I have always disliked that weird hybrid of fact and fiction known as the "docudrama." An inherently dishonest contrivance, it jumbles actua
The essence of what makes fantasy popular is that it takes the reader out of his normal life into an extraordinary, value-laden, and highly
Why should we acquiesce when governments take our money? We would be upset if thugs stole our wallets at gunpoint or thieves broke into our
With American forces still in Iraq and the country frequently in a high state of terrorist alert, we go about our daily lives with a
Atlas Summit 2013 -- Energy is at the center of Atlas Shrugged, whether in the present with Wyatt Oil and Danagger Coal or in the future
I consider Bob Elliott a friend. We’ve traveled thousands of miles together. He’s made me laugh so hard I cried. Once, after he cracked a...
Jennifer Burns’s engaging new biography of Ayn Rand focuses on Rand’s political and social views and on her connection to the Right in
Those are not the kind of questions Landrum wants to be answering. “I’m looking for people who don’t need a lot of guidance,” he tells me...
According to the American Cancer Society, an expected 1.5 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year, and around
David Segal begins his extended New York Times story on the SEC’s suit against Sam and Charles Wyly with several paragraphs denigrating
I would like to start by asking you all to secure yourselves in your seats. If you have any pointy objects, make sure they are facing away
Consider the following situation. It is 1963. You are a twenty-one-year-old graduate of Tuskegee University, rooming in Washington, D.C....
December 2004 -- There is much to celebrate on the occasion of the Ayn Rand centenary. Books on Rand and Rand citations in the scholarly
Part of the frustration we feel at these shortages is caused by the very price-gouging laws that our elected officials assure us are for...
December 2004 -- Ayn Rand was an advocate of both egoism and rights. As an advocate of egoism, she held that the individual ought not to
A few years ago, a colleague whose intelligence I respect invited me to attend a lecture he was going to give. "This will not be one of.....
December 2004 -- Ayn Rand was no academic, and people sometimes point to that fact to explain the lack of scholarly consideration given
December 2004 -- Ayn Rand acknowledged Aristotle as the only philosopher to whom she was indebted, the father of logic who defined "the bas
September 2004 -- As John Enright notes , there is a wealth of poetry about political and personal freedom. I thought Navigator's readers
I've gathered for you some poems that celebrate political and personal freedom. I like them, and I hope you will like them, too. This is onl
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