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William R Thomas
The Productive Genius of Johann Sebastian Bach
March 2003 -- What marks a genius? If it is misanthropy, then Johann Sebastian Bach (born March 21, 1685) was not a genius. He did his greatest work in the hubbub of a full and loving home life and a busy and demanding round of arranging, performing, and teaching. He not only produced great compositions, he produced fine composers as well, in his sons. If a genius must suffer, then Bach was not one. By all accounts he was a jolly, active person who held down steady, paying work throughout his career.
Objectivity as a Weapon
We are deep into Southern Iraq, certainly well over 100 kilometres north from the border. We've been driving for over 11 hours.
Review: Moral Rights and Political Freedom
BOOK REVIEW: Moral Rights and Political Freedom. By Tara Smith. (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. 224 pp. $57.50; $23.50, paper.)
Review: The Beacon at Alexandria
December 1997 -- The Beacon at Alexandria tells the story of Charis of Ephesus, a young woman living in the late Roman Empire who determines to make a life for herself as a physician, and finds herself struggling not merely to do so at a time when no women are physicians, but to do so at a time when rational thought and peaceful intercourse are under attack from all sides.
Review: The New Ayn Rand Companion
BOOK REVIEW: Mimi Reisel Gladstein The New Ayn Rand Companion (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1999) 162 pp.
Greenspan: The Man Behind the Money
December 2000 -- Let me be clear from the first: Justin Martin’s biography of Alan Greenspan is a fun read. Written in a vigorous, journalistic style (the author was a long-time writer for Business Week), the book treats two very interesting subjects: the career of Alan Greenspan, from professional swing-band clarinetist to chairman of the Federal Reserve, and the pageant of political, economic, and intellectual events and personages with which Greenspan has been associated.
Ayn Rand Through Two Lenses
Ayn Rand, by Tibor Machan (New York: Peter Lang, 1999, 163 pp. $23.99)
Academic Interpretations of Ayn Rand