The twentieth century was the high point of mass culture—or “the overculture” as some call it. Any culture that could produce Citizen Kane..
October 2007 -- (b. 1905, St. Petersburg, Russia) Philosophy saves us one mind at a time,
November 2007 -- Those of us who believe that ideas have consequences (in Richard Weaver’s famous dictum) also tend to believe that consequences have ideas—as their causes. When we are confronted by some large-scale intellectual, social, or cultural phenomenon, such as the early twentieth-century turn against capitalism, we suspect that the explanation is to be found among the philosophies of prior generations.
For several years, news stories have exposed the fact that the lifestyles of rich and famous environmentalists are anything but green.
No economist in the twentieth century was more popular and more closely identified with free markets than Milton Friedman (1912-2006)...
It’s hard to believe that Bruce Willis’s wisecracking NYPD detective John McClane has been absent from the big screen for a dozen years...
When I was a boy growing up in the suburbs of Baltimore, few songs stuck with me the way this one did. I think I was nine or ten, and upon..
September 2007 -- The May/June 2007 issue of Technology Review (MIT’s showcase of student, faculty, and alumni genius) is called “The Design
Rescue Dawn is a great, if flawed, motion picture. German director Werner Herzog’s inspiring biopic recounts a daring POW-camp escape during
Tara Smith’s new book, Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics, is not revolutionary, but it is a thorough and valuable work. Smith’s goal is, first....
The title of Al Gore’s new book illustrates why he is the perfect spokesman for the smug, soi-disant “reality-based community.” By calling
Teri Horton—a 73-year-old grandma and retired over-the-road truck driver with only an eighth-grade education—just won’t (in the words of
November 2007 -- Brink Lindsey, The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture. (New York: Collins, 2007)..
Atlas Shrugged is an extended cry against the oppression of creators, most particularly businessmen: the Atlases who bear this world on thei
On the night of October 1, 1993, twelve-year-old Polly Klaas—a pretty, straight-A student with laughing eyes and sun-streaked hair—was...
Through television, newspapers, radio, and advertising, the mass culture of the twentieth century created easily understandable points of..
May 2007 -- Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom, Why Truth Matters (New York: Continuum, 2006), 208 pp., $26.95.
May 2007 -- In the previous issue, I featured the worldview of a fictional character—counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer of the hit TV series “24.” Though wildly popular with the general public, Jack has been raising hackles in intellectual and political circles because (in the words of the show’s conservative executive producer, Joel Surnow) “He’s a patriot.” Or, as I put it, “he does what he must in order to protect his highest values: his family, his country, their freedom, their security."
Sam Harris opens The End of Faith with the story of a young man who boards a bus, carrying a bomb under his coat. He sits next to a middle..
Governments often get their wealth-destroying, morally depraved ideas from our often misnamed institutes of "higher learning." The latest...
The twentieth century was the high point of mass culture—or “the overculture” as some call it. Any culture that could produce Citizen Kane..
October 2007 -- (b. 1905, St. Petersburg, Russia) Philosophy saves us one mind at a time,
November 2007 -- Those of us who believe that ideas have consequences (in Richard Weaver’s famous dictum) also tend to believe that consequences have ideas—as their causes. When we are confronted by some large-scale intellectual, social, or cultural phenomenon, such as the early twentieth-century turn against capitalism, we suspect that the explanation is to be found among the philosophies of prior generations.
For several years, news stories have exposed the fact that the lifestyles of rich and famous environmentalists are anything but green.
No economist in the twentieth century was more popular and more closely identified with free markets than Milton Friedman (1912-2006)...
It’s hard to believe that Bruce Willis’s wisecracking NYPD detective John McClane has been absent from the big screen for a dozen years...
When I was a boy growing up in the suburbs of Baltimore, few songs stuck with me the way this one did. I think I was nine or ten, and upon..
September 2007 -- The May/June 2007 issue of Technology Review (MIT’s showcase of student, faculty, and alumni genius) is called “The Design
Rescue Dawn is a great, if flawed, motion picture. German director Werner Herzog’s inspiring biopic recounts a daring POW-camp escape during
Tara Smith’s new book, Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics, is not revolutionary, but it is a thorough and valuable work. Smith’s goal is, first....
The title of Al Gore’s new book illustrates why he is the perfect spokesman for the smug, soi-disant “reality-based community.” By calling
Teri Horton—a 73-year-old grandma and retired over-the-road truck driver with only an eighth-grade education—just won’t (in the words of
November 2007 -- Brink Lindsey, The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture. (New York: Collins, 2007)..
Atlas Shrugged is an extended cry against the oppression of creators, most particularly businessmen: the Atlases who bear this world on thei
On the night of October 1, 1993, twelve-year-old Polly Klaas—a pretty, straight-A student with laughing eyes and sun-streaked hair—was...
Through television, newspapers, radio, and advertising, the mass culture of the twentieth century created easily understandable points of..
May 2007 -- Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom, Why Truth Matters (New York: Continuum, 2006), 208 pp., $26.95.
May 2007 -- In the previous issue, I featured the worldview of a fictional character—counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer of the hit TV series “24.” Though wildly popular with the general public, Jack has been raising hackles in intellectual and political circles because (in the words of the show’s conservative executive producer, Joel Surnow) “He’s a patriot.” Or, as I put it, “he does what he must in order to protect his highest values: his family, his country, their freedom, their security."
Sam Harris opens The End of Faith with the story of a young man who boards a bus, carrying a bomb under his coat. He sits next to a middle..
Governments often get their wealth-destroying, morally depraved ideas from our often misnamed institutes of "higher learning." The latest...