| Type | Title | Author | Date |
| Op-ed | The Productive Meaning of Thanksgiving | Edward Hudgins | 11/23/2005 |
| Description: Hudgins argues that the happy meaning of Thanksgiving and the season it inaugurates is found in the bounty that we produce and our ability to produce it. |
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| FrontReport | Eating Our
Independence for Breakfast | Edward Hudgins | 10/13/2005 |
| Description: The small erosions of freedom that result from paternalism |
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| Op-ed | Columbus Day: In Praise of Exploitation | Edward Hudgins | 10/10/2005 |
| Description: Columbus opened a whole new land for those who would tame nature and build a new, free and prosperous nation. We should celebrate the opportunity for America that he gave us—not apologize for it. |
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| FrontReport | A Cool American Capitalist | Edward Hudgins | 8/24/2005 |
| Description: Air-conditioning and human achievement. |
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| FrontReport | Apollo 11 on Human Achievement Day | Edward Hudgins | 7/20/2005 |
| Description: The glory of human achievement. |
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| FrontReport | The London Massacre | Edward Hudgins | 7/7/2005 |
| Description: Atrocities like the London bombings, and the ideologies that support them, must be loudly and publicly denounced. |
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| FrontReport | Degraded Discussion of Gitmo | Edward Hudgins | 6/17/2005 |
| Description: Comparing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay to a Stalinist Gulag or a Nazi death-camp is not only incorrect; it's dishonest and disgusting. |
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| FrontReport | Star Wars: Are the Sith Selfish? | Edward Hudgins | 5/25/2005 |
| Description: A review of Revenge of the Sith. |
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| FrontReport | Robin Hood and the Robber Congress | Edward Hudgins | 4/18/2005 |
| Description: The Estate Tax and the morality of the producer. |
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| Op-ed | Tax Wars | Edward Hudgins | 4/14/2005 |
| Description: As we rush to meet the April 15 deadline to file our tax returns, many fail to realize those 1040 forms do more than just make us all personally poorer. The tax code is a principal instrument that creates and sustains the politicized, partisan, uncivil, contentious conflict society so many bemoan. |
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| Miscellaneous | April/May 2005 Soundings | | 4/1/2005 |
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| Article | Eliot Spitzer: Ayatollah General | Roger Donway | 4/1/2005 |
| Description: Since becoming the attorney general of New York, Eliot Spitzer has conducted an aggressive campaign against the financial industry, restructuring the business landscape in accordance with his moral vision, as though he were a religious dictator suddenly transplanted from the Middle East. |
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| Article | OPS: Other People's Stuff* | Charles Tomlinson | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: Everything in our world is covered with a thick, gooey atmosphere of Other People’s Stuff.
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| Article | The Need for a New Individualism | Edward Hudgins | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: The political and economic manifestations of individualism—freedom and capitalism—cannot stand on their own; they require sound moral ideas of rational self-interest.
