New Individualist
Top 10 Articles
David Kelley
Of Catalogs and Consumption
Winter 2011 issue -- The Christmas catalogs start arriving in September, a trickle that becomes a flood by Thanksgiving. They pile up in colorful drifts until it’s time for my favorite part of Christmas: choosing gifts for the people on my list.
I Can and I Will
Fall 2011 issue -- "Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right."
How Valid an Analogy?
Sidebar to Life: Your Adventure in Entrepreneurship
Summer 2009 -- Analogies, like fire, are useful servants but dangerous masters. Is the analogy with entrepreneurs a useful guide to the ethics and spirit of rational individualism? Does it go too far? Does it mistakenly erect a specific personality type and mode of life as a general standard for all people?
Life: Your Adventure in Entrepreneurship
Summer 2009 -- The entrepreneurial spirit is the spirit of enterprise: ambition to succeed, initiative in taking action, alertness to opportunity.
Does Islam Need a Reformation?
Spring 2011 -- One of the common refrains in commentary about the Islamic Middle East, especially since September 11, is that Islam needs a Reformation.
This analogy with the Protestant Reformation in 16th-century Europe is intended to suggest that a similar movement within Islam would counter the fundamentalism of Islamic extremists, strengthen religious freedom, and lead to something like the separation of church and state.
Film Review: Mad Hot Ballroom
June 2005 -- Mad Hot Ballroom. Director, Marilyn Agrelo; writer, Amy Sewell; director of photography, Claudia Raschke-Robinson; editor, Sabine Krayenbuhl; produced by Agrelo and Sewell; released by Paramount Classics. 105 minutes, rated PG.
The Ideas That Promote Terrorism
April/May 2005 -- (Editor’s note: The following remarks were delivered by David Kelley, a contributing editor for The New Individualist, on May 14, 2005, at the March against Terror, sponsored by the Free Muslims Coalition.)
A Philosophy for the 21st Century
October 2007 -- When Atlas Shrugged was published in October of 1957, it spoke to a world very different from ours, on the surface at least.
