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Scared of Halloween

Halloween has its origins in superstition, and, sadly, it invokes old and new superstitions still. Halloween, from "All Hallows Eve," was...

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
The Spiritual Significance of Mars

The news and the night sky are dominated by Mars. At a distance of only 34.6 million miles, the Red Planet is now closer to Earth than it...

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
The Problems with The Passion of the Christ's Moral Message

March 3, 2004 -- The controversy surrounding Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ reflects a deep divide concerning the moral

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
The Englishwoman and the Naughty School

December 10, 2003 -- Rarely has the moral decadence of the philosophy that places "society" above the individual been better illustrated...

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
2 Mins
Uncharitable Attack on Charity

June 12, 2009 -- Americans are historically a generous people. Thus it’s shocking to see the National Committee for Responsible Philanthropy

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Scientology, Seizures, and Science

Jett Travolta, the sixteen-year-old son of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston, died recently of what the autopsy found to be a seizure..

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Scorsese's Aviator Reflects Randian Lessons

In The Aviator, a biopic about Howard Hughes (1905-1976) starring Leonardo DiCaprio with script by John Logan, director Martin Scorsese

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
6 Mins
The Iliad and Islam

June 24, 2004 -- "Sing, oh Goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son Achilles, which brought pains a thousand-fold upon the Achaians." So opens the

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Star Wars: Are the Sith Selfish?

With Revenge of the Sith, George Lucas faced the same problem as did the classical Greek playwrights. Their audiences already knew the...

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Thoughts on Racial Thinking

January 17, 2009 -- January 2009 finds the issue of race front-and-center with the celebration of black civil rights leader Martin Luther...

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
7 Mins
How Would Jesus Tax?

June 11, 2003 -- One Republican is finally making moral arguments to support his tax policies. Unfortunately, they’re the wrong arguments

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
2 Mins
Why We Watch the Skies

The Astronomical League, the world's largest federation of amateur astronomers, has declared May 10th to be this year's Astro

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
The Edukators

September 8, 2005 -- Another example of how Europeans and Americans are drifting apart culturally and politically can be seen in the film

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Reflections on the Journalists' War Chatter

April 5, 2003 -- I am trained as an economist, and so it especially irks me when ignorant journalists attempt to comment on the economy...

Apr 4, 2010
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William Thomas
5 Mins
The Human Spirit of Christmas

The holiday season is a time for spiritual reflection, celebration, and frenzied commerce. These activities might seem incompatible. They

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Political Correctness Still Runs Rampant

January 1, 2001 -- The classics, academic freedom, and justice often seem all but dead on college campuses today. Routinely, colleges and

Apr 4, 2010
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Donald Cooper
4 Mins
What If There Were No America?

June 28, 2003 -- On July 4th, we celebrate the establishment of the United States of America by our Founding Fathers. Since 1776, America

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
One Giant Leap Toward Fascist America: Kelo V. New London

The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing a local government to kick 87-year-old Wilhelmina Dery out of the house in which she was born, along with

Mar 31, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Obstruction of Freedom

September 10, 2004 -- On September 9, Frank Quattrone, a prominent investment banker formerly with Credit Suisse First Boston, was sentenced

Mar 31, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
2 Mins
Inadvertent Observations in Denys Arcand

February 2, 2004 -- Given the fact that the title of director Denys Arcand's previous film was The Decline of the American Empire, that his

Mar 31, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins

Nous promouvons un objectivisme ouvert : la philosophie de la raison, de la réussite, de l'individualisme et de la liberté.