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| Miscellaneous | January/February, 2005 Soundings | | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: A selection of Ayn Rand tributes. |
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| Article | Epistemology and Politics: Ayn Rand's Cultural Commentary | David Kelley | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: The events Rand wrote about are long past, the people long gone. Many of the issues and trends have disappeared off the rader screen. But her essays remain relevant today and her comments have staying power because she brought a philosophical perspective to bear. |
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| Article | Ayn Rand at 100 | Edward Hudgins | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: How do the most productive individuals, those who are responsible for a society’s prosperity, find themselves abused by politicians and dishonest businessmen and women? Ayn Rand sees the key in morality, and she coined the phrase that best describes the root of the problem: the sanction of the victim. |
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| Article | Honoring Ayn Rand | | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: Sixteen individuals—from the world of politics to the world of the academy, from the corporation to the think thank—pay homage to the philosopher and novelist on the one-hundredth anniversary of her birth. |
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| Miscellaneous | December, 2004 Soundings | | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: Ayn Rand and Olympic Swimming, Sears and Kmart, Christmas, Cigarettes, Howard Hughes, The Apprentice, and in Prison. Also: Michael Chrichton's State of Fear. |
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| Miscellaneous | November, 2004 Soundings | | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: Educational atrocities, the cost of government regulation, Mexican immigration, environmentalism, health-care cost incentives. |
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| Center News | Sightings, November 2004 | | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: Private Property, Harry Potter, and David Kelley in Bulgarian |
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| Op-ed | Signals from SpaceShipOne | Edward Hudgins | 10/5/2004 |
| Description: Burt Rutan and SpaceShipOne make history with private space flight and win the Ansari X Prize. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Liberty | | 10/1/2004 |
| Description: The Rule of Law in the Wake of Clinton, You Can't Say that, Cato Supreme Court Review, Restoring the Lost Constitution |
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| Miscellaneous | October, 2004 Soundings | | 10/1/2004 |
| Description: Aid to North Korea, John McWhorter and barbarism, Working hard in America |
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| Article | The Freedom Olympics | Roger Donway | 10/1/2004 |
| Description: Americans typically measure their freedom by looking backward or forward--backward to the early republic or forward to their ideal republic. But another useful gauge can be obtained by looking outward--to the world's other republics, and to its non-republics as well. That is, we may wish to know, in the spirit of international sports competitions: How well does America do in its pursuit of freedom, when compared with other countries? |
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| Center News | David Kelley translated into Bulgarian | | 9/28/2004 |
| Description: Dr. Kelley is translated into Bulgarian. |
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| Miscellaneous | September, 2004 Soundings | | 9/1/2004 |
| Description: Aristrocrats of Production, Technology Awards and honors, and a survey on 'Trusting Business.' |
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| Letters | Letters: Don Giovanni, Lost in Translation | | 9/1/2004 |
| Description: Letters about Don Giovanni, Lost in Translation, and Rockefeller. |
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| Article | Poetry of Freedom | John Enright | 9/1/2004 |
| Description: John Enright discusses some of his favorite poems. Included are selections from Byron, Milton, Dryden and others. |
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| Op-ed | Big Tobacco's Suicidal Detente | Andrew Bissell | 8/12/2004 |
| Description: Tobacco company Philip Morris is supporting a Congressional plan that would place on it even more regulations. But as Andrew Bissell argues in this op-ed, for too long tobacco companies have tried to make deals with anti-smoking zealots who want to shut them down, only to find such deals don't purchase peace but simply invite more attacks. Whether one is a smoker or not, one must recognize that consumer freedom is in danger when government can snuff out industries and products of which they disapprove. |
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| Miscellaneous | July/August Soundings | | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Bill Clinton, John Kerry and Tax Hikes; Rural Property Rights; Whom do Americans Trust? |
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| Review | Hard America, Soft America: A New 'House Divided' | Frank Bubb | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Hard America consists of “the parts of American life subject to competition and accountability”; “Soft America” consists of “the parts of our country where there is little competition and accountability.” That is the intriguing disjunction that informs Michael Barone’s new book, Hard America, Soft America, employs to analyze the history of the United States during the last century. |
