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James Clavell's Asian Adventures

So said James Clavell, an Australian immigrant to America who learned the fundamentals of the American outlook on life in a horrific...

Mar 23, 2011
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Marsha Enright
10 Mins
TV Review: "A Singular Creature"

Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the...

Mar 23, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
9 Mins
The Lives of Others: The Man in the Gray Flannel Life

May 2007 -- In the previous issue, I wrote: “I offer Pan’s Labyrinth as exhibit ‘A’ that the independent revolution is over.” After seeing

Mar 23, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
6 Mins
Sidebar: Postmodern Fallacies

Postmodern scholars assert the following contradictory claims....

Mar 23, 2011
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2 Mins
Book Reviews: From Faith to Force

Sam Harris opens The End of Faith with the story of a young man who boards a bus, carrying a bomb under his coat. He sits next to a middle..

Mar 23, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
7 Mins
Book Reviews: Verily Verily, Verily, Verily, Life is Not a Dream

The fundamental nature of truth was explained by Aristotle in Book IV of his Metaphysics, decisively and unforgettably, in words that are at

Mar 21, 2011
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8 Mins
Noteworthy Films from the Moving Picture Institute

Most of us remember well the 1980 victory of the American Olympic ice hockey team over the heavily favored Soviet team at Lake Placid, New Y

Mar 21, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
9 Mins
Film Review: Life of a Salesman

March 2007 -- The Pursuit of Happyness. Starring Will Smith, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, James Karen, Dan

Mar 21, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
5 Mins
Book Review: The God Delusion

Friedrich Nietzsche may have spoken prematurely when he proclaimed, “God is Dead!” Enter Richard Dawkins to complete God’s interment...

Mar 21, 2011
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Hugo Schmidt
6 Mins
Book Review: "Crunchy Cons"

CCHBBGLOGEFRFHHMRWNLATDTOCCPTSAOALTRP is an extended moan against individualism, technology, the “cult of efficiency,” the free market....

Mar 21, 2011
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Alec Mouhibian
7 Mins
Freedom's Filmmakers

March 2007 -- Friends of freedom in America and elsewhere are often distressed that much of popular culture, especially on movie and TV

Mar 21, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
8 Mins
Film Review: Somebody Down Here Loves Ya

For years, as a guilty pleasure, I haunted my local multiplex to revel repeatedly in the serial cinematic exploits of Sylvester Stallone’s

Mar 21, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
7 Mins
Private I: Libertarianism: Bohemian or Bourgeois?

June 2007 -- When we measure the progress of a society by its growth in freedom, we measure it . . . by the greater power on the part of the

Mar 18, 2011
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Roger Donway
9 Mins
Die Walkure in DC: Blight at the Opera

June 2007 -- I love opera! Thus recently I saw Die Walküre, the second installment of Richard Wagner’s monumental, four-part Ring cycle, at

Mar 18, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
6 Mins
Bobos, Liberaltarians, and Hippies of the Right

“Pretty soon [the young intellectual] will announce that it is time to reject the false choices of both left and right. We must all move

Mar 18, 2011
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10 Mins
Film Review: "Because Rough Men Stand Ready"

June 2007 -- 300. Starring Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West, David Wenham, Vincent Regan, Michael Fassbender, Tom Wisdom, Andrew

Mar 18, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
6 Mins
TV Review: "For Want of a Nail..."

James Burke’s series, Connections, is subtitled An Alternative View of Change because his perspective on technology and the social change

Mar 18, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
9 Mins
Strike from Space: Seizing the Ultimate High Ground

July/August 2007 -- In 1989, a solar flare helped trigger the shutdown of a good portion of eastern Canada’s electrical grid. In May 1998

Mar 18, 2011
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Taylor Dinerman
8 Mins
Film Review: Miss Potter: Color Me Charmed

As gentle as 300 is gory, this biopic, starring Renée Zellweger as famed children’s author and illustrator Beatrix Potter, is director

Mar 18, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
5 Mins
Film Review: The More Things Change, the More He Stays the Same

The Music Never Ends. Featuring Clint Eastwood, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Martin Scorsese, Arthur Penn, Bill

Mar 17, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
5 Mins

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