Like a stock market that has finally found its bottom after a long, volatile decline, my spiritual assets were nearly depleted. I finally...
Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty last Thursday, March 12, to running a massive Ponzi scheme that swindled investors out of some $65 billion. He
We’ve seen this week just what sort of warped morality guides Barack Obama and his administration. And we’ve seen just what we can expect if
Winston Churchill famously observed that, “socialism is the equal sharing of misery.” In the same spirit, Democratic presidential candidate
They say that fish can’t see the water they swim in. It’s a common analogy for the tendency to take our basic values and principles so much
In 1972, just two years after the first Earth Day, a team of scholars from MIT published a 200-page book called The Limits to Growth. Using
The first 2008 presidential election event involving the presumptive nominees, Illinois Democratic Senator Barack Obama and Arizona Republic
H.L. Mencken once wrote that, “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.....
The 9/11 attacks and the subsequent war on Islamic jihadism divided virtually every ideological faction in America. On the far left,
What has prompted people, over the course of three millennia, to look upon work and commerce as degrading and deceitful? Why have they
Readers of Ayn Rand ’s Atlas Shrugged , which so notably portrayed the American businessman as a hero, may well be wondering what to say
Ayn Rand published her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged in 1957. It's an enduringly popular novel -- all 1,168 pages of it -- with some 150,000
One evening after the publication of The Fountainhead , Ayn Rand was on the phone, discussing her disappointment over early sales with....
Ayn Rand called Atlas Shrugged a “stunt novel.” She meant that it is a rollicking entertainment: a mystery novel with dramatic twists and
As the prices of oil, gasoline, and natural gas have skyrocketed over the past year, many people have demanded that the government do
Ayn Rand. Her name is a kind of psychological litmus test; it inevitably provokes violent reactions of either fierce admiration or
Today, we live “in the future”—the future that for decades had been depicted in science fiction, pursued by scientists and engineers, and...
It's one of the hottest ideas in health care policy.
In 1859, the first treatise on “best practices” appeared: Self-Help, With Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance, by Samuel..
