Many Americans consider the issues of immigration and globalization principally from an economic perspective. And that perspective is....
March 2006 -- “I’m going to kill you. It will make the world a better place.” “I appreciate your attempt at altruism, but it wouldn’t make
Deep within every nonfiction writer lie the seeds of a budding novelist. At least, I know that’s true for me. I’ve dabbled continually in...
March 2006 --Charles R. Morris, The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan Invented the American
What do we know about what makes creative genius possible? Can we say anything new about the awesome creative ability of an Aristotle...
Everybody remembers exactly where he was on September 11, 2001. I was taking a photojournalism course at the Defense Information School at
Immigration has become the most politically and emotionally charged domestic issue in the United States—which is ironic, given that this
Summer 2006 -- Malcolm Gladwell's Blink stayed on the bestseller list for months. It defends the merits of making major decisions quickly...
April/May 2005 -- An unrecognized threat to the liberty and prosperity of each American has spread throughout the country, taking root in
March 2006 -- In March, I was stunned to learn of the unexpected death of a remarkable individualist and friend, Madeleine Pelner Cosman.
Of course, I also blog in my pajamas. Or in jeans and a sweater. Sometimes after a business lunch, I blog in a suit. I’ve blogged in London
Young children are captivated by stories of imaginary heroes and heroines whose struggles and successes are set in mythical lands or
We in the West may argue over whether Islamist terrorists hate us for what we do or for what we are. But if we pay attention to what they...
How many Objectivists are there among television actresses? Well, there is one for sure: Tracey Ross of NBC’s popular soap opera “Passions.
One can hardly convey, a half-century after the publication of Atlas Shrugged , the excitement of teenagers who became Objectivists in the early 1960s. Objectivism was, clearly, the true philosophy; that much we knew. Perhaps more exactly, Objectivism was philosophy—it was the very enterprise of philosophy restored, to live again as once it had lived in ancient Athens. With William Wordsworth, we could say:
anuary/February 2006 -- “Ayn Rand is dead,” wrote conservative author William F. Buckley in an obituary column in 1982. “So, incidentally, is the philosophy she sought to launch dead; it was in fact stillborn.”
What does a true artist live for, deep in his soul?
Decades of ideological corruption of scholarship in American universities have crippled us in the war against Islamic jihad.
How can I say this? Surely we know the Republican response: “Think of the grim alternative! Congressional committees dominated or chaired by
In his feature-film directorial debut, Andy Garcia uses the screen as his canvas to paint a vibrant and wistful picture of a Havana he never
Many Americans consider the issues of immigration and globalization principally from an economic perspective. And that perspective is....
March 2006 -- “I’m going to kill you. It will make the world a better place.” “I appreciate your attempt at altruism, but it wouldn’t make
Deep within every nonfiction writer lie the seeds of a budding novelist. At least, I know that’s true for me. I’ve dabbled continually in...
March 2006 --Charles R. Morris, The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan Invented the American
What do we know about what makes creative genius possible? Can we say anything new about the awesome creative ability of an Aristotle...
Everybody remembers exactly where he was on September 11, 2001. I was taking a photojournalism course at the Defense Information School at
Immigration has become the most politically and emotionally charged domestic issue in the United States—which is ironic, given that this
Summer 2006 -- Malcolm Gladwell's Blink stayed on the bestseller list for months. It defends the merits of making major decisions quickly...
April/May 2005 -- An unrecognized threat to the liberty and prosperity of each American has spread throughout the country, taking root in
March 2006 -- In March, I was stunned to learn of the unexpected death of a remarkable individualist and friend, Madeleine Pelner Cosman.
Of course, I also blog in my pajamas. Or in jeans and a sweater. Sometimes after a business lunch, I blog in a suit. I’ve blogged in London
Young children are captivated by stories of imaginary heroes and heroines whose struggles and successes are set in mythical lands or
We in the West may argue over whether Islamist terrorists hate us for what we do or for what we are. But if we pay attention to what they...
How many Objectivists are there among television actresses? Well, there is one for sure: Tracey Ross of NBC’s popular soap opera “Passions.
One can hardly convey, a half-century after the publication of Atlas Shrugged , the excitement of teenagers who became Objectivists in the early 1960s. Objectivism was, clearly, the true philosophy; that much we knew. Perhaps more exactly, Objectivism was philosophy—it was the very enterprise of philosophy restored, to live again as once it had lived in ancient Athens. With William Wordsworth, we could say:
anuary/February 2006 -- “Ayn Rand is dead,” wrote conservative author William F. Buckley in an obituary column in 1982. “So, incidentally, is the philosophy she sought to launch dead; it was in fact stillborn.”
What does a true artist live for, deep in his soul?
Decades of ideological corruption of scholarship in American universities have crippled us in the war against Islamic jihad.
How can I say this? Surely we know the Republican response: “Think of the grim alternative! Congressional committees dominated or chaired by
In his feature-film directorial debut, Andy Garcia uses the screen as his canvas to paint a vibrant and wistful picture of a Havana he never