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Film Review: Barn Burner

April 2007 -- The Astronaut Farmer. Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Max Thieriot, Jasper Polish, Bruce Dern, Mark Polish, Jon

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
5 Mins
Book Review: Shall "the Permanent Things" Endure?

“Conservatism is too often a conservation of the wrong things,” said T.S. Eliot during a lecture in 1937, “liberalism a relaxation of

Mar 16, 2011
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6 Mins
Film Review: The Elephant in the Womb

April 2008 -- Juno. Starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons, Olivia Thirlby, Eileen

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
7 Mins
Film Review: Something Rotten in Denmark

Beowulf. Featuring Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn, Angelina Jolie, Crispin Glover, Sonje Fortag, Sharisse

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
5 Mins
Inside "The Excuse-Making Industry" Part 2

December 2007 -- Editor’s note: Last month, Part I of the “Inside the Excuse-Making Industry” explained how, in the 1960s and 1970s, social

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert J. Bidinotto
10 Mins
Film Review: Back to the Badlands

I hate remakes. They are, mostly, an insult to filmgoers. Their implicit justification is either “audiences won’t go for old movies that

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
6 Mins
The Artist's I: Peter Schipperheyn's Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The world of contemporary art is a big place with many contradictory movements. For anyone who wishes to be inspired by art, opening the

Mar 16, 2011
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Michael Newberry
6 Mins
Book Review: A Journey of Courage

Imagine you are a colonel—a highly decorated war hero—in the greatest army on the face of the earth. You savor the taste of victory as your

Mar 16, 2011
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John Enright
5 Mins
Film Review: The Ends Justify the Meanness

I thoroughly enjoyed Michael Moore’s “documentary” Sicko. I went to San Antonio’s Bijou Crossroads on its opening night, and from the looks

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
6 Mins
Book Review: Seven Deadly Sins, Part III: Lust

Simon Blackburn has an ambitious goal: to raise lust “from the category of sin to that of virtue.” His effort, Lust, is the third in a...

Mar 15, 2011
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Bradley Doucet
9 Mins
Book Review: The Legacy of an Intellectual Giant

Ludwig von Mises and Ayn Rand share the distinction of being the leading voices for individual freedom and the market economy during the....

Mar 15, 2011
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Edward William Younkins
9 Mins
The Artist's I: Jeff Larson

May 2008 -- The easy integration of natural-looking people and outdoor scenes is one of the hardest-won achievements in the history of art..

Mar 15, 2011
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Michael Newberry
6 Mins
Book Review: A Young Person's Guide to Aristotle

While our bookstores and school library shelves are filled with biographies for young readers on sports heroes and politically correct

Mar 15, 2011
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Jack Criss
2 Mins
Rational Individualism Will Survive

May 2008 -- One of my editorial pleasures is to be able to showcase fine thinkers who are willing and able to debate the implications of sha

Mar 15, 2011
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Robert J. Bidinotto
6 Mins
Looking into the (Ed School) Abyss

June 2002 -- I recently had occasion to meet with two leading administrators of one of the country's largest school districts. This

Mar 6, 2011
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Bradford P. Wilson
6 Mins
A Modern Scholasticism: Reflections on Derrida's "Cogito and the History of Madness

My primary assignment in this post is to comment on Jacques Derrida’s lecture “Cogito and the History of Madness.” So, I will begin with...

Feb 28, 2011
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9 Mins
Atlas Shrugged Movie: Interview with John Aglialoro

Let me give you some background first. I had purchased a fifteen-year lease to make a movie of the book in August 1992 from Leonard Peikoff

Feb 15, 2011
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Edouard Hudgins
7 Mins
America's Pioneer Spirit: Government vs. New Frontiers

In his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in tandem with the script for the epic movie of the same name, Arthur....

Feb 10, 2011
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Edouard Hudgins
9 Mins
The Randian Fantasies of Terry Goodkind

BOOK REVIEW: Terry Goodkind, The Sword of Truth series (New York: Tor Books, 1994–2005).

Feb 8, 2011
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William Perry
10 Mins
Feminism and the Future

Winter 2010 -- Imagine a rich, new media landscape—one that extols complex heroines whose lives expand a young women's sense of the many...

Feb 8, 2011
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10 Mins

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