Regrettably, these somber remembrances and thoughtful reflections were marred by the loud, incendiary claims of conspiracy theorists.

Mar 29, 2011

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Robert James Bidinotto

6 Mins

November 2006 -- Because our April cover story chronicled the Enron debacle, we ran the following quotation from Ayn Rand on our table of contents page:

Mar 29, 2011

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November 2006 -- In the early twentieth century, Argentina was one of the most prosperous countries in the world with one of the highest living standards. Rich in resources, a leading producer of beef and farm commodities, it had railroads, electricity, and all the infrastructure of an advanced country. Its population was largely European, from Spain, Italy, Britain, Germany, and France. Beautiful Buenos Aires was considered the Paris of South America.

Mar 29, 2011

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Movie buffs still hotly debate whether Don Siegel’s 1957 cult classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a cautionary allegory against McCarthyism, or against communism. I have a different take.

Mar 29, 2011

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How do you take a smug child of wealth and portray his moral denunciations of self-made men as admirable? How do you relate the career of a politician who recklessly violates the rule of law and make him look like a statesman?

Mar 29, 2011

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An effective self-help guide lies in scope and universality somewhere between Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and a plumbing manual.

Mar 29, 2011

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Tom Wolfe is one of the most original, honest, and unfettered contemporary observers of American culture alive today. Originator of “the New

Mar 28, 2011

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Marsha Enright

10 Mins

Among the virtues we promote at The New Individualist are the courage, independence, integrity, and vision of creative producers in all walk

Mar 28, 2011

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Walter Donway

7 Mins

January/February 2006 -- Although Ayn Rand was born a century ago, and although she died a generation ago, her philosophy of Objectivism is

Mar 28, 2011

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Edward Hudgins

10 Mins

In his feature-film directorial debut, Andy Garcia uses the screen as his canvas to paint a vibrant and wistful picture of a Havana he never

Mar 28, 2011

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Robert L. Jones

4 Mins

How can I say this? Surely we know the Republican response: “Think of the grim alternative! Congressional committees dominated or chaired by

Mar 28, 2011

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Edward Hudgins

15 Mins

Decades of ideological corruption of scholarship in American universities have crippled us in the war against Islamic jihad.

Mar 28, 2011

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What does a true artist live for, deep in his soul?

Mar 28, 2011

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anuary/February 2006 -- “Ayn Rand is dead,” wrote conservative author William F. Buckley in an obituary column in 1982. “So, incidentally, is the philosophy she sought to launch dead; it was in fact stillborn.”

Mar 28, 2011

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One can hardly convey, a half-century after the publication of Atlas Shrugged , the excitement of teenagers who became Objectivists in the early 1960s. Objectivism was, clearly, the true philosophy; that much we knew. Perhaps more exactly, Objectivism was philosophy—it was the very enterprise of philosophy restored, to live again as once it had lived in ancient Athens. With William Wordsworth, we could say:

Mar 28, 2011

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The twentieth century was the high point of mass culture—or “the overculture” as some call it. Any culture that could produce Citizen Kane..

Mar 25, 2011

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Edward B. Driscoll, Jr.

10 Mins

April 2006 -- V for Vendetta. Starring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, and John Hurt. Screenplay by Andy Wachowski

Mar 25, 2011

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Robert L. Jones

4 Mins

Imagine a novel whose mysterious main character you do not meet until page 236. He is reviled by some for his greed and destructiveness.....

Mar 25, 2011

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Marsha Enright

10

After a nearly two-decades-long absence, the Man of Steel returns to the big screen in this superb fifth installment in the Superman series

Mar 25, 2011

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Robert L. Jones and Marimer Navarrete

6 Mins

Fall 2006 -- As I was completing work today on this issue of the magazine, I received an e-mail announcing publication of Ryan Sager’s new

Mar 25, 2011

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Robert James Bidinotto

7 Mins