As the opening title montage for We Own the Night closes, the film cuts to a familiar nightclub scene that places the audience in the

As the opening title montage for We Own the Night closes, the film cuts to a familiar nightclub scene that places the audience in the
Newton Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in the early 1960s, famously called television a “vast wasteland.” He wanted
With America committed to war overseas, an American president (who many consider to be racist) suspends vast swatches of American liberties
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Ludwig von Mises and Ayn Rand share the distinction of being the leading voices for individual freedom and the market economy during the....
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...
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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...
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
In his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in tandem with the script for the epic movie of the same name, Arthur....
One of the pleasures of being idealistic and pointing out society’s flaws is being asked all too frequently, “If you don’t like it here...
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BOOK REVIEW: Terry Goodkind, The Sword of Truth series (New York: Tor Books, 1994–2005).