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Environmentalism: Don't Judge It by Its Extremists

February 2001 -- In recent months, the Environmental Liberation Front (ELF) has claimed responsibility for acts of arson across the country

Oct 21, 2010
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Patrick Stephens
5 Mins
Morality and Politics

February 2001 -- A nation's political trends are governed by several factors--the state of the economy, the vested interests of politicians

Oct 21, 2010
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Dr. David Kelley
5 Mins
Supply-Side Ethics

A writer suffering from clinical depression finds relief from Prozac. Realizing how profoundly the drug's inventor has affected her life....

Oct 20, 2010
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Dr. David Kelley
The Math Wars

May 2001 -- When I was a boy in school, my father told me, often, that mathematics was the most important subject. "And the thing in

Oct 19, 2010
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David Ross
10 Mins
Alexandra York and ART

I have been active in the arts and the ideas that inform them since I was very young. At age three, I began studying ballet, and I was in

Oct 19, 2010
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Alexandra York
4 Mins
Auto-mobility and Freedom

A century and a half ago, the legal scholar Sir Henry Maine observed that the evolution of human society was a movement from a society of...

Oct 18, 2010
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Sam Kazman
10 Mins
From Ocean to Ocean

When Ayn Rand created a heroic American dynasty for her novel Atlas Shrugged , she based the family's fortune not on oil, or autos, or

Oct 18, 2010
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Frank Bryan
9 Mins
The Internet in Closed Societies

Apparently the World Wide Web isn't as worldwide as it could be. The Internet—the centerpiece of the "new economy" technology that was

Oct 18, 2010
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Patrick Stephens
4 Mins
What is the West?

David Gress's subtitle seems to indicate that he has but one set of opponents—those who are hostile to "the idea of the West." In fact

Oct 18, 2010
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10 Mins
Picnic Time for Teddy Bears

A man from my neck of the woods was mauled by a bear. A politician, to be more accurate. John Chelminiak, who is alive but disfigured for...

Oct 15, 2010
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Ilana Mercer
4 Mins
Faith and Funding: What Is the Root of the Stem Cell Controversy?

September 2001 -- The current debate over federal funding of embryonic stem cell research raises two basic questions: "Is it morally and

Oct 15, 2010
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Patrick Stephens y David Kelley
6 Mins
Community and American Individualism

November 2001 -- One of the most popular mantras, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, declares how great it is to see Americans

Oct 14, 2010
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Shawn E. Klein
5 Mins
'It Was Like a Movie': Atrocity and the Arts

November 2001 -- A article from the Navigator Special: The Assault on Civilization, posted October 12, 2001. Published in the November 2001

Oct 14, 2010
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Richard Speer
10 Mins
Atlas Shrugged: The Making of a Movie

was an evening to remember. On December 7, 2010, at the historic Hudson Theatre in New York City, The Atlas Society sponsored a celebration

Oct 13, 2010
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Eduardo Hudgins
3 Mins
The Roots of the West

December 2001 -- Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization . By Bruce Thornton. (San Francisco, California: Encounter Books..

Oct 13, 2010
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10 Mins
The Intellectual as Barbarian

January 2002 -- The assault on civilization did not begin with the terrorist attacks of September 11. As Objectivists know, such an assault

Oct 13, 2010
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5 Mins
Romanticism is Dead! Long Live Romanticism!

January 2002 -- When Victor Hugo was writing his last novel, Ninety-Three, during the years 1872 and 1873, the Naturalist school of fiction

Oct 13, 2010
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Michelle Fram-Cohen
10 Mins
The History and Creed of Islam

January 2002 -- Reprinted by permission of the publisher. From The Role of Religion in History, by George Walsh (New Brunswick, New Jersey:

Oct 13, 2010
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George Walsh
10 Mins
Society Then and Now

At the time when Ayn Rand wrote most of her non-fiction (the 1960s), half the world’s population was under avowedly Communist or Socialist

Sep 30, 2010
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4 Mins
Sociobiology and Altruism

Sociobiology is the doctrine that we have fundamental behaviors and psychological characteristics that are explained by the incentives

Sep 30, 2010
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