Americans currently hold $1.4 trillion in outstanding federal student loan debt, in addition to the $119.31 billion of private student loan debt accounted for in 2019. Student loans may be a tool to help you get through college, but you shouldn’t enroll in college or a student loan program until you consider all your options.
Seven categories. Five only in each. Works that I love or learned from or influenced me or that I return to regularly.
After hearing some buzz about Lisa Duggan’s Mean Girl, I decided to read it for myself to see what it was all about.
As part of my Neither right nor left mantra, another datum.
If you’ve read Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, or ANTHEM: The Graphic Novel, you’ve been shaped in some way by Ayn Rand’s captivating words.
In a bombshell report The New York Times revealed ten years of tax information showing President Donald Trump claimed financial losses of over a billion dollars, wiping out any taxable income for those years.
MM: Did you invent the profession of philosophical practitioner?
Editor’s Note: The Philosophical Practitioner, by Larry Abrams, is part of The Writers Series, our highly popular series that features novelists who were influenced by Ayn Rand.
Editor’s Note: Frankensteel is Book One of the Just Hunter Series by Robin Craig.
Editor’s Note: An extortionist code-named “Viking” has seized control of a private warfare technology, pitting a U.S.
The March 4 headline in Buzzfeed was startling but perhaps not surprising: “WWF’s Secret War: WWF Funds Guards Who Have Tortured and Killed People.”
Our head politician wants to use political leverage to fix higher education’s semi-censorship problem.
Following the State of the Union address, I found the state of the nation surreal.
Author’s Note: This scene occurs early in the thriller Hunter. Investigative journalist Dylan Hunter has been invited to witness a prison meeting between crime victim Susanne Copeland and her imprisoned attacker, Adrian Wulfe—a cunning psychopath.
I did not like Bill Clinton’s 1993 class-warfare tax hike, and I also opposed Barack Obama’s 2012 fiscal-cliff tax increase on the so-called rich.
Parents who neglect to teach learning-thinking-choosing and socialization skills should not be surprised when their high school and/or college age children become immature, emotionally-driven progressives unable to rationally judge the worth of almost anything they encounter along the prickly path to adulthood.
For fans of Atlas Shrugged, January 22 marks the anniversary of the destruction of Rearden Steel.
A soul-searching article by exasperated art critic Jerry Saltz. How does the art world live with itself? Great question, and Saltz’s piece is well worth reading.
On January 1, 1945, Ayn Rand opened her journal and began writing notes for her fourth novel.
