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What Irony Replaced: Henry James, Ayn Rand, and American Romanticism Part 1

Henry James (1843-1916) is a major American author. His numerous novels and novellas include What Maisie Knew, The Turn of the Screw, The

Jul 17, 2018

Marilyn Moore

8 Mins

Steve Ditko’s Indelible Legacy

When Steve Ditko picked up the phone over two years ago, I stammered an introduction, thanking him for the generous checks he’d written for

Jul 9, 2018

Jennifer A. Grossman

6 Mins

Her Better Judgment: Ayn Rand, Theodore Dreiser, and the Shape of the American Novel, Part 5

Ayn Rand was right of course. Rand was right about living conditions in Russia. She was right about the logical conclusions of communism....

May 25, 2018

Marilyn Moore

5 Mins

Her Better Judgment: Ayn Rand, Theodore Dreiser, and the Shape of the American Novel, Part 4

As Dreiser depicts them, Clyde Griffiths and Roberta Alden are not lovers so much as they are victims. Biology and society conspire against

May 14, 2018

Marilyn Moore

10 Mins

Making Sense of Kant's Senseless Sublime

In the last decade of the 18th century Beethoven composed his 1st and 2nd piano concertos, Goya etched the series Los Caprichos, Jacques-Lou

May 9, 2018

Michael Newberry

6 Mins

Fixing Welfare Is Ultimately A Philosophical Problem

With the passage of the recent bipartisan budget agreement and its $300 billion assault on spending caps, coming on the heels of the GOP’s..

May 9, 2018

Russel Paul La Valle

5 Mins

Her Better Judgment: Ayn Rand, Theodore Dreiser, and the Shape of the American Novel, Part 3

Dreiser’s Hortense Briggs and Rand’s Rita Eksler are both femmes fatales, but whereas Dreiser seethes with resentment that such a girl exist

May 7, 2018

Marilyn Moore

5 Mins

An Artist's Tribute to America

The machine is a defining cultural element of the 20th century. The machine and mass production influences man’s view of himself, his

May 7, 2018

Agnieszka Pilat

6 Mins

Liar, Liar: The Liberal Media Is Hurling Accusations of Lying From a Glass House

If the media want to scold others for lying, perhaps they shouldn’t defend their own liars. Ever since Donald Trump’s political rise, the..

May 1, 2018

Jennifer A. Grossman

4 Mins

Her Better Judgment: Ayn Rand, Theodore Dreiser, and the Shape of the American Novel, Part 1

It is difficult to think of two American authors more antithetical than Ayn Rand and Theodore Dreiser. According to his 1965 biographer, W..

Apr 23, 2018

Marilyn Moore

7 Mins

Don't Blame Ayn Rand for Conservatism's Decline

Conservatism may be in decline, but don’t blame it on Ayn Rand. That’s what Washington Post columnist EJ Dionne tried to do last week while

Apr 16, 2018

Jennifer A. Grossman

3 Mins

Visible and Invisible Hands

Douglas Den Uyl is vice president of educational programs for Liberty Fund. Douglas Rasmussen is a professor of philosophy at St. John’s

Apr 3, 2018

Douglas Rasmussen

8 Mins

The Ongoing Implosion of Venezuelan Statism

As far as I’m concerned, everything you need to know about capitalism vs. statism is captured in this chart comparing per-capita economic...

Apr 2, 2018

Dan Mitchell

5 Mins

The Politically Correct but False Economics

Scams and rackets, hoaxes and frauds … are as old as humanity itself. The Federal Trade Commission estimates that over 25 million Americans

Mar 19, 2018

Vinay Kolhatkar

8 Mins

Gene Says KISS Your Way to Power

This Women’s History Month, we turn to words of female empowerment from an unlikely source: Gene Simmons...

Venus was the most beautiful baby born, but she was cursed in two ways: First, no one knew who her father was, her mother deftly convincing

Mar 5, 2018

Michael Newberry

2 Mins

Bosch Fawstin: Infidel Artist

America didn’t win World War II solely on the backs of her men and women in uniform. Without the tireless efforts on the home front, there..

There are dozens of Black History Month “reading lists” which include many books you might expect, ranging from biographies of civil rights

Decades ago at 2:30 a.m. on a back street in La Jolla, I was arrested driving my mom’s ’68 Firebird 400 convertible. I had our tiny mutts

Feb 12, 2018

Michael Newberry

5 Mins

Man and Nature in The Fountainhead

One could describe great literature as being like great architecture: all the elements pull together and buttress a central theme...

Jan 29, 2018

Kurt Keefner

9 Mins

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