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| Center News | Bringing Western Values to Capitol Hill | | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center took the discussion about the basis of a free society where it is needed most: Capitol Hill. A star-studded lineup, including Christopher Hitchens and TOC executive director David Kelley, discussed “What Are Western Values and Should We Return to Them?” |
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| Miscellaneous | June Soundings | | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: Trashing petty regulations; Media refuse subpoenas; Postmodern prostitution in art; Voting on the truth of the Bible. |
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| Miscellaneous | Sightings, June 2004 | | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: Ayn Rand, Homosexuality, and Human Liberation is published; Center Member tours with Disney; Journal of Ayn Rand Studies issues call for papers. |
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| Center News | Martin Anderson meets Ed Hudgins | | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: Martin Anderson, former advisor to President Reagan, meets with Ed Hudgins. |
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| Center News | Objectivism around the World | | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: Objectivism and Ayn Rand in India, Italy, Mexico and Turkey! |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Enlightenment Thought and Action | | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: The Creation of the Modern World:
The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment By Roy Porter; Locke in America: The Moral Philosophy of the Founding Era By Jerome Huyler; The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World By Jenny Uglow; Self-Help By Samuel Smiles
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| Letters | Letters: Art, Movies, Death (June, 2004) | | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: Art, artists, viewers, and value; The Virtues of Lost in Translation; Euthanasia |
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| Miscellaneous | May Soundings | | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: Art Renewal Center ; Great Britain's leading playwrights David Hare; funding of the arts; musuem entrance fees. |
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| Interview | An Interview with Charles Murray | David Kelley | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: David Kelley talks with the author of Human Accomplishment about his work’s philosophical premises and arguments, including the objectivity of excellence and the significance of expert opinion. They discuss as well the cultural history of the modern world and what it says about the driving forces underlying creativity. |
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| Review | What Hath Man Wrought! | William Thomas | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: Charles Murray’s Human Accomplishment is a study of mankind’s remarkable discoveries and creations. Covering 2,750 years, from 800 B.C. to 1950, it employs anecdote and argument to awaken “a sense of wonder” at the greatest feats of human accomplishment in art and science. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, April 2004 | | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: U.S. senators trading well; we-centered world; Brain-drain in Germany; Voting on the Iraq War; Iraq better off without Saddam? |
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| Miscellaneous | March Soundings | | 3/1/2004 |
| Description: Liberal apprehension; law-making in Britain; Justifying the welfare-state; The Vagina Monologues; Republican Spending Explosion |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Art and Culture | | 2/1/2004 |
| Description: From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life: 1500 to the Present By Jacques Barzun; The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art By Ernst Gombrich; The World of Art By Robert Payne; Art: A New History By Paul Johnson |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, January/February 2004 | | 2/1/2004 |
| Description: Thomas Sowell on objectivity; Christian Marxists; France, Germany, Russia Allies?; Republicans abandoning free-markets and small government? |
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| Article | The Party of Modernity | David Kelley | 11/1/2003 |
| Description: The values of modernity, which flourished in the Enlightenment, still animate much of American life. Yet people do not think of themselves as sharing an outlook, comparable to Catholicism or Buddhism. If the modernist perspective is once again to be a force in the culture, we must articulate it as a unique, coherent philosophy. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, November 2003 | | 11/1/2003 |
| Description: Fighting corruption, Wordwatchers Corner, Lawyers fighting for welfare rights, Polls about beliefs show cultural split. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: The Witless Battle Over General Boykin | David Kelley | 10/24/2003 |
| Description: The irrationality and fruitlessness of the conservative and liberal sides of the culture war shows itself in the controversy over General William Boykin and his evangelical Christian view of America as a Christian nation. |
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| Article | Interpreting the Constitution Contextually | David Mayer | 10/1/2003 |
| Description: Debate over constitutional interpretation, and Supreme Court nominees, is often conducted in terms of strict construction versus loose construction and conservative versus liberal. The participants in these debates—like the six blind men with the elephant—have all got hold of a partial truth but have missed the big picture.
