Never religious, Ayn Rand was as potently spiritual as any writer; she knew how to speak in a thoroughly earthly way to those aspirations...
It has long been said that when twentieth-century "serious" music adopted noisy traffic horns or long periods of silence as stand-ins for ..
Equality 7-2521, the hero of Anthem, is twenty-one years old when he escapes to freedom from a totalitarian state. The author of Anthem made
A collaboration between David Kelley and William R Thomas, based on a series of lectures originally composed by Dr. Kelley...
Photographer Daniella Zalcman spends a day with the street musicians and vendors of New York City. They might not be wearing suits or working at a computer, but they are taking an entrepreneurial approach to their life: being proactive, trading value for value, and persevering past obstacles in order to get one step closer to happiness.
But does every man feel like this at forty – I mean it’s like Thomas Wolfe’s New York, his heady light, the stunning plunging canyons...
Since 2006, the most objective presentations of conservative views to be heard in Manhattan have probably been those offered at a program...
Solomon L. Wisenberg, guest-blogging at White Collar Crime Pof Blog, writes about the SEC’s total defeat in the insider-trading case of SEC
Bill Mensching has aged a painting four hundred years, created a gigantic glass mural for a hotel in Las Vegas, and shipped the makings of..
er 2010 issue -- We’ve launched. Yes, we threw the switch and nothing blew up. On our new website that is. You can find it at www.atlassociety.org/tni. This is the new home for our print magazine as well as for web-only features. Each article comes with an “auto-podcasting” feature—meaning you can listen to any TNI print article over your computer speakers, or you can download it as an mp3 file. Now you can listen to TNI on a train, in a plane, or in a box with a fox. Anywhere you like. You also won’t want to miss our Live Discussions—text-based Q&A with various authors and opinion leaders. The TNI web home is part of a larger web-world, produced by our publisher, The Atlas Society. Visit the section next to TNI, and you’ll find the society’s new Business Rights Center, headed by the irreplaceable Roger Donway. Don’t miss his “Business Rights Watch” blog. You can also find interactive webinars to attend, free of charge, on intriguing issues, like individual rights. Understanding these issues will help you to understand the “clockwork” behind current events. The interactivity includes live opinion polling, Q&A, and virtual breakout rooms for concurrent discussions on different topics.
America is on the verge of a major economic and political crisis. Accordingly, it is a time for a transformative vision of society, a vision
The Atlas Society promotes open Objectivism: the philosophy of reason, individualism, achievement, and freedom originated by Ayn Rand....
Do you remember slam! that orange moon Just blazing big against the South Beach sky? We idled by those bumpy stuccoed walls, Still warm—in melon, pink, chartreuse. And I, I said, “The moonlight slips right through the bars, For trysts in gardens when a lover comes.” Insistent sambas, smells of rum, made night As musky as perfume the dancing warms. We followed sounds of crazy, happy Cuban Carcajada, right up an outdoor stair To where that moon punched pow! into that blue: You with shoulders silvery and soft and bare. Across the table, I fidgeted and grinned: At you? Those Cuban babes? Quien sabe? And you just said: “Oh God, it's getting late,” And our last moon, bam! was gone, gone away. spiderID=619
The Gulf Spill: This ( “Beyond Pathetic”) is an absolutely not-to-be-missed article by Andrew B. Wilson, published in The Weekly Standard. He presents with much more evidence the thesis that I was trying to develop in an earlier blog post about the coporate culture of BP under John Browne. And there is a larger issue here: the dividing line does not run between corporations and government, but between pro-capitalists (businessmen and politicians) and--something else. My friend Rob Bradley calls them “political capitalists,” but I refuse to use that term because it was made popular in the 1960s by the infinitely odious Gabriel Kolko. Many people use the term “crony capitalists,” but that is wrong also--because it implies that a kind of capitalism involved. As a commenter on Ira Stoll’s blog “The Future of Capitalism” wrote: “Quit calling it crony capitalism. Just call it Cronyism—it's shorter, deletes the unimportant word, focuses on the important one. It is just the same as crony socialism or crony pflugerism. The issue is the cronyism, and it's the cronyism that causes all the rules of equal justice to break down.”
On Cope’s book, Experiments in Musical Intelligence: “In twenty years of working in artificial intelligence, I have run across nothing more thought-provoking than David Cope’s Experiments in Musical Intelligence. What is the essence of musical style, indeed of music itself? Can great new music emerge from the extraction and recombination of patterns in earlier music? Are the deepest of human emotions triggerable by computer patterns of notes?
The son of a frustrated concert pianist, Cope remembers crawling around under his father’s piano listening to the music of Chopin, Schumann, and Rachmaninov. “No matter how hard I tried I could not escape from the fact that I was a musician, and that was my destiny,” Cope explains. “Music is what I am.”
Ask Jeannette Claudine Romeu what she does, and you’ll get a collection of answers. The fifth-generation musician is by turns a pianist...
The piano prelude begins insistently, with a loud, rhythmic figure repeated immediately at a lower register. The music winds up and down
Like any story relying on the fantastic, the superhero film has a test: does the fantastic sharpen and enhance the theme and the conflicts..
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY SAW more deaths from wars than at any time in human history—some 15 million in World War I and 60 million in World....
