CULTURE
Inconvenient Historical Truths From ‘Black History Month’
A few historical and inconvenient notes left on the cutting room floor during Black History Month.
Making Resolutions Outlast January
As Ayn Rand put it, a value is something you act to gain or keep. A desire without action then is just a wish.
Why America’s Land Isn’t Stolen
What conquest built justified the conquest—not because the process was clean, but because the result expanded human freedom and flourishing beyond what existed before.
Black History or “Sins of White People” Month?
What is called Black History Month might more accurately be called “the sins of white people” month.
A Drag Queen in Every School?
Drag queens are the ultimate symbol of disrespect for women.
Ayn Rand: A Legacy of Reason and Freedom
Ayn Rand left a legacy in defense of reason and freedom that serves as a guidepost for the American spirit–especially pertinent today when America and what it stands for are under assault.
Don Lemon’s Crime Was Not Journalism
Defenders call this an attack on press freedom, an authoritarian assault on the First Amendment. They’re wrong. Lemon didn’t report a crime. He committed one.
How To Celebrate Ayn Rand’s Birthday
February 2nd is the birthday of Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Ayn Rand developed and defended Objectivism, a philosophy that advocates “rational selfishness.”
The Famous Mike Wallace Interview with Ayn Rand
This video of America’s greatest philosopher, Ayn Rand, might be the most important interview you have ever watched.
What Was The Real Ayn Rand Like?
Peikoff offers personal insights into the real Ayn Rand—the thinker, the artist, the teacher, the passionate valuer of the best within man.
Howard Roark and the Great Heroes of Literature
Literature—my favorite field. Heroism—my favorite topic.
Dilbert Creator Scott Adams and Intellectual Courage
It was in 2015 that the famed creator of the Dilbert cartoon first started speculating that Donald Trump had what it takes to become president. For holding this view, and then becoming ever more open about his support of Trump, Adams lost everything.
The Legacy of Alexander Hamilton
Hamilton did not as treasury secretary implement, or espouse, any system of protective tariffs or bounties.
Books: A Rebel in Eden: The War Between Individualism and Environmentalism
A Rebel in Eden: The War Between Individualism and Environmentalism, by Robert Bidinotto, explains the philosophic foundations of the modern political movement, theories that, in some cases, go back centuries.
Why Do New Year’s Resolutions Typically Fail?
If you want your New Year’s resolutions to be completed, take the steps needed to really commit to it.
Happy New Year. Happy Life.
Your life is in your own hands.
Heritage Doesn’t Make Somebody an American
If seriously embraced, a blood and dirt conception of Americanness would destroy one of the most essential elements that make this country so successful and perhaps even its existence.
Christmas is About Enjoying Values Not Sacrificing Them
Those who feel guilt over material wealth and blame business for commercializing Christmas through ‘greedy’ profit seeking should pause and ask: “What is the standard of value by which we condemn material wealth and business?”
The “Heritage American” Myth
Descendants of founders are heirs; newcomers are employees. Both contribute, but only heirs embody the founder’s vision. Every nation has a core ethnic group—France has the French, Japan the Japanese. Why shouldn’t America acknowledge its Anglo-Protestant core? It’s a reasonable-sounding argument. It’s also completely wrong.
Christmas Should Be More Commercial
It is time to take the Christ out of Christmas, and turn the holiday into a guiltlessly egoistic, pro-reason, this-worldly, commercial celebration.
An American Holiday: The Moral Meaning Behind Thanksgiving
Ayn Rand described Thanksgiving as “a typically American holiday . . . its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.”
The Real Meaning of Thanksgiving: The Triumph of Capitalism over Collectivism
In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism.
The Big Lie in Hollywood: The Hollywood Ten Were Not Victims But Villains
Selling “The Big Lies” helps Hollywood to keep alive the fantasy that the Left is the victim rather than the perpetrator of injustice.
Columbus Day: A Time to Celebrate
Underlying the political collectivism of the anti-Columbus crowd is a racist view of human nature.
A Black Hole in Economics: Money Creation and its Consequences
How money is created, how governments exploit the process to siphon your wealth, and what you must do to prosper in an era of financial repression.
The Kirk Assassination: A Nihilistic Farce in the Theater of the Absurd
The assassination of Charlie Kirk is not your garden-variety spasm of partisan idiocy or sectarian spite.
Evil Flourishes When Reason is Abandoned
. Charlie Kirk was correct when he said, “When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence.” But it is even more accurate to say, as Ayn Rand pointed out, “When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.”
Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man by Timothy Sandefur
Frederick Douglass unique contribution to American political philosophy is well summarized in the contrast between the mottos he and Garrison used for their newspapers. Instead of Garrison’s call for separation, “no union with slaveholders,” Douglass demanded equality: “All rights for all. ”
Campus Progressives Preach Tolerance — and Produce Violence
Defining words as a form of violence creates a permission structure for actual violence.
Lewis and Clark College Dishonors Pioneers
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were pioneers.
This Labor Day Celebrate The Human Mind
On Labor Day, let us honor the true root of production and wealth: the human mind.
Movies: “Eddington” Plunges Viewers Right Back to 2020
The truth is that the Covid years are the prism through which most everything else playing out in public affairs today can be read. Truth is stranger than fiction, but this fiction works beautifully precisely because it comes so very close to telling the truth in every grim detail.
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