The machine is a defining cultural element of the 20th century. The machine and mass production influences man’s view of himself, his
Dreiser’s Hortense Briggs and Rand’s Rita Eksler are both femmes fatales, but whereas Dreiser seethes with resentment that such a girl exist
If the media want to scold others for lying, perhaps they shouldn’t defend their own liars. Ever since Donald Trump’s political rise, the..
It is difficult to think of two American authors more antithetical than Ayn Rand and Theodore Dreiser. According to his 1965 biographer, W..
Conservatism may be in decline, but don’t blame it on Ayn Rand. That’s what Washington Post columnist EJ Dionne tried to do last week while
Douglas Den Uyl is vice president of educational programs for Liberty Fund. Douglas Rasmussen is a professor of philosophy at St. John’s
As far as I’m concerned, everything you need to know about capitalism vs. statism is captured in this chart comparing per-capita economic...
Scams and rackets, hoaxes and frauds … are as old as humanity itself. The Federal Trade Commission estimates that over 25 million Americans
This Women’s History Month, we turn to words of female empowerment from an unlikely source: Gene Simmons...
Venus was the most beautiful baby born, but she was cursed in two ways: First, no one knew who her father was, her mother deftly convincing
America didn’t win World War II solely on the backs of her men and women in uniform. Without the tireless efforts on the home front, there..
There are dozens of Black History Month “reading lists” which include many books you might expect, ranging from biographies of civil rights
Decades ago at 2:30 a.m. on a back street in La Jolla, I was arrested driving my mom’s ’68 Firebird 400 convertible. I had our tiny mutts
One could describe great literature as being like great architecture: all the elements pull together and buttress a central theme...
In 2011, the New York Times posed this question as a headline, “Can a novelist write philosophically?” drawing on the work...
We learned last week that tribe trumps truth when it comes to sexual harassment allegations against our political leaders. Partisans stick
What would you rather be remembered for: “Read my lips” or “Dodge my hands”? Breaking the tax pledge was once considered the low point...
A young woman flees a communist country, works her way to the top of her field, meets the man of her dreams, and becomes a symbol of America
The Atlas Society (TAS) announces that David Kelley, PhD, its founder and Chief Intellectual Officer, will retire at the end of 2017. Two
In a letter written on March 19, 1944, Ayn Rand remarked: “Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism are only superficial variations of the s
The machine is a defining cultural element of the 20th century. The machine and mass production influences man’s view of himself, his
Dreiser’s Hortense Briggs and Rand’s Rita Eksler are both femmes fatales, but whereas Dreiser seethes with resentment that such a girl exist
If the media want to scold others for lying, perhaps they shouldn’t defend their own liars. Ever since Donald Trump’s political rise, the..
It is difficult to think of two American authors more antithetical than Ayn Rand and Theodore Dreiser. According to his 1965 biographer, W..
Conservatism may be in decline, but don’t blame it on Ayn Rand. That’s what Washington Post columnist EJ Dionne tried to do last week while
Douglas Den Uyl is vice president of educational programs for Liberty Fund. Douglas Rasmussen is a professor of philosophy at St. John’s
As far as I’m concerned, everything you need to know about capitalism vs. statism is captured in this chart comparing per-capita economic...
Scams and rackets, hoaxes and frauds … are as old as humanity itself. The Federal Trade Commission estimates that over 25 million Americans
This Women’s History Month, we turn to words of female empowerment from an unlikely source: Gene Simmons...
Venus was the most beautiful baby born, but she was cursed in two ways: First, no one knew who her father was, her mother deftly convincing
America didn’t win World War II solely on the backs of her men and women in uniform. Without the tireless efforts on the home front, there..
There are dozens of Black History Month “reading lists” which include many books you might expect, ranging from biographies of civil rights
Decades ago at 2:30 a.m. on a back street in La Jolla, I was arrested driving my mom’s ’68 Firebird 400 convertible. I had our tiny mutts
One could describe great literature as being like great architecture: all the elements pull together and buttress a central theme...
In 2011, the New York Times posed this question as a headline, “Can a novelist write philosophically?” drawing on the work...
We learned last week that tribe trumps truth when it comes to sexual harassment allegations against our political leaders. Partisans stick
What would you rather be remembered for: “Read my lips” or “Dodge my hands”? Breaking the tax pledge was once considered the low point...
A young woman flees a communist country, works her way to the top of her field, meets the man of her dreams, and becomes a symbol of America
The Atlas Society (TAS) announces that David Kelley, PhD, its founder and Chief Intellectual Officer, will retire at the end of 2017. Two
In a letter written on March 19, 1944, Ayn Rand remarked: “Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism are only superficial variations of the s