January/February 2007 -- Rigidity is the besetting sin of old age, as zealotry is of youth and cynicism of maturity. That is why, having embarked on my sixtieth year to heaven, I accepted Robert Bidinotto’s offer to write a regular commentary column for The New Individualist. It gives me a motive to survey the passing scene, not just to proclaim what is good and true and beautiful (everyone in the Information Age does that), but to reflect critically on the lifelong beliefs and attitudes by which I have typically formed such judgments.
January/February 2007 -- In her famous speech at the 1984 Republican convention, the late UN ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick famously attacked those whose reflexive reaction to anything bad happening anywhere on earth was to “blame America first.”
December 2007 -- As the story is told, a scientist was discussing with the philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand how her vision of a laissez-faire society would affect scientific projects. She explained that all such projects (apart those undertaken for the limited functions of government) would have to be privately funded, either through corporate research-and-development departments or through foundations.
December 2007 -- The first question to ask upon starting up a vehicle should be: “Where are the brakes?” The first question to ask upon
The institutionalized discrimination against women and religious minorities, the denial of the freedom of conscience, the deeply rooted
In 1969, after working as a high school intern at Goddard Space Flight Center on the Apollo 11 moon landing, I became an astronomy major in
In the first chapter of his eleventh bestseller, Bad Luck and Trouble, nameless men hover over the California desert in a Bell 222 helicopte
Who really wants to see another feel-good movie about a tough educator who takes on both the most violent juvenile delinquents and “the
July/August 2007 -- In recent columns and articles, I have found it useful to differentiate between bourgeois individualism and Romantic
Critics are of two sorts, it has been said: Those who make you want to read the work they are analyzing; and those who make you want to
Clint Eastwood is arguably our greatest living motion picture director. Thirty-five years after his directorial debut in the Hitchcock
When I’m with friends, a favorite party drinking game is watching “Behind the Music” on VH1. The show usually profiles some graying rock
As redemption tales, boxing movies more than hold their own alongside war pictures, Bible epics, and tough-guy teachers who turn around
Lee Child is the bestselling author of what Publisher’s Weekly calls “arguably today’s finest thriller series.” Its huge, and hugely popular
The Music Never Ends. Featuring Clint Eastwood, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Martin Scorsese, Arthur Penn, Bill
December 2007 -- Russia is about to have a problem with the legal transfer of executive power.
Jed Babbin, a political commentator who served as a deputy undersecretary of defense for the first President Bush, warns that Americans are too optimistic about the prospects of making peace with our enemies, either because we ignore the things they write and say, or because we interpret their words through the lens of our experience with reasonable, decent people. This is a mistake because, as Newt Gingrich warns in the Foreword, “if we fail to understand that our enemy is evil, we have failed to understand what we are fighting.”
I thoroughly enjoyed Michael Moore’s “documentary” Sicko. I went to San Antonio’s Bijou Crossroads on its opening night, and from the looks
Imagine you are a colonel—a highly decorated war hero—in the greatest army on the face of the earth. You savor the taste of victory as your
January/February 2007 -- Rigidity is the besetting sin of old age, as zealotry is of youth and cynicism of maturity. That is why, having embarked on my sixtieth year to heaven, I accepted Robert Bidinotto’s offer to write a regular commentary column for The New Individualist. It gives me a motive to survey the passing scene, not just to proclaim what is good and true and beautiful (everyone in the Information Age does that), but to reflect critically on the lifelong beliefs and attitudes by which I have typically formed such judgments.
January/February 2007 -- In her famous speech at the 1984 Republican convention, the late UN ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick famously attacked those whose reflexive reaction to anything bad happening anywhere on earth was to “blame America first.”
December 2007 -- As the story is told, a scientist was discussing with the philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand how her vision of a laissez-faire society would affect scientific projects. She explained that all such projects (apart those undertaken for the limited functions of government) would have to be privately funded, either through corporate research-and-development departments or through foundations.
December 2007 -- The first question to ask upon starting up a vehicle should be: “Where are the brakes?” The first question to ask upon
The institutionalized discrimination against women and religious minorities, the denial of the freedom of conscience, the deeply rooted
In 1969, after working as a high school intern at Goddard Space Flight Center on the Apollo 11 moon landing, I became an astronomy major in
In the first chapter of his eleventh bestseller, Bad Luck and Trouble, nameless men hover over the California desert in a Bell 222 helicopte
Who really wants to see another feel-good movie about a tough educator who takes on both the most violent juvenile delinquents and “the
July/August 2007 -- In recent columns and articles, I have found it useful to differentiate between bourgeois individualism and Romantic
Critics are of two sorts, it has been said: Those who make you want to read the work they are analyzing; and those who make you want to
Clint Eastwood is arguably our greatest living motion picture director. Thirty-five years after his directorial debut in the Hitchcock
When I’m with friends, a favorite party drinking game is watching “Behind the Music” on VH1. The show usually profiles some graying rock
As redemption tales, boxing movies more than hold their own alongside war pictures, Bible epics, and tough-guy teachers who turn around
Lee Child is the bestselling author of what Publisher’s Weekly calls “arguably today’s finest thriller series.” Its huge, and hugely popular
The Music Never Ends. Featuring Clint Eastwood, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Martin Scorsese, Arthur Penn, Bill
December 2007 -- Russia is about to have a problem with the legal transfer of executive power.
Jed Babbin, a political commentator who served as a deputy undersecretary of defense for the first President Bush, warns that Americans are too optimistic about the prospects of making peace with our enemies, either because we ignore the things they write and say, or because we interpret their words through the lens of our experience with reasonable, decent people. This is a mistake because, as Newt Gingrich warns in the Foreword, “if we fail to understand that our enemy is evil, we have failed to understand what we are fighting.”
I thoroughly enjoyed Michael Moore’s “documentary” Sicko. I went to San Antonio’s Bijou Crossroads on its opening night, and from the looks
Imagine you are a colonel—a highly decorated war hero—in the greatest army on the face of the earth. You savor the taste of victory as your