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

The Iraq Charade

The headline of an Associated Press report from Tuesday declares, "Gaps Appear to Widen over Iraq within UN Security Council." The wording is, perhaps unintentionally, precise: the gaps only appear to be widening. The report informs us -- to no one's surprise, I hope...

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LAW

Silencing Opposition to Greens on Global Warming

Silencing Opposition to Greens on Global Warming

The petition I have referred to has no financial support from Exxon or any other company in the oil, coal, or natural gas industries. Can the same thing be said about governmental support of The Royal Society and the endless “studies” dedicated to advancing the Green agenda?

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POLITICS

Obamacare: Worst of Intentions

Democrats in the Senate warned in a recent letter to Speaker John Boehner that a repeal of Obamacare would have "unintended consequences." Incomparably worse than unintended consequences of repealing the 2,600-page health care scheme will be the law's intended...

A Philosopher Reflects on the Giffords Shooting

The shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, though a terrible tragedy, is not of historic significance. More significant is the efforts of the Left to blame this on the Right, particularly the Tea Party movement. The absurdity of these attempts is obvious, and...

The Hypocrisy Underlying Obama's Speech

For most people, a tragedy is a time to reflect. For a politician, especially one who has been given uncritical positive regard for all of his short career -- including his unearned rise to the Presidency of the United States -- Barack Obama has used a tragedy as an...

CULTURE

Looking Back

Looking Back

The New York City schools were among the best in the country in those days, better than they had been for the European immigrants before me and much better than they would be for the mass influx of blacks from the South after me.

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