Through television, newspapers, radio, and advertising, the mass culture of the twentieth century created easily understandable points of..
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...
Atlas Shrugged is an extended cry against the oppression of creators, most particularly businessmen: the Atlases who bear this world on thei
November 2007 -- Brink Lindsey, The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture. (New York: Collins, 2007)..
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
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
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....
Rescue Dawn is a great, if flawed, motion picture. German director Werner Herzog’s inspiring biopic recounts a daring POW-camp escape during
September 2007 -- The May/June 2007 issue of Technology Review (MIT’s showcase of student, faculty, and alumni genius) is called “The Design
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..
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...
No economist in the twentieth century was more popular and more closely identified with free markets than Milton Friedman (1912-2006)...
"Tea parties." "Going Galt." You've probably seen a growing number of references to these in the media, online, and on signs at rallies...
On January 1, Venezuela entered into its second month of a national work stoppage. Close to 90 percent of the working population refuses to
Every decade or so, a motion picture comes along that captures its subject’s heroic essence so perfectly that the
Say what you want about Martin Scorsese, auteur of the dark anti-hero aesthetic: The man’s clearly in love with Hollywood’s Golden Age....
So said James Clavell, an Australian immigrant to America who learned the fundamentals of the American outlook on life in a horrific...
When governments take too much money from productive individuals, not surprisingly individuals try to escape from their...
Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the...
May 2007 -- In the previous issue, I wrote: “I offer Pan’s Labyrinth as exhibit ‘A’ that the independent revolution is over.” After seeing
