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Why Man Needs Art

Art is widely thought of as indefinable, inherently subjective, and disconnected from any practical need or concern. Many modern thinkers

Jan 25, 2012
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David Kelley, Ph.D.
7 Mins
A Philosopher Reads Fiction

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

Jan 25, 2012
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10 Mins
Rick Santorum: The Most Anti-Reagan Republican

With his virtual tie in the Iowa Caucuses, Rick Santorum is the final flavor-of-the-week conservative alternative to former Massachusetts Go

Jan 5, 2012
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Eddie Hudgins
4 Mins
In Memoriam: Larry Ribstein (1946)

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...

Jan 4, 2012
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3 Mins
In Memoriam: Larry Ribstein (1946

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...

Jan 4, 2012
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3 Mins
Better to Give? The Virtue of Selfishness at Christmas

When I think of Christmas, I think about gathering with family, sharing bounteous feasts, warming up in front of a roaring fire after...

Dec 21, 2011
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Bradley Doucet
8 Mins
Light Bulb Day: Celebrate Reason and Invention

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

Dec 21, 2011
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Debra Ross
6 Mins
The Four C's of Christmas

The revelries of the December holiday season inevitably are accompanied by sober inquiries about the “true” meaning of Christmas and, too of

Dec 21, 2011
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Eddie Hudgins
8 Mins
Of Catalogs and Consumption

The Christmas catalogs start arriving in September, a trickle that becomes a flood by Thanksgiving. They pile up in colorful drifts until it

Dec 20, 2011
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David Kelley, Ph.D.
5 Mins
You've Got to be Carefully Taught

Everyone who has seen South Pacific will remember Oscar Hammerstein II’s lyrics about the prejudice that Lieutenant Cable knows will keep hi

Dec 5, 2011
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3 Mins
The Chief Burger Flipper of Island Famous

When he graduated from college, Dennis Byrd did the unexpected: he negotiated a deal to take over a failing beachfront restaurant. Byrd was

Nov 11, 2011
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Sarah Perry
6 Mins
Losing While Winning

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.

Nov 11, 2011
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10 Mins
Loving the Doing

Americans are perhaps exceptional in the emphasis they put on creating a better tomorrow and a better self.

Nov 11, 2011
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Eddie Hudgins
10 mins
Helping Hands

The murder took thirty-five minutes because the killer twice left the scene and returned to continue the assault. Afterward, thirty-seven...

Nov 10, 2011
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Fred Groh
7 Mins
Lynda Weinman: Queen of the Triple Win

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.

Oct 26, 2011
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10 Mins
Reflecting on Steve Jobs

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

Oct 26, 2011
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Lynda Weinmann
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Completing Rand's Literary Theory

Ayn Rand was that most delightful of philosophers—the philosopher who proposes large and interesting theories, and allows them to remain...

Sep 28, 2011
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Steve Cox
10 Mins
9/11 a Decade Later

The first decade of the twenty-first century was defined by Islamists, who used planes as weapons against the World Trade Center and

Sep 11, 2011
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Eddie Hudgins
5 Mins
I Can and I Will

That pithy advice, usually attributed to Henry Ford, expresses one of the most frequent themes in the vast literature of self-improvement...

Sep 1, 2011
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David Kelley, Ph.D.
10 Mins
America's "Civil War" Debt Battle

The major German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote that the debt-ceiling battle in Washington had a “civil war atmosphere.” But the war...

Aug 4, 2011
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Eddie Hudgins
3 Mins

Wir fördern den offenen Objektivismus: die Philosophie der Vernunft, der Leistung, des Individualismus und der Freiheit.