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| Miscellaneous | September Soundings | | 9/1/2003 |
| Description: Democrats and Million dollar contributions; Responsiblity in Britian; Education in New York; Whom Do Americans Trust? |
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| Article | Can There Be an ''After Socialism''? | Alan Charles Kors | 9/1/2003 |
| Description: Virtually every American knows that Nazi Germany brought death to six million Jews and perhaps six million other victims. But how many know that communism is responsible for seven to eight times as many deaths? Until the West has thoroughly confronted this horrific slaughter, writes Alan Kors, communism cannot belong to the past. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, July-August 2003 | | 8/1/2003 |
| Description: Wordwatcher: Altruism; Media Misrepresentations of business |
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| Op-ed | The Shape of Truth | Edward Hudgins | 7/10/2003 |
| Description: Neil LaBute's movie 'The Shape of Thngs' -- about a nerdy student who falls for a self-styled radical artist seeking 'truth' -- shows the consequences of abandoning personal integrity and authenticity. It also is a scathing attack on art community elites, who reject all standards and thus hate LaBute’s movie, which exposes them for what they are |
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| Article | For a Museum of Capitalism | David Kelley | 6/23/2003 |
| Description: We need a museum of capitalism to celebrate the producers who make civilization possible. |
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| Commentary | Martha Burk's Pseudo-Event | Russell La Valle | 6/23/2003 |
| Description: Though Martha Burk’s protest against Augusta National was a flop, her manipulation of the media bodes future successes. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, June 2003 | | 6/23/2003 |
| Description: Republicans grow budget; Wishing the left was right about George W. Bush; Aleksandr Yakovlev on the Soviet Union; Postmoderns critize Environmentalists; |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, May 2003 | | 5/31/2003 |
| Description: General Electric Strike, Supreme Court and HMOs, Stalingrad analogy to Baghdad, Derrida. |
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| Perspectives | Of Courage Undaunted | Russell La Valle | 5/31/2003 |
| Description: May 14, 1804 was the beginning of one of America's greatest adventure stories: the Lewis and Clark expedition. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, April 2003 | | 4/30/2003 |
| Description: Modern Art as torture; George W. is Reagan's Son; CBC blames Columbia on American arrogance; Maurice Papon |
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| Article | The Company of One's Kind | Russell La Valle | 4/23/2003 |
| Description: By seeking to deny members of the Augusta National Golf Club the pleasures
they derive from the company of other men, Martha Burk of the National
Council of Women's Organizations is demanding that human nature be lashed to
a Procrustean bed of her own rationalistic construction. |
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| Miscellaneous | March 03 Soundings | | 3/31/2003 |
| Description: Thomas Sowell on nation building; Omnious Parallels; Genetical Modified Food; Altruism; Catholic Pope?; Women's Peace Vigil |
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| Review | Getting It Wrong | Robert Bidinotto | 3/29/2003 |
| Description: Robert Bidinotto dissects William F. Buckley’s fictional history of the conservative and Objectivist movements. Ayn Rand |
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| Op-ed | American Muslims: Cleaning Their Own House | Edward Hudgins | 3/28/2003 |
| Description: The murder of American soldiers in Kuwait by Asam Akbar, an army sergeant and an American Muslim, raises questions concerning the place of Muslims in our society and about possible divided loyalties. American Muslims can create an enlightened for of Islam that could vanquish the hate on which terrorism is based. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Art and Culture | | 2/28/2003 |
| Description: From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life: 1500 to the Present
By Jacques Barzun; The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art
By Ernst Gombrich; The World of Art
By Robert Payne; Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century
Edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball |
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| Review | Rousseau's Children | Roger Donway | 2/28/2003 |
| Description: In his book Life at the Bottom, psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple describes how his patients at a hospital and prison in the slums of Birmingham, England, got to their pathetic condition. He does not blame their environment, or their genes, or even, chiefly, their upbringing. Rather, he says, these people—and the underclass generally— have reached "the bottom" because of the worldview they have adopted. |
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| Op-ed | The Public Side of Private Love | Edward Hudgins | 2/14/2003 |
| Description: With American popular culture saturated by the theme of romantic love, one wonders, why something so profoundly personal and private is a public matter? |
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| Op-ed | Character and Color | Edward Hudgins | 1/17/2003 |
| Description: In 1963 Martin Luther King called on us to judge each other not by the color of our skin but by the content of our character. In this op-ed on "Character and Color" I agree that virtues like rationality, fortitude and integrity are the path to achievement for all individuals of all races, but that many black leaders today have abandoned this standard and instead promote their own form of racism. Fortunately, more African-Americans now are embracing King’s standard, as should we all. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, November/December 2002 | | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: PBS Diversity Crazed history of science, CEO's and Recession, Religious Altruism and Terrorism, Khmer Rouge, MulitCulturalism |
