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Obstruction of Freedom

September 10, 2004 -- On September 9, Frank Quattrone, a prominent investment banker formerly with Credit Suisse First Boston, was sentenced

Mar 31, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
2 Mins
Inadvertent Observations in Denys Arcand

February 2, 2004 -- Given the fact that the title of director Denys Arcand's previous film was The Decline of the American Empire, that his

Mar 31, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Human Cloning is Good for All of Us

April 3, 2001 -- Last week, Congress began holding hearings on human cloning. Given the highly charged debate that human cloning is likely

Mar 31, 2010
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Patrick Stephens
3 Mins
Is Community Service Really a Good Idea?

April 22, 2002 -- President Bush has declared the fourth week of April to be National Volunteer Week. This is a follow-up to his call for al

Mar 31, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 mins
What Does Objectivism Consider to be Art (Aesthetics)?

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value judgments. Man's profound need of art lies in the fact

Mar 25, 2010
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William Thomas
5 Mins
Government Funding vs. the Progress of Science

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.....

Mar 19, 2010
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Malini Kochhar
3 Mins
Goodwill Toward Men

December 17, 2004 -- Christmas is a season of beautiful lights, parties, gifts, food, family, friends, songs, and sentiments. Among the

Mar 19, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Destroying Embryos Is Not Immoral

April 3, 2001 -- Human life begins at conception. Biologically speaking, human life begins when a cell with 23 pairs of chromosomes capable

Mar 16, 2010
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Patrick Stephens
3 Mins
Decline Demands Philosophers, Not Censors

January 1, 2001 -- "Is civilization really going down the tube?" asked New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman in an article entitled...

Mar 16, 2010
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3 Mins
Creating Our Own Blessings

Ancient philosophers like Aristotle maintained that we create the most important thing in life for ourselves—our moral character. When

Mar 16, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
Dear Virginia, No There is No Santa Claus

December 10, 2001 -- In 1897, Virginia O'Hanlon wrote to The New York Sun: “I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Sant

Mar 16, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Columbus Day: In Praise of Exploitation

Many critics argue that Christopher Columbus gave us a devil's bargain. In October 1492, that Italian explorer, working for Spain, opened...

Mar 16, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Celebrating Apollo 11's Sense of Life

July 20, 2004--It has been three and a half decades now since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first of a dozen men to walk on the

Mar 16, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 mins
Art and Ideals

February 1, 2004 -- Some 30 to 40 thousand years ago, human beings began making images in caves like Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc in southern France

Mar 15, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
6 Mins
Anti-Globalism and Nihilism

July 25, 2001 -- This week, people will travel inexpensively from all over the globe to Genoa, Italy—to protest the policies that made their

Mar 15, 2010
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William Thomas
3 Mins
American Muslims: Cleaning Their Own House

March 28, 2003 -- American Muslims must be feeling despair over the news that Asam Akbar, a sergeant serving in Kuwait and an American

Mar 15, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
The Eccentric Entrepreneur

It’s about 2:30 a.m. when Laurent Prouvost bursts out of the pizzeria into driving rain. He races down Hickory Street after his stolen pedic

Jan 4, 2010
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Danny Fulgencio
8 Mins
Fashion Forward

If the great cities of the world were personified as women, you might think of Paris as fearlessly avant-garde. New York is, obviously, a...

Nov 30, 2009
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Amanda Erickson
6 Mins
Why haven't we been back to the moon?

Forty years ago this week, on July 16, 1969, at 9:32 a.m. EDT, Apollo 11 blasted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Four and a half...

Jul 17, 2009
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Bradley Doucet
4 Mins
Obama's Era of Responsibility

“What is required of us now,” said President Barack Obama in his inaugural speech, “is a new era of responsibility—a recognition, on the....

Jun 30, 2009
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David Kelley Ph.D
6 Mins

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