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The first was the “Green Police” advertisement for Audi that was broadcast during this year’s Super Bowl. It starts with a clerk asking a...
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The first was the “Green Police” advertisement for Audi that was broadcast during this year’s Super Bowl. It starts with a clerk asking a...
The earthquake in Haiti that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and inflicted untold misery on the inhabitants of that country has
Ayn Rand is best known for her novels, which continue to sell hundreds of thousands of copies each year, and for her philosophical essays on
In the last lecture, we looked at those arguments that won the debate for free speech. Historically, those arguments were nested in
In Tokyo, 94% of women in their 20s own a Louis Vuitton bag. Hong Kong boasts more Gucci and Hermes stores than Paris. China’s passion for l
Begin with the title. An “outlier,” in statistics, is an observation so far outside the general range of one’s data as to indicate a possibl
Liberals have given conservatives much grief over the years for advocating an abstinence-only approach to sex education. “Kids are going....
When Washington Post reporter Brooke Masters set out to write this thorough account of Eliot Spitzer’s career as attorney general of New....
Marxism and Objectivism are similar in very few respects: —They are systems of thought. But Marxism is primarily a political and economic
September 8, 2005 -- Another example of how Europeans and Americans are drifting apart culturally and politically can be seen in the film
June 12, 2009 -- Americans are historically a generous people. Thus it’s shocking to see the National Committee for Responsible Philanthropy
December 10, 2003 -- Rarely has the moral decadence of the philosophy that places "society" above the individual been better illustrated...
April 22, 2002 -- President Bush has declared the fourth week of April to be National Volunteer Week. This is a follow-up to his call for al
July 20, 2004--It has been three and a half decades now since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first of a dozen men to walk on the
January 1, 2001 -- "Is civilization really going down the tube?" asked New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman in an article entitled...
July 25, 2001 -- This week, people will travel inexpensively from all over the globe to Genoa, Italy—to protest the policies that made their
“What is required of us now,” said President Barack Obama in his inaugural speech, “is a new era of responsibility—a recognition, on the....
More than 200 years ago, Adam Smith determined that economic self-interest advanced the wider commercial good as if led by an invisible hand
What has prompted people, over the course of three millennia, to look upon work and commerce as degrading and deceitful? Why have they
Ayn Rand published her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged in 1957. It's an enduringly popular novel -- all 1,168 pages of it -- with some 150,000