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Anger: The Seven Deadly Sins

Robert Thurman has always had a problem with his temper, he tells us in Anger, the fifth in a series of books about the seven deadly sins...

Sep 8, 2010
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Bradley Doucet
9 Mins
Book Review: "Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged"

BOOK REVIEW: Edward W. Younkins, Editor, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion (Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot

Sep 8, 2010
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William Thomas
6 Mins
Film Review: Offside

“Men and women are different,” says a frustrated soldier to a young girl who’s been questioning his authority in Jafar Panahi’s lighthearted

Sep 8, 2010
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Robert L. Jones
4 Mins
Huck Finn and the Nuremberg Rally

March 2006 -- Some of the most frightening images from Nazi Germany can be seen in Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will, the cinematic...

Sep 8, 2010
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Bruce S. Thornton
5 Mins
Sidebar: Pioneers of Egalitarianism

Richard Henry Tawney (1880–1962) was a British historian who spent most of his career at the London School of Economics. He wrote widely on

Sep 8, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
2 Mins
Rand Central Station

For quite a number of years, I’ve been conducting guided walking tours of New York City. These include “Revolutionary Manhattan,” a tour of

Sep 7, 2010
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Fred Cookinham
4 Mins
"Indoctrinate U"

As I don’t equate a movie’s budget with its worth, please don’t take it as a sobriquet that young director Evan Coyne Maloney’s recent..

Sep 7, 2010
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Robert L. Jones
6 Mins
The Servile Citizen

A large billboard in a local Metro station cautions passersby to “Cover your cough” and “Wash your hands frequently” when you have a cold...

Sep 7, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
6 Mins
What Shall We Do With a Bumptious Sailor?

Venter is the biochemist (and daredevil yachtsman) who directed a small corporate rival of the official U.S.-U.K. genome-sequencing team and

Sep 7, 2010
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10 Mins
Joan Kennedy Taylor Remembered

Joan Kennedy Taylor, a long-time associate of Ayn Rand and key participant in the beginnings of the Objectivist movement....

Sep 7, 2010
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3 Mins
The Decline of the East

March 2002 -- BOOK REVIEW: The Decline of the East What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. By Bernard Lewis.

Sep 7, 2010
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Entrepreneurship: Is Life Like That?

Summer 2009 -- In 1897, during the twilight of the Aesthetic Movement, the Reverend Emory Lyon wrote The Art of Living. At the beginning of

Sep 7, 2010
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10 Mins
All in Favor Say "I"

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded

Sep 7, 2010
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5 Mins
Reply to a Misanthrope

July/August 2008 -- I maintain an online blog (http://bidinotto.journalspace.com) that allows me to comment (and sometimes to rant) about

Sep 7, 2010
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Robert James Bidinotto
5 Mins
Succeeding by the Cowboy Code

July/August 2008 -- Every now and then, Larry Barnes rides his big brown horse, Duke, around town and at nearby tourist destinations...

Sep 7, 2010
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Fred Minnick
4 Mins
Beyond Good and Bad

February 2002 -- The virtue of selfishness has become a tough sell. Before September 11, one could score points for egoism by elaborating

Sep 7, 2010
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12 Mins
When Is a Fake a Fraud?

May 2002 -- Miss Cleo is in big trouble. In her TV commercials, she offers to tell her callers' fortunes, to divine their problems, and to

Sep 7, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Tower Cranes: An Appreciation

Tower cranes are ubiquitous here in Washington, D.C. They often dominate the skyline, especially on the eastern side of town where the arc

Sep 7, 2010
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James S. Robbins
5 Mins
Hollywood Applauds Terrorism

One would think that liberal screenwriters could concoct a fantasy about some guy pushed by capitalist oppression into open revolt, without

Sep 7, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
7 Mins
Two Cheers for John Tierney

February 2002 -- Why is the New York Times better on Tuesdays and Fridays than it is on any other day? Because on those days the paper's....

Sep 7, 2010
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5 Mins

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