Navigator, September, 2003

Editor's Desk

In This Issue

Ideas and Issues:

How Chile Was Saved by José Piñera
Leftist legend says that Salvador Allende was a popular, democratic president ousted by a repressive military dictatorship. In fact, the revolution that overthrew him rescued Chile from the horrors of Marxist socialism and started the country on a path to genuine freedom. José Piñera sets the record straight.

Feature Story:

Can There Be an "After Socialism"? by Alan Charles Kors
Virtually every American knows that Nazi Germany brought death to six million Jews and perhaps six million other victims. But how many know that communism is responsible for seven to eight times as many deaths? Until the West has thoroughly confronted this horrific slaughter, writes Alan Kors, communism cannot belong to the past.

Perspectives:

The Industrial Revolution's Indispensable Entrepreneur by Roger Donway
Students of capitalist history too often imagine that it is merely the history of technology. The role played by Matthew Boulton in the development of the steam engine demonstrates how false that picture is.

Soundings

Logbook:

A Seminar for the New Intellectual
The Objectivist Center's Fourteenth Annual Summer Seminar was held just outside Boston this year and offered its usual array of lectures and workshops, performances and recitals, dinners, dances, and all-night discussions. A good time was had by all.

Advanced Seminar Studies Mind and Knowledge

Hudgins Explains Capitalism to Many Audiences

Sightings