This is how it starts. You read We the Living and get a taste for freedom. You read Anthem and develop a benevolent sense of life. You read
Academics, the media, and Democratic politicians, like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, have suggested that reducing inequality should be a central objective of public policy.
It is one thing to grieve the election of a president many consider inappropriate to the office. But it is quite another to call for the
“Islamic Philosophy: The Good, the Bad, and the Dangerous” is a two-part lecture about the philosophical roots of Islamic terrorism. I gave
Early in Atlas Shrugged, Dagny and her then-lover Hank Rearden, the brilliant and hardworking founder and head of Rearden Metal, decided to
A second critical difference that sheds light on the divergent universes of Henry James and Ayn Rand is how they conceived human action.....
Ayn Rand was not the only great “mother” of the modern liberty philosophy. Isabel Patterson and Rose Wilder Lane have also been recognized
The Portrait of a Lady is considered the greatest novel by one of the greatest novelists in the English language....
For us to make this point, we need to be very clear about what capitalism is and what it isn’t. This is especially true given the term
Henry James did not consider the subject matter of his novels to be inherently the proper one for all novelists. It was the proper one for
Henry James wrote his essay “A Lecture on the Art of Fiction” in 1884 in response to novelist Walter Besant. Besant gave a lecture at the...
Henry James (1843-1916) is a major American author. His numerous novels and novellas include What Maisie Knew, The Turn of the Screw, The
When Steve Ditko picked up the phone over two years ago, I stammered an introduction, thanking him for the generous checks he’d written for
Listen, my children, and you shall learn
Ayn Rand left an intellectual legacy the size of Mount Everest. A mountain this size cannot be traversed in a few hours, the literary equivalent of which is 36,000 words.
Ayn Rand was right of course. Rand was right about living conditions in Russia. She was right about the logical conclusions of communism....
As Dreiser depicts them, Clyde Griffiths and Roberta Alden are not lovers so much as they are victims. Biology and society conspire against
With the passage of the recent bipartisan budget agreement and its $300 billion assault on spending caps, coming on the heels of the GOP’s..
In the last decade of the 18th century Beethoven composed his 1st and 2nd piano concertos, Goya etched the series Los Caprichos, Jacques-Lou
The machine is a defining cultural element of the 20th century. The machine and mass production influences man’s view of himself, his
