The Self Under Siege: What Ayn Rand’s Epic Novel “The Fountainhead” Shows Us About the Societies We Build

Ayn Rand built five main characters in The Fountainhead who function as psychological archetypes, but her real achievement was more precise than that. She mapped five distinct textures of subjective experience that emerge from a single upstream choice: where does the self live?

Thinkers vs. Ragers: Epstein, Kirk, Iran—Same Grift, Different Day

Rachel Maddow monetizes liberal dread. Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens monetize your dread.

What a Rational Immigration System Actually Looks Like

Americans have a rational self-interest in admitting people who will strengthen that protection and excluding people who will undermine it.

WAR WITH IRAN

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WORLD

Free Elections in Iraq: Victory and Defeat

Free Elections in Iraq: Victory and Defeat

The defeatists have been defeated. Remember all the political outcries that the Iraqi elections should be postponed because it would be impossible to hold elections with terrorism rampant throughout the country? Fortunately, most Iraqis do not see the American media,...

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POLITICS

Doing Away With Ceiling Drama

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made news last week by proposing to transfer the Congressional prerogative to raise the debt ceiling to the President. The change would essentially do away with the meaningless debt ceiling debates that have become ritual kabuki in...

The Bum, the Cop and the Facts

This is about the barefoot Times Square bum bestowed with a pair of boots on a cold November night by a policeman whose act of charity was photographed by an Arizona tourist. The bum, it turns out, was seen last Sunday on the Upper West Side. The new boots, valued at...

Patriotic Millionaires Unmasked

Despite the breathless post-election "think pieces" that have drawn sweeping and deeply considered conclusions about the political drift of the country, at its core President Obama's re-election is easy to understand. He essentially promised millions of middle and...

CULTURE

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SCI-TECH

Value Created by First Martian Explorer

In my article "Mars: Who Should Own It," I stated: Whoever implements the concept of getting to Mars and living there turns a virtually worthless ball of rock into something of substantial value. Let's check my premises. First: Will Mars, after a successful mission,...

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