Art is widely thought of as indefinable, inherently subjective, and disconnected from any practical need or concern. Many modern thinkers
Art is widely thought of as indefinable, inherently subjective, and disconnected from any practical need or concern. Many modern thinkers
May, 2000 -- Douglas Den Uyl's new "reader's companion" to The Fountainhead is a curiosity, for it is a work of literary criticism focused
With his virtual tie in the Iowa Caucuses, Rick Santorum is the final flavor-of-the-week conservative alternative to former Massachusetts Go
We at the Atlas Society and its Business Rights Center mourn the passing of Professor Larry Ribstein, who died of a stroke on December 24...
We at the Atlas Society and its Business Rights Center mourn the passing of Professor Larry Ribstein, who died of a stroke on December 24...
When I think of Christmas, I think about gathering with family, sharing bounteous feasts, warming up in front of a roaring fire after...
Winter 2011 issue -- Shouldn’t all parents want to raise their kids to think well? But if you ask most parents what that means or how they
The revelries of the December holiday season inevitably are accompanied by sober inquiries about the “true” meaning of Christmas and, too of
The Christmas catalogs start arriving in September, a trickle that becomes a flood by Thanksgiving. They pile up in colorful drifts until it
Everyone who has seen South Pacific will remember Oscar Hammerstein II’s lyrics about the prejudice that Lieutenant Cable knows will keep hi
When he graduated from college, Dennis Byrd did the unexpected: he negotiated a deal to take over a failing beachfront restaurant. Byrd was
Newsflash: it’s a competitive world out there! Some of us are winning and some are losing. It’s the game of live-and-let-live together.
Americans are perhaps exceptional in the emphasis they put on creating a better tomorrow and a better self.
The murder took thirty-five minutes because the killer twice left the scene and returned to continue the assault. Afterward, thirty-seven...
Just 10 years ago 3G and Bluetooth were in their infancy; Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube didn’t exist; and there were no mobile app stores.
Fall 2011 issue -- My father passed in July 2011, and it was a time of great reflection for my family and me. Hearing of Steve Jobs’ passing
Ayn Rand was that most delightful of philosophers—the philosopher who proposes large and interesting theories, and allows them to remain...
The first decade of the twenty-first century was defined by Islamists, who used planes as weapons against the World Trade Center and
That pithy advice, usually attributed to Henry Ford, expresses one of the most frequent themes in the vast literature of self-improvement...
The major German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote that the debt-ceiling battle in Washington had a “civil war atmosphere.” But the war...