Skeptics and Humanists: Allies or Enemies of Individualism?
April 2006 --This past January, hundreds of skeptics and humanists gathered at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas for a three-day conference on “Science in Politics and the Politics of Science.” As...
View ArticleSecular Spirituality
December 2006 -- The fall season ushers in Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and, this year, Ramadan as well. Winter brings Christmas and Hanukkah. Spring takes us to Passover and Easter. And those are just...
View ArticleCrisis 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 ArticleThe Prophetic Atlas Shrugged
Fall 2009 -- Something remarkable has happened in 2009 showing why Ayn Rand’s epic novel Atlas Shrugged is enjoying a spike in popularity. Scores of citizens took to American streets in tea parties and...
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 ArticleTNI's Interview with Eduardo Marty
November 2006 -- In the early twentieth century, Argentina was one of the most prosperous countries in the world with one of the highest living standards. Rich in resources, a leading producer of beef...
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 ArticleWhat Are Creationists Afraid Of?
Fall 2005 -- This year marks the eightieth anniversary of the 1925 trial of John Scopes, who was accused of violating Tennessee’s prohibition on teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of the evolution of...
View ArticleThe Means and Ends of Islamists
July/August 2005 -- After each new suicide attack, as innocent blood flows in the streets of Baghdad, London, Madrid, or Tel Aviv, there is a surge of speculation about what motivates terrorists who...
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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 ArticleToward a Secular Moral Landscape
Spring 2011 -- After thousands of years of formal philosophizing and probably a hundred thousand of contemplation around prehistoric camp fires, is there finally proof that an objective moral standard...
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 ArticleThe Four “Cs” of Christmas
Our commercial, colorful, communal, and contemplative holiday seasonread more
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 Article