William R Thomas

Sidebar article to: "America's New Action Hero: Ayn Rand"

 Sidebar article to: "Goddess Undeified." a review of the book Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, by Jennifer Burns.

Sidebar article to: "Why Was Ayn Rand?"

Fall 2009 issue -- I am an advocate of Objectivism, but I never met Ayn Rand. I regret that, as by all accounts she was fascinating and incisive. But sometimes I think it is just as well.

Fall 2009 issue — The vision of the electric car is a totem to the Progressive movement. But is it a realistic vision?

Sidebar article to: "Goddess Undeified", a review of Jennifer Burns's Goddess of the Market

The New Individualist’s founding editor David Kelley gets a characteristically fact-based and sympathetic treatment from Jennifer Burns in the epilogue to Goddess of the Market. She discusses, inter alia, the development of the Objectivist movement after Rand’s death, in which David Kelley has played a crucial role. Two excerpts:

BOOK REVIEW: Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (New York: Viking Penguin, 2005), 575 pp., $29.95.

Fall 2011 -- Newsflash: it’s a competitive world out there! Some of us are winning and some are losing. It’s the game of live-and-let-live together.

Summer 2011 -- A mysterious woman walks in on a man sitting behind a desk in a solitary private office. Is this the kick-off of a new detective story? Not really. Instead, it is a light journey into the meaning of life.

Summer 2011 issue  --   How can we judge how we are doing in life? Most people look to society as a guage. For example, we might look to our pay and our prestige at work to determine what we’re worth. But in an economic crisis, prices gyrate, jobs evaporate, and home values drift down. Amid such wrenching changes, many of us are flailing about mentally to know where we stand and how we stack up. How can we tell what really matters?