Why Is There No Money in Star Trek?
Let me say right from the start that I like the Star Trek franchise. I don’t spend my free time learning to speak Klingon—no offence to...
May 10, 2009
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Let me say right from the start that I like the Star Trek franchise. I don’t spend my free time learning to speak Klingon—no offence to...
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
One evening after the publication of The Fountainhead , Ayn Rand was on the phone, discussing her disappointment over early sales with....
Today, we live “in the future”—the future that for decades had been depicted in science fiction, pursued by scientists and engineers, and...
In 1859, the first treatise on “best practices” appeared: Self-Help, With Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance, by Samuel..
When I was a kid, I loved school and I loved to learn. I looked forward to it everyday. But I was frustrated by the many kids around me who.
Exactly forty years ago, this month, I was contemplating the tattered wreckage of my college career. And The Book was responsible.
Since early men ignited the first fires in caves, the unleashing of energy for light, heat, cooking and every human need has been the....
Let me state my case right up front: I think action thrillers are today’s most influential and effective vehicles for imparting the values..
On August 5, 2006, Reuters published a photograph of smoke rising over Beirut from buildings hit by Israeli bombs. It was one of many
In 2005, at Minnesota’s St. Olaf College, the stirring peroration of that year’s commencement address advised the graduating seniors to
Last year, on November 16 (the anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, ironically), Milton Friedman died at the age of ninety-four. The..
It's official: Angelina Jolie is set to star in the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. David Kelley, Founder and Senior Fellow of
It was the evening of May 13, 2004, and on PBS-TV’s Charlie Rose Show the host was chatting with actor Brad Pitt about Troy...
But for advanced lessons in this craven policy, which I hereby dub “anticipatory capitulation,” I direct American “journalists” to study...
After each new suicide attack, as innocent blood flows in the streets of Baghdad, London, Madrid, or Tel Aviv, there is a surge of
Eliot Spitzer became the attorney general of New York in 1999. In addition to carrying out the routine functions of that office, he has used
One is a one-quarter-acre plot in Rwanda. The other is a thousand-acre wheat farm in Australia. Both are failing. In Rwanda, the...
Outside the concentration camps, which all collectivists felt necessary to establish in order to physically exterminate the last vestiges of