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| Article | Allah Bless America! | Edward Hudgins | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: American Muslims who wish to secure their country against terrorism owe it to themselves and their fellow Americans to police their own communities. They should also contribute to America's culture of liberty by promoting religious toleration within those communities. |
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| Article | Free Speech and Postmodernism | Stephen Hicks | 10/1/2002 |
| Description: The argument that gave America free speech has a corollary: When we set up specialized social institutions to advance our knowledge, we should take special pains to protect the freedom of their creative minds. Why, then, do the greatest current threats to free speech come precisely from within our colleges and universities? |
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| Review | The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters—and Multiculturalists | Walter Donway | 8/31/2002 |
| Description: In his new collection of essays, Discontents: Postmodern and Postcommunist, sociologist Paul Hollander probes the connections between two apparently disparate questions: Why has the collapse of the Soviet Union (unlike the collapse of Nazi Germany) not produced academic studies of the relationship between totalitarian theory and practice? And: Why do Western intellectuals find their own societies intolerably unjust, given the totalitarian states that have flourish around the world in this century? |
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| Op-ed | Time to Derail Amtrak | Matthew Curtis | 7/19/2002 |
| Description: Amtrak and the entitlement culture in America. |
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| Op-ed | One Nation Under. ? | Tim Richmond | 7/18/2002 |
| Description: God and the pledge of allegiance. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, June 2002 | | 6/30/2002 |
| Description: Boycott of Israel by scientists, vandalism as art, capitalism and vampires. |
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| Press Release | Bush’s community service plan is a bad idea. | Edward Hudgins | 6/18/2002 |
| Description: Bush’s community service plan is a bad idea. Personal responsibility, not charity, is the true measure of moral worth. |
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| Op-ed | Jihad comes to Harvard | Tal Ben-Shahar | 6/12/2002 |
| Description: Harvard’s Commencement speech was inappropriate and damaging. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, May 2002 | | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: EU and Xenophobia ban, shifting coalitions |
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| Commentary | The Collapse of a Postmodern Corporation | Roger Donway | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: Enron's failure was not the product of capitalism, as the Left alleges, nor merely the result of crime, as the Right avers. It was rooted in the postmodern tenor of the firm's corporate values. |
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| Article | The War against Modernity | David Kelley | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: Islamists do not hate the United States because of its international policies. Nor is their antipathy based primarily on the long-standing struggle between Western civilization and Islamic civilization. Rather, it is the culture of modernity—born of the Renaissance and Enlightenment—that has drawn the hatred of this distinctly contemporary and untraditional manifestation of Islam. |
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| Op-ed | Star Wars and the politics of republics | Edward Hudgins | 5/21/2002 |
| Description: George Lucas has made a pretty film, but his understanding of
politics and republics belongs in a galaxy far, far away. |
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| Op-ed | The New Intolerance? | Edward Hudgins | 5/9/2002 |
| Description: Intolerance is more toxic to our republic than the nasty stuff
in cigarettes. The ruling by a co-op association in New York City
sacrifices tolerance for smoke. |
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| Commentary | Hollywood Applauds Terrorism | Edward Hudgins | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: Less than six months after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, a major American film, John Q., portrays a terrorist as a hero. Ed Hudgins, director of TOC's Washington office, finds it a startling demonstration of how fiercely Hollywood is gripped by the premise that altruism justifies coercion. |
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| Op-ed | Spring is a time for personal renewal | Edward Hudgins | 3/28/2002 |
| Description: Spring is a time for personal renewal. |
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| Op-ed | Is Miss Cleo a criminal? She's certainly a fraud. | Edward Hudgins | 3/18/2002 |
| Description: Is Miss Cleo a criminal? She's certainly a fraud.
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| Op-ed | Keep the Al Qaida prisoners in Cuba | Stephen Browne | 3/6/2002 |
| Description: Keep the Al Qaida prisoners in Cuba
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| Op-ed | Ayn Rand in Retrospect | Edward Hudgins | 3/5/2002 |
| Description: Ayn Rand in Retrospect |
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| Op-ed | Credentials and Criticism in the Green Movement | Jim Peron | 3/5/2002 |
| Description: Bjørn Lomborg has been vilified for writing his book, The
Skeptical Environmentalist because he is supposedly unqualified to
write. But the history of the environmental movement shows that they
have never much cared about credentials when they agreed with the
ideology. |
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| Op-ed | Enron: It's OUR Problem | William Thomas | 2/27/2002 |
| Description: The collapse of Enron is a problem that the market has to deal with, and we are the market. |
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| Op-ed | Valentine’s Day: A Day to Celebrate the Best | Tim Richmond | 2/7/2002 |
| Description: Valentine’s Day is a day to celebrate the best—both within our
selves and within our loved ones.
