and Doers Who Made It Happen draws from Mallory Factor’s comprehensive, star-studded course at the Citadel. Factor, the New York Times bestselling author of Shadowbosses, brings together a fascinating and diverse range of essays from leading figures and activists which explore and illuminate the conservative intellectual tradition in American politics.

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