Never religious, Ayn Rand was as potently spiritual as any writer; she knew how to speak in a thoroughly earthly way to those aspirations...
It has long been said that when twentieth-century "serious" music adopted noisy traffic horns or long periods of silence as stand-ins for ..
Equality 7-2521, the hero of Anthem, is twenty-one years old when he escapes to freedom from a totalitarian state. The author of Anthem made
A collaboration between David Kelley and William R Thomas, based on a series of lectures originally composed by Dr. Kelley...
Photographer Daniella Zalcman spends a day with the street musicians and vendors of New York City. They might not be wearing suits or working at a computer, but they are taking an entrepreneurial approach to their life: being proactive, trading value for value, and persevering past obstacles in order to get one step closer to happiness.
But does every man feel like this at forty – I mean it’s like Thomas Wolfe’s New York, his heady light, the stunning plunging canyons...
Since 2006, the most objective presentations of conservative views to be heard in Manhattan have probably been those offered at a program...
Solomon L. Wisenberg, guest-blogging at White Collar Crime Pof Blog, writes about the SEC’s total defeat in the insider-trading case of SEC
Bill Mensching has aged a painting four hundred years, created a gigantic glass mural for a hotel in Las Vegas, and shipped the makings of..
er 2010 issue -- We’ve launched. Yes, we threw the switch and nothing blew up. On our new website that is. You can find it at www.atlassociety.org/tni. This is the new home for our print magazine as well as for web-only features. Each article comes with an “auto-podcasting” feature—meaning you can listen to any TNI print article over your computer speakers, or you can download it as an mp3 file. Now you can listen to TNI on a train, in a plane, or in a box with a fox. Anywhere you like. You also won’t want to miss our Live Discussions—text-based Q&A with various authors and opinion leaders. The TNI web home is part of a larger web-world, produced by our publisher, The Atlas Society. Visit the section next to TNI, and you’ll find the society’s new Business Rights Center, headed by the irreplaceable Roger Donway. Don’t miss his “Business Rights Watch” blog. You can also find interactive webinars to attend, free of charge, on intriguing issues, like individual rights. Understanding these issues will help you to understand the “clockwork” behind current events. The interactivity includes live opinion polling, Q&A, and virtual breakout rooms for concurrent discussions on different topics.
America is on the verge of a major economic and political crisis. Accordingly, it is a time for a transformative vision of society, a vision
The Atlas Society promotes open Objectivism: the philosophy of reason, individualism, achievement, and freedom originated by Ayn Rand....
Do you remember slam! that orange moon Just blazing big against the South Beach sky? We idled by those bumpy stuccoed walls, Still warm—in melon, pink, chartreuse. And I, I said, “The moonlight slips right through the bars, For trysts in gardens when a lover comes.” Insistent sambas, smells of rum, made night As musky as perfume the dancing warms. We followed sounds of crazy, happy Cuban Carcajada, right up an outdoor stair To where that moon punched pow! into that blue: You with shoulders silvery and soft and bare. Across the table, I fidgeted and grinned: At you? Those Cuban babes? Quien sabe? And you just said: “Oh God, it's getting late,” And our last moon, bam! was gone, gone away. spiderID=619
The Gulf Spill: This ( “Beyond Pathetic”) is an absolutely not-to-be-missed article by Andrew B. Wilson, published in The Weekly Standard. He presents with much more evidence the thesis that I was trying to develop in an earlier blog post about the coporate culture of BP under John Browne. And there is a larger issue here: the dividing line does not run between corporations and government, but between pro-capitalists (businessmen and politicians) and--something else. My friend Rob Bradley calls them “political capitalists,” but I refuse to use that term because it was made popular in the 1960s by the infinitely odious Gabriel Kolko. Many people use the term “crony capitalists,” but that is wrong also--because it implies that a kind of capitalism involved. As a commenter on Ira Stoll’s blog “The Future of Capitalism” wrote: “Quit calling it crony capitalism. Just call it Cronyism—it's shorter, deletes the unimportant word, focuses on the important one. It is just the same as crony socialism or crony pflugerism. The issue is the cronyism, and it's the cronyism that causes all the rules of equal justice to break down.”
On Cope’s book, Experiments in Musical Intelligence: “In twenty years of working in artificial intelligence, I have run across nothing more thought-provoking than David Cope’s Experiments in Musical Intelligence. What is the essence of musical style, indeed of music itself? Can great new music emerge from the extraction and recombination of patterns in earlier music? Are the deepest of human emotions triggerable by computer patterns of notes?
The son of a frustrated concert pianist, Cope remembers crawling around under his father’s piano listening to the music of Chopin, Schumann, and Rachmaninov. “No matter how hard I tried I could not escape from the fact that I was a musician, and that was my destiny,” Cope explains. “Music is what I am.”
Ask Jeannette Claudine Romeu what she does, and you’ll get a collection of answers. The fifth-generation musician is by turns a pianist...
The piano prelude begins insistently, with a loud, rhythmic figure repeated immediately at a lower register. The music winds up and down
Like any story relying on the fantastic, the superhero film has a test: does the fantastic sharpen and enhance the theme and the conflicts..
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY SAW more deaths from wars than at any time in human history—some 15 million in World War I and 60 million in World....