“In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand described what is surely one of the most emotionally charged tennis matches ever played. But her connection
A new collection of the former President's private letters reveals that Ronald Reagan was a fan of Ayn Rand's work. On pages 281-82 of......
It's official: Angelina Jolie is set to star in the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. David Kelley, Founder and Senior Fellow of
When Congress declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894 it marked not only a celebration by workers but a division of Americans into groups often seen as opposed to one another. The day grew out of a desire to get governments to force employers to offer certain terms of employment to workers. The first Labor Day parade took place in 1882 in New York and was organized by Peter McGuire who helped found the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions. The "labor" involved were salaried and industrial workers and tradesmen. Not included were employers, owners, investors, managers, professionals and farmers; the latter for the most part owned their own means of production: their farms.
Frank Quattrone has just become the greatest businessman in three generations to escape the anti-business persecutions of twentieth-century
Editor's Note: This article references a now-defunct website published by the Atlas Society years ago. On this current site, you can find
Let's do a tax day thought experiment. Let's pretend that you rather than politicians and unelected government bureaucrats controlled how you spend your own money. If you are in an average American family the federal government takes around 25 percent of your income for various taxes. Check out your W-2 form. You’ll also see that your state and possibly your city and country take their cut, probably another 10 percent. If you own land you pay real estate taxes. Every time you go to the store you pay sales taxes. When you fill up your vehicle you pay 18 cents per gallon of gasoline in federal taxes and another quarter in state taxes. Add to that the extra costs of tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers that mean you pay more for everything from shirts to shoes to sugar. Once you add it up we pay perhaps 40 percent or more in taxes, tens of thousands of dollars.
Fraud. Though I hadn’t really planned for that to be the unifying subject of this issue, it’s a theme that seems to run through most of the articles. This month’s contributors probe many forms of fraud—criminal, political, cultural, and intellectual. And though it may not an inspiring survey, it’s certainly a revealing one. Exposing spiritual charlatans, scientific quacks, and philosophic irrationalists is a central preoccupation of contemporary skeptics and secular humanists—people who share with rational individualists a basic commitment to reason over faith. Ed Hudgins recently attended a conference of skeptics , trying to determine if that mutual commitment might provide opportunities for broader collaborations. In his report on the event, Ed explains why he found grounds for optimism—albeit cautious optimism.
Robert L. Bradley Jr. was a long-time employee of Enron Corporation, the collapsed corporate giant. During the company’s last seven years he
Our Winter 2006 issue earned considerable attention as the first magazine in America to reprint, on its front cover, one of those now-notorious Danish cartoons of Muhammad. In the same issue, I editorially lambasted the rest of the Western media for surrendering to militant Islamists, and for refusing to publish these cartoons as a matter of principle. But the contagion of craven capitulation has spread faster than the bird flu. Shortly afterwards, the Comedy Central cable TV network blacked out a cartoon image of Mohammad on an episode of its popular animated show, “South Park”—an episode which, ironically, satirized the media for its cowardice on that very issue! Then the Borders Books retail chain publicly announced that it was banishing from its shelves an issue of a magazine, Free Inquiry (yet more irony), which had reprinted the Muhammad cartoons inside.
The West once again has been forced to confront the clash of cultures. Muslims worldwide rage and riot over Danish newspaper cartoons that..
I’m doing an autobiography. My long-time friend and colleague, Thomas Sowell, wrote an autobiography, A Personal Odyssey. He’s been after
Editor’s Desk, Jan-Feb, 2006 Okay, folks—lighten up, now. I’m sure that when you first saw the cover, you wondered if you had received People or Us by mistake. Or, if we had suddenly “sold out” and decided to join the gossip press, simply in order to increase circulation.the new individualist magazine celebrity ayn rand fans Relax. Our cover is just a lighthearted parody of celebrity magazines, and their breathless headlines about the private lives of the rich and famous. But in this case, the parody is meant to underscore to a serious point: Ayn Rand has become part of the cultural mainstream. When A-list, p.r.-savvy movie stars like “Brangelina,” Rob Lowe, and Jim Carrey are no longer afraid to publicly associate their names with Rand and her ideas, you know that something significant has happened. And they aren’t alone. That’s the phenomenon that this special issue of The New Individualist explores in depth.
“I’ve been very into Ayn Rand …” -Angelina Jolie, in a 2004 interview “When somebody breaks out and completely shatters the mold, it’s inspiring.” -Sandra Bullock on The Fountainhead “The writing is so beautiful” -Christina Ricci “By far the most incredible books I have read.” -Mayim Bialik “It had a profound effect on me.” -Hugh Hefner “The last book I read was the book I’ve been rereading most of my life— The Fountainhead .” -Vince Vaughn “What woman, living or dead, would you love to meet?” “... Ayn Rand .” -Rob Lowe, in an interview with Elle magazine “Self-confidence, rational, ambition, and lovability. Oh, and he has to be an Ayn Rand fan.” -Eva Mendes describing what she looks for in a man.
It was the evening of May 13, 2004, and on PBS-TV’s Charlie Rose Show the host was chatting with actor Brad Pitt about Troy...
But for advanced lessons in this craven policy, which I hereby dub “anticipatory capitulation,” I direct American “journalists” to study...
American homes on the fourth Thursday in November will fill with more than the aroma of turkey and pumpkin pie. Also in the air will be the
Early in her career, Ayn Rand worked in Hollywood as a screen writer. Her first film scenarios were never produced, and some have been lost.
There are holidays and days of commemoration stretching from New Year's to Independence Day to Christmas. A new one should be added to the
After each new suicide attack, as innocent blood flows in the streets of Baghdad, London, Madrid, or Tel Aviv, there is a surge of
“In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand described what is surely one of the most emotionally charged tennis matches ever played. But her connection
A new collection of the former President's private letters reveals that Ronald Reagan was a fan of Ayn Rand's work. On pages 281-82 of......
