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Amongst the Believers

On the 16th of October, 2010, I tramped into London along with two thousand other minds to attend The Amazing Meeting, the major conference

Apr 12, 2011
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Hugo Schmidt
8 Mins
A River Ran Through It

Spring 2011 -- THE WATER began swallowing Susan Lemaster’s home at 2 a.m. July 22. She was sleeping when her 27-year-old daughter, trembling

Apr 12, 2011
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Sarah Perry
10 Mins
The Postmodern Assault on Reason

Stephen Hicks, PhD is The Atlas Society Senior Scholar. He teaches philosophy at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois.

Apr 5, 2011
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15 Mins
Atlas Shrugged as Literature

One day in the 1940’s, a young reporter asked Ayn Rand about the new novel he heard that she was planning.

Apr 5, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
8 Mins
Ayn Rand and Reason

Ayn Rand 's ideas inspired many people; one of them was me. When I began reading Atlas Shrugged in the summer of 1964, I had no idea that

Apr 5, 2011
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Robert Poole
2 Mins
Freedom of Religion and Freedom to Value

When I say 'capitalism,' I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism—with a separation of state and economics, in the

Apr 2, 2011
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6 Mins
Where Is Today's Mrs. Miniver?

Winter 2005 -- If you’ve never seen Mrs. Miniver—the award-winning 1942 film about a middle-class British family courageously facing their

Mar 31, 2011
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Michelle Marder Kamhi
4 Mins
Book Review: Exposing the Islamist Lobby

Paul Sperry’s shoe-leather investigative journalism is showcased to its fullest in Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penet

Mar 31, 2011
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Ilana Mercer
9 Mins
When Lying Is a Good Thing: You Can't Handle the Truth!

March 2005 -- "You can't handle the truth!" says Jack Nicholson in the climax of the 1992 movie A Few Good Men. This is a good theme for

Mar 31, 2011
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Fred Cookinham
10 Mins
Sidebar: The Cast of Mad Hot Ballroom

Class teacher Allison Sheniak is a loving, caring teacher who has a way of making you "feel her pain."

Mar 30, 2011
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Dr. David Kelley
2 Mins
Multiculturalism and its Discontents

July/August 2005 -- England's multicultural delusions were literally exploded this past summer when British citizens, children of Islamic...

Mar 30, 2011
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Bruce S. Thornton
10 Mins
Raising the Standards

Fall 2005 -- When Frank Sinatra died in the spring of 1998, many critics and music lovers lamented his passing as “the end of an era.” The

Mar 30, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
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TV Review: Monk

New episodes of the hit detective program Monk, starring Tony Shalhoub, air on the USA Network on Fridays

Mar 30, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
6 Mins
Film Review: Mad Hot Ballroom

Mad Hot Ballroom. Director, Marilyn Agrelo; writer, Amy Sewell; director of photography, Claudia Raschke-Robinson; editor, Sabine Krayenbuhl

Mar 30, 2011
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Dr. David Kelley
6 Mins
What Are Creationists Afraid Of?

This year marks the eightieth anniversary of the 1925 trial of John Scopes, who was accused of violating Tennessee’s prohibition on teaching

Mar 30, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
10 Mins
Charles Tomlinson's Wonderful Life

January/February 2005 -- Charles Tomlinson, a long-time supporter of The Atlas Society (publisher of The New Individualist), died Tuesday...

Mar 30, 2011
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William Perry
3 Mins
Sovietizing America: How Sustainable Development Crushes the Individual

April/May 2005 -- An unrecognized threat to the liberty and prosperity of each American has spread throughout the country, taking root in

Mar 29, 2011
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Michael Shaw and Edward Hudgins
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Book Review: In Praise of Productive Men

March 2006 --Charles R. Morris, The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan Invented the American

Mar 29, 2011
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5 Mins
Film Review: Just Say "Maybe" to This Trip

November 2006 -- A Scanner Darkly. Starring Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Rory Cochrane, Winona Ryder. Based on the nove

Mar 29, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
4 Mins
Book Review: Real Heroes for Children

Young children are captivated by stories of imaginary heroes and heroines whose struggles and successes are set in mythical lands or

Mar 29, 2011
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Marsha Enright
5 Mins

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