Electrical matter consists of extremely small particles. (True. Electrons are particles and are smaller than can be measured..
In 1940, The Saturday Evening Post carried a short story by Paul Gallico (1897-1976), who had begun his career as a sports reporter but who
January 2000 -- This month's "Achievers" column begins to redeem the promise made on the inside back cover of the December 1999 Navigator. T
Benjamin Franklin is the ideal person to lead off The Atlas Society''s Year 250 celebration, for many reasons. First, Franklin was a man who
This month's "Achievers" column begins to redeem the promise made on the inside back cover of the December 1999 Navigator. There, under the
One side effect of the 2008 financial crisis has been renewed attention to the ban on insider
"Tea parties." "Going Galt." You've probably seen a growing number of references to these in the media, online, and on signs at rallies reacting to new government spending and controls. The Boston Tea Party was a rebellion against excessive government. Today's "tea parties" say "no" to spending without limit and the government takeover of our lives.
Sidebar article to: " Goddess Undeified ." a review of the book Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, by Jennifer Burns.Fall 2009 issue -- Jennifer Burns summarizes the essential structure of Objectivism in one place in her biography, a single paragraph on page 148: “It was all adding up to one integrated system. Man was a rational creature who used his mind to survive. The rational faculty required independence and individuality to operate properly; therefore an ethic of selfishness was appropriate for rational men.”
Fall 2009 issue — The vision of the electric car is a totem to the Progressive movement. But is it a realistic vision?Progressive-inclined businesspeople are thick on the ground in Silicon Valley, a bastion of environmentalism. Since information technology can operate at a comfortable distance from the factories of energy producers, an entrepreneur can make millions in IT without ever deviating from his or her green creed.
In January, 1962, in the very first issue of The Objectivist Newsletter, Ayn Rand wrote, “Objectivists are...
Winter 2011 issue -- The suggestion that a movement can be both radical and conservative may sound contradictory. To be radical is to...
Under pointed questioning by Henry Waxman, the committee chairman, Greenspan issued a mea-culpa that resounded around the world.
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.....
In the old days, circa 1900, American businessmen had to twist their minds into pretzels in order to pretend that some desired governmental intervention criminalizing rival companies was compatible with free enterprise. In the middle of the twentieth century, it was easier: Businessmen could portray governmental interventions criminalizing rivals as undoubted exceptions to free enterprise but as actions demanded by national security—and as actions targeting less patriotic rivals. Today, fifty years deep into the postmodernist era, I wonder if American businessmen can any longer distinguish between business activities aimed at out-competing rivals and governmental activities aimed at criminalizing them.
Conrad Black’s book on his legal ordeal, A Matter of Principle, has now been published (it can be ordered from Amazon here ) and The New Criterion’s February issue has a review of it, “The persection of Lord Black,” by Andrew C. McCarthy.
Sidebar article to: "Charms and Enchantments of Fantasy" (July/August 2003) The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien A novel in three books: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King.
May 2003 -- On March 21, 2003, sophisticated weapons were assaulting the Baathist regime in Baghdad. And so was a simple one: the truth. One such strike occurred that day at about 1321 "Zulu" time (that is, Greenwich Mean Time). Gavin Hewitt, a BBC reporter with the U.S. Seventh Cavalry, which was scouting ahead of the U.S. advance to Baghdad, reported: We are deep into Southern Iraq, certainly well over 100 kilometres north from the border. We've been driving for over 11 hours.In the last few minutes we just crossed over the Basra-Baghdad highway.We've had several bizarre incidents in the last few minutes of drivers on the highway completely unaware that American armour may be this far north, stopping their vehicles in utter amazement as we crossed the highway.
What marks a genius? If it is misanthropy, then Johann Sebastian Bach (born March 21, 1685) was not a genius. He did his greatest work in
In his State of the Union address, on January 24, President Obama said: "I’m asking my Attorney General to create a special unit of federal prosecutors and leading state attorney general [sic] to expand our investigations into the abusive lending and packaging of risky mortgages that led to the housing crisis. This new unit will hold accountable those who broke the law, speed assistance to homeowners, and help turn the page on an era of recklessness that hurt so many Americans.”
Leftists often insist—and quite rightly—that it is foolish for America to try to impose its political system on countries with fundamentally different cultures. But will they speak out against the American government’s increasing attempts to impose our legal system on countries with fundamentally different cultures? Michael Volkov (background here ) points out at his blog “Corruption, Crime & Compliance” just how far the U.S. invasion has gone.
