One of the book’s best chapters is “Under Capitalism Man Envies Man; Under Socialism, Vice Versa”—a title that calls to mind the pithy jabs
It’s a natural progression. Americans are generous and don’t wish to impute evil to anyone, so we usually write it off as bluff and bluster
Vince Flynn has written many compelling yarns, but his own story may be the most inspiring. It’s the tale of a kid from a big Midwestern fam
Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War, “If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” This dictum threatens to be prophetic in the West’s war against Islamic jihad. Our failure to understand the true origins and nature of jihad is as dangerous as our blindness to our own peculiar cultural weaknesses. As Lee Harris argues in his new book, both failures of knowledge are contributing to the “crash of Western civilization.”
ROM THE ARCHIVES: May 2008 -- Late last February, Michelle Obama spoke to a group of voters in Zanesville, Ohio, which is a relatively poor city whose median household income is less than $40,000 a year and 20 percent of whose adults lack even a high school education. In her conversation with the audience, Obama (Princeton ’85; Harvard Law ’88) warned them, somewhat superfluously it would seem, about the sin of avarice and the camel’s difficulty in passing through the needle’s eye.
May 2008 -- Whenever the media are not bashing business for being insufficiently green, or for exploiting various groups, they are advocating that businesses be more “socially involved.” This is certainly true with the cries to help education. With increasing frequency, the notion is promoted in op-ed pages and commentaries that businesses should be doing more to help our schools or “partner with” the education system.
May 2008 -- One of my editorial pleasures is to be able to showcase fine thinkers who are willing and able to debate the implications of sha
While our bookstores and school library shelves are filled with biographies for young readers on sports heroes and politically correct
May 2008 -- The easy integration of natural-looking people and outdoor scenes is one of the hardest-won achievements in the history of art..
Ludwig von Mises and Ayn Rand share the distinction of being the leading voices for individual freedom and the market economy during the....
Simon Blackburn has an ambitious goal: to raise lust “from the category of sin to that of virtue.” His effort, Lust, is the third in a...
Scott Bullock joined the Institute for Justice at its founding in 1991 and serves as a senior attorney. He litigates property rights, free
This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 2000 online "CyberSeminar" entitled " Nietzsche and Objectivism ."
This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 2000 online "CyberSeminar" entitled " Nietzsche and Objectivism ."..
This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 2000 online "CyberSeminar" entitled " Nietzsche and Objectivism ...
I think the ongoing debate on the CyberSeminar about whether Nietzsche was anti-Semitic, whether his writings fueled the rise of National
It is no easy task trying to understand what Nietzsche’s views on metaphysics and epistemology are. Beyond getting past Nietzsche’s manner..
This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 2000 online "CyberSeminar" entitled " Nietzsche and Objectivism ." I was glad to see Eyal
In this post, I briefly note some of the more interesting points that struck my notice in the second and third essays of The Genealogy of
One of the book’s best chapters is “Under Capitalism Man Envies Man; Under Socialism, Vice Versa”—a title that calls to mind the pithy jabs
It’s a natural progression. Americans are generous and don’t wish to impute evil to anyone, so we usually write it off as bluff and bluster
Vince Flynn has written many compelling yarns, but his own story may be the most inspiring. It’s the tale of a kid from a big Midwestern fam
Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War, “If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” This dictum threatens to be prophetic in the West’s war against Islamic jihad. Our failure to understand the true origins and nature of jihad is as dangerous as our blindness to our own peculiar cultural weaknesses. As Lee Harris argues in his new book, both failures of knowledge are contributing to the “crash of Western civilization.”
ROM THE ARCHIVES: May 2008 -- Late last February, Michelle Obama spoke to a group of voters in Zanesville, Ohio, which is a relatively poor city whose median household income is less than $40,000 a year and 20 percent of whose adults lack even a high school education. In her conversation with the audience, Obama (Princeton ’85; Harvard Law ’88) warned them, somewhat superfluously it would seem, about the sin of avarice and the camel’s difficulty in passing through the needle’s eye.
May 2008 -- Whenever the media are not bashing business for being insufficiently green, or for exploiting various groups, they are advocating that businesses be more “socially involved.” This is certainly true with the cries to help education. With increasing frequency, the notion is promoted in op-ed pages and commentaries that businesses should be doing more to help our schools or “partner with” the education system.
May 2008 -- Whenever the media are not bashing business for being insufficiently green, or for exploiting various groups, they are advocating that businesses be more “socially involved.” This is certainly true with the cries to help education. With increasing frequency, the notion is promoted in op-ed pages and commentaries that businesses should be doing more to help our schools or “partner with” the education system.
May 2008 -- One of my editorial pleasures is to be able to showcase fine thinkers who are willing and able to debate the implications of sha
While our bookstores and school library shelves are filled with biographies for young readers on sports heroes and politically correct
May 2008 -- The easy integration of natural-looking people and outdoor scenes is one of the hardest-won achievements in the history of art..
Ludwig von Mises and Ayn Rand share the distinction of being the leading voices for individual freedom and the market economy during the....
Simon Blackburn has an ambitious goal: to raise lust “from the category of sin to that of virtue.” His effort, Lust, is the third in a...
Scott Bullock joined the Institute for Justice at its founding in 1991 and serves as a senior attorney. He litigates property rights, free
This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 2000 online "CyberSeminar" entitled " Nietzsche and Objectivism ."
This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 2000 online "CyberSeminar" entitled " Nietzsche and Objectivism ."..
This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 2000 online "CyberSeminar" entitled " Nietzsche and Objectivism ...
I think the ongoing debate on the CyberSeminar about whether Nietzsche was anti-Semitic, whether his writings fueled the rise of National
It is no easy task trying to understand what Nietzsche’s views on metaphysics and epistemology are. Beyond getting past Nietzsche’s manner..
This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 2000 online "CyberSeminar" entitled " Nietzsche and Objectivism ." I was glad to see Eyal
In this post, I briefly note some of the more interesting points that struck my notice in the second and third essays of The Genealogy of