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| Op-ed | Drugs and Terrorism--they're not the same thing. | Patrick Stephens | 2/6/2002 |
| Description: The government's new anti-drug ad campaign is absurd and demeaning.
And it won’t work. |
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| Op-ed | The State of The Union and The Culture of Responsibility | David Kelley | 1/30/2002 |
| Description: In his powerful State of the Union address, President Bush gave voice to the two deepest truths of a free society: that the essential function of its government is to provide security, and that it depends on a culture of responsibility. |
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| Op-ed | A Child's Letter on the Education Bill | Edward Hudgins | 1/22/2002 |
| Description: A Child's Letter on the Bush-Kennedy Education Bill, as reported to Edward Hudgins |
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| Op-ed | It's good to play god | Jim Peron | 1/16/2002 |
| Description: Technology and ''playing god'' make life better |
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| Op-ed | The benefits of industry--We're Living longer! | Jim Peron | 1/11/2002 |
| Description: We're living longer and better -- thanks largely to industry
and industrialization
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| Op-ed | Maybe we can smile, the environment is looking pretty good. | Jim Peron | 12/19/2001 |
| Description: Maybe we can smile, the environment is looking pretty good.
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| Op-ed | Dear Virginia, No There is No Santa Claus | Greg Perkins | 12/10/2001 |
| Description: A response to Frank Church's famous "Dear Virginia" letter --
one that's truthful -- and full of hope.
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| Review | The Roots of the West | William Thomas | 12/1/2001 |
| Description: In this review of Greek Ways and The Dream of Reason, William Thomas tracks the creation of Western civilization from classical Athens to the Renaissance. |
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| Op-ed | The Liberty Dollar Bill | Jim Cox | 10/31/2001 |
| Description: A proposal to put the U.S. Constitution on the back of the one
dollar bill.
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| Op-ed | Nobel Prize in Economics | Donald Cooper | 10/18/2001 |
| Description: Nobel Winners Good for Economics, Bad for Public Policy
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| Op-ed | The Toxic Fallout on Campus | Damon W. Root | 10/3/2001 |
| Description: Anti-American sentiments spreading in U.S. colleges
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| Review | What is the West? | Roger Donway | 9/1/2001 |
| Description: David Gress's From Plato to Nato, disputes the old account of Western progress as a series of "Magic Moments" leading twentieth-century liberalism. But it disagrees even more strongly with the West's postmodern critics. |
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| Op-ed | Anti-globalism and Nihilism | William Thomas | 7/25/2001 |
| Description: The recent surge of anti-globalism protests are examples of nihilism in practice. |
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| Op-ed | NASA is right to deny passage to ''Space-tourist.'' | Tim Richmond | 6/22/2001 |
| Description: Contracts are contracts--even in space. |
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| Op-ed | There Ought to be a Law! | Shawn E. Klein | 6/13/2001 |
| Description: We don't need additional regulation to control reckless driving: even if people are on cell phones. |
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| Op-ed | Three Billion Dollar Award for Irresponsibility | Tim Richmond | 6/11/2001 |
| Description: Smokers should take responsibility for their own choices.
