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Restoring Glory: A Renaissance-style Art Studio Creates Modern Magic

Bill Mensching has aged a painting four hundred years, created a gigantic glass mural for a hotel in Las Vegas, and shipped the makings of..

Jul 3, 2010
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Amanda Erickson
5 Mins
The Bright Idea: The IQ2 US Debates

Since 2006, the most objective presentations of conservative views to be heard in Manhattan have probably been those offered at a program...

Jul 3, 2010
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5 Mins
The Second Life

But does every man feel like this at forty – I mean it’s like Thomas Wolfe’s New York, his heady light, the stunning plunging canyons...

Jul 3, 2010
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Edwin Morgan
2 Mins
Orthodox Unorthodoxy

America is on the verge of a major economic and political crisis. Accordingly, it is a time for a transformative vision of society, a vision

Jul 2, 2010
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David Högberg
7 Mins
Iron Without, Fire Within

Like any story relying on the fantastic, the superhero film has a test: does the fantastic sharpen and enhance the theme and the conflicts..

Jul 1, 2010
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Hugo Schmidt
5 Mins
The Cyborg Variations

The piano prelude begins insistently, with a loud, rhythmic figure repeated immediately at a lower register. The music winds up and down

Jul 1, 2010
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Kira Newman
9 Mins
Galaxy Girl: From Classical to Electronica

Ask Jeannette Claudine Romeu what she does, and you’ll get a collection of answers. The fifth-generation musician is by turns a pianist...

Jul 1, 2010
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3 Mins
The Literary Achievement of The Fountainhead

Six decades after its publication, The Fountainhead is still very much alive. New readers by the hundreds find it every day

Jun 30, 2010
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Steve Cox
10 mins
Instant Books and Instapundits

In its heyday, the instant book was an invaluable resource. Appearing shortly after a major news event, the tome would give a complete news

Jun 29, 2010
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6 Mins
Transhumanism: How Does it Relate to Objectivism?

Transhumanism (e.g. H+ ) or Extropianism is an ideological coalition centered on the idea that, in the near future, substantial....

Jun 29, 2010
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William Thomas
3 Mins
Does Being Your Brother's Keeper Cause You Strife?

Objectivism reads "I am my brother's keeper" as a short-hand for an ideal of self-sacrifice and service to the group. In other words, it...

Jun 29, 2010
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William Thomas
5 Mins
From Worldview to Worldstorm

This award-winning documentary was directed by Latvian filmmaker, Edvīns Šnore, and debuted to considerable acclaim at film festivals

Jun 27, 2010
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Jason Walker
10 Mins
The Individualist's Guide to Progressive Change

If socialism were a respectable affiliation, Progressives would probably call themselves “democratic socialists.”But socialism died as a....

Jun 26, 2010
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William Thomas
10 Mins
Postmodernism and the Jefferson-Hemmings Myth

I concur in the conclusion of the Scholars Commission: the allegation that Thomas Jefferson fathered one or more children by his slave....

Jun 23, 2010
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David N. Mayer
6 Mins
Darwin Agonistes

I’m never impressed by those studies that come out every so often showing that some large percentage of the American citizenry “does not

Jun 23, 2010
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Hugo Schmidt
5 Mins
Faith, Reason, and the Good Life

We are surrounded by examples, from the sublime to the murderous, that illustrate the importance in human life of the systems of belief we

Jun 22, 2010
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Ken Livingston
10 Mins
What Kant Wrought

My theme is that, on the German intellectual landscape, Kant is as close to Enlightenment thinking as it gets. From the perspective of most

Jun 22, 2010
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Stephen Hicks Ph.D.
6 Mins
Join the Ogre Resistance

It looks as though Dreamworks could not have come up with a better slogan for its final Shrek movie: After

Jun 22, 2010
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2 Mins
Five Superstitions that Harm Haiti

The earthquake in Haiti that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and inflicted untold misery on the inhabitants of that country has

Jun 21, 2010
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Eddie Hudgins
4 Mins
Happy-Face Totalitarian Commercials

The first was the “Green Police” advertisement for Audi that was broadcast during this year’s Super Bowl. It starts with a clerk asking a...

Jun 21, 2010
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Eddie Hudgins
5 Mins

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