When Steve Ditko picked up the phone over two years ago, I stammered an introduction, thanking him for the generous checks he’d written for
Listen, my children, and you shall learn
Ayn Rand left an intellectual legacy the size of Mount Everest. A mountain this size cannot be traversed in a few hours, the literary equivalent of which is 36,000 words.
Ayn Rand was right of course. Rand was right about living conditions in Russia. She was right about the logical conclusions of communism....
As Dreiser depicts them, Clyde Griffiths and Roberta Alden are not lovers so much as they are victims. Biology and society conspire against
With the passage of the recent bipartisan budget agreement and its $300 billion assault on spending caps, coming on the heels of the GOP’s..
In the last decade of the 18th century Beethoven composed his 1st and 2nd piano concertos, Goya etched the series Los Caprichos, Jacques-Lou
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..
Part 2—Esta Griffiths and Lydia Argounova
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
Ayn Rand polarizes. There are those who declare that everything about Ayn Rand has already been decided.
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..
When Steve Ditko picked up the phone over two years ago, I stammered an introduction, thanking him for the generous checks he’d written for
Listen, my children, and you shall learn
Ayn Rand left an intellectual legacy the size of Mount Everest. A mountain this size cannot be traversed in a few hours, the literary equivalent of which is 36,000 words.
Ayn Rand was right of course. Rand was right about living conditions in Russia. She was right about the logical conclusions of communism....
As Dreiser depicts them, Clyde Griffiths and Roberta Alden are not lovers so much as they are victims. Biology and society conspire against
With the passage of the recent bipartisan budget agreement and its $300 billion assault on spending caps, coming on the heels of the GOP’s..
In the last decade of the 18th century Beethoven composed his 1st and 2nd piano concertos, Goya etched the series Los Caprichos, Jacques-Lou
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..
Part 2—Esta Griffiths and Lydia Argounova
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
Ayn Rand polarizes. There are those who declare that everything about Ayn Rand has already been decided.
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..