Crisis in the GOP: The Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party
Fall 2006 -- Whether they win or lose a particular seat or chamber in Congress, we all still might be losers with the Republicans.read more
View ArticleAyn Rand's Stamp on American Culture
January/February 2006 -- Although Ayn Rand was born a century ago, and although she died a generation ago, her philosophy of Objectivism is among the most vital influences on contemporary American...
View ArticleImmigration, Liberty, and the American Character
Summer 2006 --“I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”–Ezra Lazarus, inscribed on the Statue of Liberty Immigration has become the most politically and emotionally charged domestic issue in the United...
View ArticleImmigration, Globalization, and the Philosophy That Informs Them
Summer 2006 -- Many Americans consider the issues of immigration and globalization principally from an economic perspective. And that perspective is indeed important. More significant, though, is the...
View ArticleElementary Lessons in Property Rights
June 2005 -- “A man’s home is his castle.”mericans recently learned that this is more than a mere cliché; it’s a profound philosophical principle that is under fire from the very institutions that are...
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Mohammad Cartoon Controversy: The Jihad Against Free Speech
Winter 2005 -- The West once again has been forced to confront the clash of cultures. Muslims worldwide rage and riot over Danish newspaper cartoons that, in their eyes, commit the double sin of...
View ArticleLoving the Doing
Fall 2011 issue -- Americans are perhaps exceptional in the emphasis they put on creating a better tomorrow and a better self. Counseling, therapy, and self-help books have long been a booming business...
View ArticleMake Trade, Not War
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY SAW more deaths from wars than at any time in human history—some 15 million in World War I and 60 million in World War II to name but the worst examples. But it also highlighted a...
View ArticleIndividualism in Orbit: Morality for the High Frontier
July/August 2007 -- Today, we live “in the future”—the future that for decades had been depicted in science fiction, pursued by scientists and engineers, and hoped for by optimistic individuals...
View ArticleGetting to Our Fantastic, Non-fictional Future
Winter 2010 -- In turbulent times like ours, many individuals retreat into a better, fictitious inner world. Some imagine an ancient, Atlantis-like Golden Age. Others live in an internet Sim City game...
View ArticleFreedom's Filmmakers
March 2007 -- Friends of freedom in America and elsewhere are often distressed that much of popular culture, especially on movie and TV screens, is dominated by those who would limit liberty. Thus, it...
View ArticleDie Walkure in DC: Blight at the Opera
June 2007 -- I love opera! Thus recently I saw Die Walküre, the second installment of Richard Wagner’s monumental, four-part Ringcycle, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The music, singing, and...
View ArticleBook Reviews: From Faith to Force
May 2007 -- Sam Harris, The End of Faith (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 2004), 256 pp., $24.95. Editor's Picks read more
View ArticleAtlas Shrugged as Prophecy
October 2007 -- In the newsrooms of New York, in the corridors of Congress, and in the parlors of political parties, prognostication is the always the order of the day. In what direction is the stock...
View ArticleAmerica’s Pioneer Spirit: Government vs. New Frontiers
Pioneers have a vision of something better.read more
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