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Ideas and Ideologies

Entrepreneurship: Is Life Like That?

Summer 2009 -- In 1897, during the twilight of the Aesthetic Movement, the Reverend Emory Lyon wrote The Art of Living. At the beginning of

Sep 7, 2010
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10 Mins
All in Favor Say "I"

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded

Sep 7, 2010
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5 Mins
Reply to a Misanthrope

July/August 2008 -- I maintain an online blog (http://bidinotto.journalspace.com) that allows me to comment (and sometimes to rant) about

Sep 7, 2010
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Robert James Bidinotto
5 Mins
Beyond Good and Bad

February 2002 -- The virtue of selfishness has become a tough sell. Before September 11, one could score points for egoism by elaborating

Sep 7, 2010
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12 Mins
Tower Cranes: An Appreciation

Tower cranes are ubiquitous here in Washington, D.C. They often dominate the skyline, especially on the eastern side of town where the arc

Sep 7, 2010
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James S. Robbins
5 Mins
Green Cathedrals: Environmentalism's Mythological Appeal

September 2007 -- Every culture and its institutions are the living embodiments of certain fundamental ideas about man and his place in the

Sep 2, 2010
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Robert James Bidinotto
10 Mins
The Parasites' Paradise

September/October 2002 -- BOOK REVIEW: Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism . By Joshua Muravchik. (San Francisco, Calif...

Aug 30, 2010
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Howard Dickman
8 Mins
William F. Buckley, Jr.'s "Getting it Right"

I have always disliked that weird hybrid of fact and fiction known as the "docudrama." An inherently dishonest contrivance, it jumbles actua

Aug 26, 2010
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Robert James Bidinotto
9 Mins
Charms and Enchantments of Fantasy

The essence of what makes fantasy popular is that it takes the reader out of his normal life into an extraordinary, value-laden, and highly

Aug 26, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
7 Mins
Hard America, Soft America: A New "House Divided"

Soft America lives off the productivity, creativity, and competence of Hard America, and we have the luxury of keeping part of our society S

Aug 18, 2010
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Frank Bubb
6 Mins
A Romantic Manifesto

Those who love Ayn Rand 's novels have searched, with little result, for works that are similar to Rand's in both ideas and essential

Aug 18, 2010
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5 Mins
Interview with Charles Murray

April 2004 -- Editor's Note: Charles Murray is the W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom at the American Enterprise Institute in Washi..

Aug 5, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
9 Mins
If You Discover Insider Trading, Can You Trade on Your Discovery?

It seems that SMARTS Software , developed in part by Professor Mike Aitken , has now been sold to 150 brokers worldwide who use “its...

Aug 4, 2010
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2 Mins
Why Is Payola Illegal? The Univision Case

It seems that Stanley Kurtz has an interesting book coming out this fall: Radical-in-Chief . Even before publication, it is provoking some

Jul 30, 2010
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2 Mins
The Collapse of a Postmodern Corporation

May 2002-- On December 2, 2001, Enron Corporation filed for bankruptcy. With the company's assets then estimated at $62 billion, it was the

Jul 12, 2010
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8 Mins
Was Cassano "the Man Who Crashed the World"?

AIG. Was Joe Cassano of AIG “the man who crashed the world” as Michael Lewis proclaimed , and as other anti-capitalists such as Gretchen

Jul 11, 2010
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2 Mins
Micro-Financing: Profit vs. Altruism

Muhammad Yunus, who founded Bangladesh's Grameen Bank in 1983, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his promotion of micro-financing, and..

Jul 11, 2010
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2 Mins
Orthodox Unorthodoxy

America is on the verge of a major economic and political crisis. Accordingly, it is a time for a transformative vision of society, a vision

Jul 2, 2010
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David Hogberg
7 Mins
Instant Books and Instapundits

In its heyday, the instant book was an invaluable resource. Appearing shortly after a major news event, the tome would give a complete news

Jun 29, 2010
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6 Mins
The Individualist's Guide to Progressive Change

If socialism were a respectable affiliation, Progressives would probably call themselves “democratic socialists.”But socialism died as a....

Jun 26, 2010
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William Thomas
10 Mins

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