The Washington Post Fails To Do Its Homework on Ayn Rand’s Philosophy: Objectivism
CULTURE
Occidental College Responds to 9/11 Attack on Free Speech
On the 15th anniversary of the worst domestic terrorist attack in history—September 11—a college student’s memorial flag display was destroyed three times.
Random Thoughts November 2016
Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?
Manorial and Guild Systems: The Institutions and Economics of the Middle Ages, Part 1
Political, social, and economic life in the Middle Ages revolved around two sets of institutions.
Touching The Art: Illustrations of Scenes from Ayn Rand’s Legendary Novel The Fountainhead
A bit about my recent illustrations of scenes from The Fountainhead.
The Ancient Romans: From Rule of Law to Price Controls
The area in which the Ancient Romans did leave a body of thought, and one that has had lasting influence and significance for future generations, especially in the West up until our own time was in the area of law and contract.
Movie Review: The Birth of a Nation (2016)
The controversial film about America’s 1831 slave rebellion undercuts the nature and power of Nat Turner’s story and makes everything seem too pat.
The Lure of Baseball
Watching sports satisfies a vital human need.
The New Black Segregation at California State University is Still Racism
The civil rights movement started out in the 1950s and 1960s as against white-black segregation. And now, half a century later, we’re back to full-fledged white-black segregation at California state schools.
Ludwig von Mises’s Majestic Magnum Opus, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
Ludwig von Mises’s majestic magnum opus, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, was published on September 14, 1949. In the nearly seven decades since its appearance, Human Action has come to be recognized as one of the truly great classics of modern economics.
Movie Review: Sully
Clint Eastwood (Jersey Boys, American Sniper, Gran Torino, Invictus) made another little character masterpiece with Sully, starring Tom Hanks as Captain Chesley Sullenberger. Review by Scott Holleran
Celebrating Work: A Crucially Important Value
Work is a crucially important value. When productive, work gives us not only the material means of survival and enjoyment of life, but it is also the main source of self-esteem and provides a central purpose that makes the rest of our values achievable by helping priori…
Despite The Positive Aspects of Capitalism, Anti-Capitalism Still Haunts the World
Let us not forget that over the last hundred years virtually every form of collectivism has been tried – socialism, communism, fascism, Nazism, interventionism, welfare statism – and each has failed. There is only one “ism” left to fill this vacuum in the face o…
Witness to the End of Soviet Power – Twenty-Five Years Ago
The Soviet nightmare of “socialism-in-practice” was over.
The FBI Knew Jihadis were Targeting Garland, Texas Free Speech Event
“It’s a whole other thing if you’re encouraging and cheering on the proposed murder of Americans who are standing in defense of the freedom of speech, and then not doing anything about it. Why did the FBI only have one agent there? And not a team waiting for them to…
VanDamme Academy: A Documentary Project
This video is a glimpse into the world of VanDamme Academy – a world we hope to share even more, in a full documentary.
Proud To Be An American?
The American Spirit of Independence, Innovation and Benevolence
American Capitalism Means Individualism and Freedom, Not Government Paternalism
Too many in the older generation in America have lost their understanding of what freedom means and why constitutionally limited government is both necessary and desirable. And the vast majority of the young have never been taught in our government-run schools the ideas…
Speed Up by Slowing Down
Speed up confusing, bogged-down tasks by slowing down your thinking.
Confusing The Political Corruption of “Crony Capitalism” with The Economic Freedom of Real Capitalism
The good name of “capitalism” has to be recaptured and restored, just as the good name and concept of “liberalism,” rightly understood, should be returned to the advocates of individual liberty and free enterprise.
Fear of Aging
Q: I’m terribly afraid of aging. I’m only in my forties, but I think about it a lot. Is there anything you can do to help? A: You’re aging — we’re all aging — from the minute we’re born. Ruminating about something over which...
Karl Marx’s Communist Theory of the “Injustice” of Capitalism
Nothing that Lenin or Stalin implemented in Soviet Russia or Mao in China, for example, was not called for or implied in Marx’s own writings and arguments.
How Stalin Used Hitler To Start World War II
It is estimated that as many as 64 million innocent men, women and children were killed in the Soviet Union in the name of building the socialist workers’ paradise.”
Fighting Over Transgender Bathrooms While America Burns
Bathrooms are among the most private of private property. We don’t need government determining the make-up or use of bathrooms.
A Superior Vision
The immorality associated with violation of the principle of self-ownership lies at the root of problems that could lead to our doom as a great nation.
Educational Socialism versus the Free Market for Education
What is needed is a radical change, and in my opinion, this means the denationalization, the full and complete privatization of schooling from kindergarten through graduate education.
Campus Lunacy, Part II
On the hypocrisy behind the student renaming craze.
Attacking The American Founding Fathers
The teaching establishment, at our public schools and colleges, is being used to undermine American values.
Does Acting Morally Cost You?
Whether you believe that acting morally costs or pays depends on your view of morality.
College Campus Lunacy
Nothing opens the closed minds of administrators better than the sounds of pocketbooks snapping shut.
James Madison: Father of the Constitution
Madison, who would become known as the “Father of the Constitution,” argued that in a pure democracy, “there is nothing to check the inducement to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.”
Individualism and Capitalism vs. Marxian Gender and Race Conflict: Trigger Words and College Safe Spaces
In our post-Soviet era, the Marxian framework and mind games have been transformed into issues concerning “gender” and “race” as well as “social class.”
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