It's official: Angelina Jolie is set to star in the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. David Kelley, Founder and Senior Fellow of
When Congress declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894 it marked not only a celebration by workers but a division of Americans into groups often seen as opposed to one another. The day grew out of a desire to get governments to force employers to offer certain terms of employment to workers. The first Labor Day parade took place in 1882 in New York and was organized by Peter McGuire who helped found the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions. The "labor" involved were salaried and industrial workers and tradesmen. Not included were employers, owners, investors, managers, professionals and farmers; the latter for the most part owned their own means of production: their farms.
Frank Quattrone has just become the greatest businessman in three generations to escape the anti-business persecutions of twentieth-century
Editor's Note: This article references a now-defunct website published by the Atlas Society years ago. On this current site, you can find
Let's do a tax day thought experiment. Let's pretend that you rather than politicians and unelected government bureaucrats controlled how you spend your own money. If you are in an average American family the federal government takes around 25 percent of your income for various taxes. Check out your W-2 form. You’ll also see that your state and possibly your city and country take their cut, probably another 10 percent. If you own land you pay real estate taxes. Every time you go to the store you pay sales taxes. When you fill up your vehicle you pay 18 cents per gallon of gasoline in federal taxes and another quarter in state taxes. Add to that the extra costs of tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers that mean you pay more for everything from shirts to shoes to sugar. Once you add it up we pay perhaps 40 percent or more in taxes, tens of thousands of dollars.
Fraud. Though I hadn’t really planned for that to be the unifying subject of this issue, it’s a theme that seems to run through most of the articles. This month’s contributors probe many forms of fraud—criminal, political, cultural, and intellectual. And though it may not an inspiring survey, it’s certainly a revealing one. Exposing spiritual charlatans, scientific quacks, and philosophic irrationalists is a central preoccupation of contemporary skeptics and secular humanists—people who share with rational individualists a basic commitment to reason over faith. Ed Hudgins recently attended a conference of skeptics , trying to determine if that mutual commitment might provide opportunities for broader collaborations. In his report on the event, Ed explains why he found grounds for optimism—albeit cautious optimism.
Robert L. Bradley Jr. was a long-time employee of Enron Corporation, the collapsed corporate giant. During the company’s last seven years he
Our Winter 2006 issue earned considerable attention as the first magazine in America to reprint, on its front cover, one of those now-notorious Danish cartoons of Muhammad. In the same issue, I editorially lambasted the rest of the Western media for surrendering to militant Islamists, and for refusing to publish these cartoons as a matter of principle. But the contagion of craven capitulation has spread faster than the bird flu. Shortly afterwards, the Comedy Central cable TV network blacked out a cartoon image of Mohammad on an episode of its popular animated show, “South Park”—an episode which, ironically, satirized the media for its cowardice on that very issue! Then the Borders Books retail chain publicly announced that it was banishing from its shelves an issue of a magazine, Free Inquiry (yet more irony), which had reprinted the Muhammad cartoons inside.
The West once again has been forced to confront the clash of cultures. Muslims worldwide rage and riot over Danish newspaper cartoons that..
I’m doing an autobiography. My long-time friend and colleague, Thomas Sowell, wrote an autobiography, A Personal Odyssey. He’s been after
Editor’s Desk, Jan-Feb, 2006 Okay, folks—lighten up, now. I’m sure that when you first saw the cover, you wondered if you had received People or Us by mistake. Or, if we had suddenly “sold out” and decided to join the gossip press, simply in order to increase circulation.the new individualist magazine celebrity ayn rand fans Relax. Our cover is just a lighthearted parody of celebrity magazines, and their breathless headlines about the private lives of the rich and famous. But in this case, the parody is meant to underscore to a serious point: Ayn Rand has become part of the cultural mainstream. When A-list, p.r.-savvy movie stars like “Brangelina,” Rob Lowe, and Jim Carrey are no longer afraid to publicly associate their names with Rand and her ideas, you know that something significant has happened. And they aren’t alone. That’s the phenomenon that this special issue of The New Individualist explores in depth.
“I’ve been very into Ayn Rand …” -Angelina Jolie, in a 2004 interview “When somebody breaks out and completely shatters the mold, it’s inspiring.” -Sandra Bullock on The Fountainhead “The writing is so beautiful” -Christina Ricci “By far the most incredible books I have read.” -Mayim Bialik “It had a profound effect on me.” -Hugh Hefner “The last book I read was the book I’ve been rereading most of my life— The Fountainhead .” -Vince Vaughn “What woman, living or dead, would you love to meet?” “... Ayn Rand .” -Rob Lowe, in an interview with Elle magazine “Self-confidence, rational, ambition, and lovability. Oh, and he has to be an Ayn Rand fan.” -Eva Mendes describing what she looks for in a man.
It was the evening of May 13, 2004, and on PBS-TV’s Charlie Rose Show the host was chatting with actor Brad Pitt about Troy...
But for advanced lessons in this craven policy, which I hereby dub “anticipatory capitulation,” I direct American “journalists” to study...
American homes on the fourth Thursday in November will fill with more than the aroma of turkey and pumpkin pie. Also in the air will be the
Early in her career, Ayn Rand worked in Hollywood as a screen writer. Her first film scenarios were never produced, and some have been lost.
There are holidays and days of commemoration stretching from New Year's to Independence Day to Christmas. A new one should be added to the
After each new suicide attack, as innocent blood flows in the streets of Baghdad, London, Madrid, or Tel Aviv, there is a surge of