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Samuel Insull: Human Dynamo

Atlas Summit 2014 -- He was, arguably, the most inspirational success story of the business era immediately preceding the New Deal. He was

Dec 15, 2014
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2 Mins
Review of Interstellar

Interstellar shouts to the world that Americans should be achievers, but then it steals from them the ability to succeed.Interstellar-movie

Dec 3, 2014
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4 mins
Redskins Name and Warped Liberal Minds

Some 5,000 demonstrators in Minneapolis denounced the Washington Redskins’ team name just before the team’s game with the Minnesota Vikings.

Nov 7, 2014
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Ayn Rand is Bad Taste

That’s the one thing the New York literary world can agree on, it seems.In the New York Times Book Review on Sunday, November 2, two...

Nov 2, 2014
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William Thomas
2 Mins
Building the liberty movement

What makes for a successful movement in favor of liberty and reason? Alexander McCobin, co-founder and president of Students for Liberty....

Oct 20, 2014
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1 Min
Red is the color of human life

“Meat is not green. Go vegan.” Walking to work this morning, I passed a delivery truck with that message on its side. Green is a lovely

Oct 17, 2014
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David Kelley Ph.D
1 Min
Don't ban religious teaching, teach reason

Recently Zoltan Istvan, author of the provocative book The Transhumanist Wager, called for “regulation that restricts religious indoctrinati

Oct 2, 2014
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Bucking the Establishment in art

ATLAS SUMMIT 2014 -- Paul Ingbretson is an accomplished professional artist and teacher and a leading modern-day exponent of what became

Sep 2, 2014
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2 Mins
Transhumanism vs. a Conservative Death Ethos

Zoltan Istvan, author of the"License provocative novel The Transhumanist Wager (I’ll review it soon), recently suggested in Wired that...

Aug 20, 2014
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Suicide and Reasons to Live

The death of entertainer Robin Williams has again brought to public discussion the serious matter of suicide.Robin Williams hope for those

Aug 15, 2014
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
The Moral and Cultural Significance of "Genie, you're free"

“Genie, you’re free.” In Disney’s Aladdin, those are the words in which the Genie learns that after thousands of years of being forced to...

Aug 13, 2014
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Alexander R. Cohen
3 Mins
Rand Paul Revolution in Silicon Valley

Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, recently spoke at the “ Rebooting Congress, Causes and Campaigns 2014 ” conference in Silicon Valley...

Jul 25, 2014
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Corpses, and Context

Television newscasts over the past week have featured videos of corpses, including the bodies of children, piled in hospitals and morgues

Jul 23, 2014
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Edward Hudgins
4 mins
The First Moon Landing 45 Years On

On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first human beings to land and walk on the Moon. Armstrong is no longer with us

Jul 18, 2014
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Edward Hudgins
2 Mins
The Single Bullet That Killed 16 Million

In retaliation, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Serbia’s ally Russia declared war on Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary’s ally Germany

Jun 27, 2014
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Cantor's Defeat and the GOP Establishment's Dilemma

Establishment Republicans are in shock over the Virginia primary loss by GOP House majority leader Eric Cantor at the hands of Dave Brat

Jun 11, 2014
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Edward Hudgins
6 Mins
D-Day and Enlightenment Values

My late Uncle “Boots” Van Pelt was almost killed 70 years ago. He went ashore on Omaha Beach with the 29th Infantry Division on D-Day....

Jun 6, 2014
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Family Values Still Threaten GOP

In another skirmish in the GOP’s civil war, Ken Blackwell recently linked mass killings with same-sex unions. This is why, in spite of the..

May 30, 2014
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Climate Kerfuffle on Cosmos

I’m a big fan of the Cosmos reboot series, just as I was of the Carl Sagan original. But the host Neil deGrasse Tyson recently stumbled very

May 23, 2014
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Ben Swann headlines John Galt Dinner

In Ayn Rand's magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, John Galt is a hero, a revolutionary, a scientist, an inventor, a thinker, and a leader. Where

May 14, 2014
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3 mins

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