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Does Islam Need a Reformation?

This analogy with the Protestant Reformation in 16th-century Europe is intended to suggest that a similar movement within Islam would....

Apr 12, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
7 Mins
Amongst the Believers

On the 16th of October, 2010, I tramped into London along with two thousand other minds to attend The Amazing Meeting, the major conference

Apr 12, 2011
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Hugo Schmidt
8 Mins
A River Ran Through It

Spring 2011 -- THE WATER began swallowing Susan Lemaster’s home at 2 a.m. July 22. She was sleeping when her 27-year-old daughter, trembling

Apr 12, 2011
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Sarah Perry
10 Mins
Atlas Shrugged as Literature

One day in the 1940’s, a young reporter asked Ayn Rand about the new novel he heard that she was planning.

Apr 5, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
8 Mins
The Postmodern Assault on Reason

Stephen Hicks, PhD is The Atlas Society Senior Scholar. He teaches philosophy at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois.

Apr 5, 2011
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15 Mins
Ayn Rand and Reason

Ayn Rand 's ideas inspired many people; one of them was me. When I began reading Atlas Shrugged in the summer of 1964, I had no idea that

Apr 5, 2011
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Robert Poole
2 Mins
Freedom of Religion and Freedom to Value

When I say 'capitalism,' I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism—with a separation of state and economics, in the

Apr 2, 2011
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6 Mins
Book Review: Exposing the Islamist Lobby

Paul Sperry’s shoe-leather investigative journalism is showcased to its fullest in Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penet

Mar 31, 2011
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Ilana Mercer
9 Mins
Where Is Today's Mrs. Miniver?

Winter 2005 -- If you’ve never seen Mrs. Miniver—the award-winning 1942 film about a middle-class British family courageously facing their

Mar 31, 2011
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Michelle Marder Kamhi
4 Mins
When Lying Is a Good Thing: You Can't Handle the Truth!

March 2005 -- "You can't handle the truth!" says Jack Nicholson in the climax of the 1992 movie A Few Good Men. This is a good theme for

Mar 31, 2011
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Fred Cookinham
10 Mins
Charles Tomlinson's Wonderful Life

January/February 2005 -- Charles Tomlinson, a long-time supporter of The Atlas Society (publisher of The New Individualist), died Tuesday...

Mar 30, 2011
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William Perry
3 Mins
TV Review: Monk

New episodes of the hit detective program Monk, starring Tony Shalhoub, air on the USA Network on Fridays

Mar 30, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
6 Mins
Film Review: Mad Hot Ballroom

Mad Hot Ballroom. Director, Marilyn Agrelo; writer, Amy Sewell; director of photography, Claudia Raschke-Robinson; editor, Sabine Krayenbuhl

Mar 30, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
6 Mins
Raising the Standards

Fall 2005 -- When Frank Sinatra died in the spring of 1998, many critics and music lovers lamented his passing as “the end of an era.” The

Mar 30, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
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Sidebar: The Cast of Mad Hot Ballroom

Class teacher Allison Sheniak is a loving, caring teacher who has a way of making you "feel her pain."

Mar 30, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
2 Mins
What Are Creationists Afraid Of?

This year marks the eightieth anniversary of the 1925 trial of John Scopes, who was accused of violating Tennessee’s prohibition on teaching

Mar 30, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
10 Mins
Multiculturalism and its Discontents

July/August 2005 -- England's multicultural delusions were literally exploded this past summer when British citizens, children of Islamic...

Mar 30, 2011
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Bruce S. Thornton
10 Mins
Tracey Ross: TV

How many Objectivists are there among television actresses? Well, there is one for sure: Tracey Ross of NBC’s popular soap opera “Passions.

Mar 29, 2011
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John Berlau
7 Mins
The Indictment of the West

We in the West may argue over whether Islamist terrorists hate us for what we do or for what we are. But if we pay attention to what they...

Mar 29, 2011
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Bruce S. Thornton
10 Mins
Book Review: Real Heroes for Children

Young children are captivated by stories of imaginary heroes and heroines whose struggles and successes are set in mythical lands or

Mar 29, 2011
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Marsha Enright
5 Mins

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