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| Op-ed | Op-Ed: Let's Make Earth Day A Religious Holiday | Robert Bidinotto | 4/15/2001 |
| Description: Environmentalism shares all the features of religion, so why not treat it like one? |
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| Op-ed | Destroying Embryos is not immoral | Patrick Stephens | 4/3/2001 |
| Description: The embryos used in cloning procedures have no moral status. |
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| Review | Teaching Virtue in a Postmodern World | Roger Donway | 3/1/2001 |
| Description: Navigator's editor, Roger Donway, notes that James Davision Hunter's The Death of Character asks a very pertinent question: How can we teach morality in grammar school and high school when our college professors assert that no morality can be validated? |
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| Commentary | Derrida Comes to ABC | Roger Donway | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: The anti-Enlightenment thought of postmodernists such as Jacques Derrida is beginning to surface in the mass media, as evidenced by a recent ABC news analysis. |
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| Commentary | Decline Demands Philosophers, Not Censors | Roger Donway | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: Roger Donway shows why a society in decline needs philosophers, not censors, to preserve and restore its culture. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, December 1999 | | 12/1/1999 |
| Description: Values of the underclass; Conservatism; stopping the growth of government. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, November 1999 | | 11/1/1999 |
| Description: Liberty Tree; Gross-out comedies; optical fibers; An Affair of State by Richard Posner; Steve Forbes |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, September 1999 | | 9/1/1999 |
| Description: America adopting more forbidden activities; Columbine; Is Religion good for you?; evolution. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, July 1999 | | 7/1/1999 |
| Description: Al Gore and God; Boys and adventure stories; Multiculturalism and feminism as ideologies. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, June 1999 | | 6/1/1999 |
| Description: Three Cultures; Success at Frederick Douglass Academy; Chemistry sets; Oliver Sackes |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, May 1999 | | 5/1/1999 |
| Description: Milken and Mother Teresa; Investor's Business Daily and morality; egalitarianism and journalism. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, April 1999 | | 4/1/1999 |
| Description: Zimbabwe; Postmodern classical music; Harvard's Human Behavioral Biology; countering the myth of Native Americans ecology. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, March 1999 | | 3/1/1999 |
| Description: Elia Kazan; nihilism and relativism; rap; tree hugging |
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| Article | Market Research Discovers the Three Subcultures | Roger Donway | 2/1/1999 |
| Description: An article by Roger Donway on the growing evidence for the existence of three separate subcultures in America |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, October 1998 | | 10/1/1998 |
| Description: Fideism, Welfare, Russia not capitalist, Hong Kong under China |
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| Center News | Objectivism Today: The Real Culture Wars | | 10/1/1998 |
| Description: The 1998 Objectivism Today conference, to be held on October 24 in New York City, will strive to present Objectivists with a new vision of the cultural factions now contesting for dominance in American society. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, July/August 1998 | | 7/1/1998 |
| Description: Virginia Postrel and Forbes; Free-Market Environmentalism; Multiculturalism; secular humanism |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, March 1998 | | 3/1/1998 |
| Description: Software Publishers Association; Microsoft; Humanism and Objectivism; Victimhood in Britian |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, February 1998 | | 2/1/1998 |
| Description: Institute for Field-Being; Mr Magoo and National Federation of the Blind; Utne Reader on advertising; Buchan on Money; 1996 Welfare law, teacher evaluations. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, January 1998 | | 1/1/1998 |
| Description: Angels in Times Herald-Record, America Works, Soviet Gulag, Objectivists are not Conservatives, Buddhist monks. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, November 1997 | | 11/1/1997 |
| Description: Items that reveal the state of the culture, in America or the world |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, October 1997 | | 10/1/1997 |
| Description: Mind/Body Dichotomy at NIH, Martin Gardner's Theism, Sharpe's Tiger, British National Lottery, Real African-Americans. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, September 1997 | | 9/1/1997 |
| Description: Mario Bunge's errors, problems in Russia and Mexico, T.J. Rodgers and the end of Corporate Welfare, Witch hunt at New Paltz, the sign of the dollar. |
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| Interview | The State of the Culture, 1997 | | 9/1/1997 |
| Description: IOS executive director David Kelley identifies the three subcultures that are contesting for America's future and names the four strategies Objectivists must take to further Enlightenment values. |
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| Article | Early Light | David Kelley | 6/1/1991 |
| Description: An article by David Kelley describing the motivation for forming the Institute for Objectivist Studies (now The Objectivist Center). |
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