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Roger Donway: A Salute

I cannot take the helm of this magazine without first paying tribute to the helmsman who has steered it so far, and so true..

Mar 30, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
5 Mins
Tracey Ross: TV

How many Objectivists are there among television actresses? Well, there is one for sure: Tracey Ross of NBC’s popular soap opera “Passions.

Mar 29, 2011
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John Berlau
7 Mins
Brava Madeleine!

March 2006 -- In March, I was stunned to learn of the unexpected death of a remarkable individualist and friend, Madeleine Pelner Cosman.

Mar 29, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
3 Mins
Book Review: Blink or Think?

Summer 2006 -- Malcolm Gladwell's Blink stayed on the bestseller list for months. It defends the merits of making major decisions quickly...

Mar 29, 2011
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Anthony Mirvish
6 Mins
Tom Wolfe: American Iconoclast

Tom Wolfe is one of the most original, honest, and unfettered contemporary observers of American culture alive today. Originator of “the New

Mar 28, 2011
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Marsha Enright
10 Mins
Secular Spirituality

The fall season ushers in Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and, this year, Ramadan as well. Winter brings Christmas and Hanukkah. Spring takes....

Mar 25, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
10 Mins
Book Review: Toward Heroic Capitalism

In 1859, the first treatise on “best practices” appeared: Self-Help, With Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance, by Samuel

Mar 25, 2011
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Robert L. Bradley, Jr
5 Mins
Book Review: Boys to Men

When I was a boy growing up in the suburbs of Baltimore, few songs stuck with me the way this one did. I think I was nine or ten, and upon..

Mar 24, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
2 Mins
James Clavell's Asian Adventures

So said James Clavell, an Australian immigrant to America who learned the fundamentals of the American outlook on life in a horrific...

Mar 23, 2011
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Marsha Enright
10 Mins
TNI's Interview with "Jihad Watcher" Robert Spencer

The institutionalized discrimination against women and religious minorities, the denial of the freedom of conscience, the deeply rooted

Mar 17, 2011
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Kyrel Zantonavitch
5 Mins
TNI's Interview with Vince Flynn

Vince Flynn has written many compelling yarns, but his own story may be the most inspiring. It’s the tale of a kid from a big Midwestern fam

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
10 Mins
The Self-Help Guide to Living in a Free Society

Too many Americans are losing the ability to take care of themselves and are instead looking to the government to run their lives for them..

Mar 16, 2011
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Gen LaGreca
7 Mins
Foucault's Sexuality

As I understand it, Foucault is one of the widely recognized creators of Postmodernism. He was influenced by Hegel and Nietzsche, and he

Feb 27, 2011
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William Dale
10 Mins
Labor Unions

An ideal Objectivist society would be one where there would be maximum individual freedom, and minimum governmental functions, primary among

Jan 26, 2011
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Malini Kochhar
2 Mins
Logic and a Paradox

Your argument is correct. But I will elaborate a little to make clear the Objectivist view.....

Jan 26, 2011
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2 Mins
Inductive Reasoning in Philosophy

Induction is the process of reaching general conclusions from particular facts. It is contrasted in logic with deduction, which is the proce

Jan 26, 2011
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2 Mins
How Objectivists Respond to Religionists

Objectivists are advocates of reason, so we first try to reason with people who believe in ideas supported only by faith...

Jan 26, 2011
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2 Mins
Laissez-Faire Capitalism and Workers' Rights

Workers' pay in the laissez-faire era of the19th century rose steadily with the innovations that increased productivity and lowered prices..

Jan 26, 2011
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2 Mins
Government Jobs for Objectivists

Objectivism holds that each person's life is its own moral sanction, and that no one thrives in life except by living as a rational being...

Jan 25, 2011
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3 Mins
Danielle Chiesi: Immoral Victim

I have not been blogging for the last month in order to devote my full time to an historically important violation of Business Rights. Now..

Jan 25, 2011
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2 Mins

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