Electrical matter consists of extremely small particles. (True. Electrons are particles and are smaller than can be measured..
In 1940, The Saturday Evening Post carried a short story by Paul Gallico (1897-1976), who had begun his career as a sports reporter but who
January 2000 -- This month's "Achievers" column begins to redeem the promise made on the inside back cover of the December 1999 Navigator. T
Benjamin Franklin is the ideal person to lead off The Atlas Society''s Year 250 celebration, for many reasons. First, Franklin was a man who
This month's "Achievers" column begins to redeem the promise made on the inside back cover of the December 1999 Navigator. There, under the
One side effect of the 2008 financial crisis has been renewed attention to the ban on insider
"Tea parties." "Going Galt." You've probably seen a growing number of references to these in the media, online, and on signs at rallies reacting to new government spending and controls. The Boston Tea Party was a rebellion against excessive government. Today's "tea parties" say "no" to spending without limit and the government takeover of our lives.
Sidebar article to: " Goddess Undeified ." a review of the book Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, by Jennifer Burns.Fall 2009 issue -- Jennifer Burns summarizes the essential structure of Objectivism in one place in her biography, a single paragraph on page 148: “It was all adding up to one integrated system. Man was a rational creature who used his mind to survive. The rational faculty required independence and individuality to operate properly; therefore an ethic of selfishness was appropriate for rational men.”
Fall 2009 issue — The vision of the electric car is a totem to the Progressive movement. But is it a realistic vision?Progressive-inclined businesspeople are thick on the ground in Silicon Valley, a bastion of environmentalism. Since information technology can operate at a comfortable distance from the factories of energy producers, an entrepreneur can make millions in IT without ever deviating from his or her green creed.
In January, 1962, in the very first issue of The Objectivist Newsletter, Ayn Rand wrote, “Objectivists are...
Winter 2011 issue -- The suggestion that a movement can be both radical and conservative may sound contradictory. To be radical is to...
Under pointed questioning by Henry Waxman, the committee chairman, Greenspan issued a mea-culpa that resounded around the world.
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.....
In the old days, circa 1900, American businessmen had to twist their minds into pretzels in order to pretend that some desired governmental intervention criminalizing rival companies was compatible with free enterprise. In the middle of the twentieth century, it was easier: Businessmen could portray governmental interventions criminalizing rivals as undoubted exceptions to free enterprise but as actions demanded by national security—and as actions targeting less patriotic rivals. Today, fifty years deep into the postmodernist era, I wonder if American businessmen can any longer distinguish between business activities aimed at out-competing rivals and governmental activities aimed at criminalizing them.
Conrad Black’s book on his legal ordeal, A Matter of Principle, has now been published (it can be ordered from Amazon here ) and The New Criterion’s February issue has a review of it, “The persection of Lord Black,” by Andrew C. McCarthy.
Sidebar article to: "Charms and Enchantments of Fantasy" (July/August 2003) The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien A novel in three books: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King.
May 2003 -- On March 21, 2003, sophisticated weapons were assaulting the Baathist regime in Baghdad. And so was a simple one: the truth. One such strike occurred that day at about 1321 "Zulu" time (that is, Greenwich Mean Time). Gavin Hewitt, a BBC reporter with the U.S. Seventh Cavalry, which was scouting ahead of the U.S. advance to Baghdad, reported: We are deep into Southern Iraq, certainly well over 100 kilometres north from the border. We've been driving for over 11 hours.In the last few minutes we just crossed over the Basra-Baghdad highway.We've had several bizarre incidents in the last few minutes of drivers on the highway completely unaware that American armour may be this far north, stopping their vehicles in utter amazement as we crossed the highway.
What marks a genius? If it is misanthropy, then Johann Sebastian Bach (born March 21, 1685) was not a genius. He did his greatest work in
In his State of the Union address, on January 24, President Obama said: "I’m asking my Attorney General to create a special unit of federal prosecutors and leading state attorney general [sic] to expand our investigations into the abusive lending and packaging of risky mortgages that led to the housing crisis. This new unit will hold accountable those who broke the law, speed assistance to homeowners, and help turn the page on an era of recklessness that hurt so many Americans.”
Leftists often insist—and quite rightly—that it is foolish for America to try to impose its political system on countries with fundamentally different cultures. But will they speak out against the American government’s increasing attempts to impose our legal system on countries with fundamentally different cultures? Michael Volkov (background here ) points out at his blog “Corruption, Crime & Compliance” just how far the U.S. invasion has gone.