Near the beginning of the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Butch Cassidy is challenged to a knife fight by another member of his Ho
Near the beginning of the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Butch Cassidy is challenged to a knife fight by another member of his Ho
When Washington Post reporter Brooke Masters set out to write this thorough account of Eliot Spitzer’s career as attorney general of New....
February 19, 2009 -- Fear serves an important function, alerting us to perceived danger. As long as that perception is grounded in reality
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In life, we take risks to achieve and maintain values. Objectivism holds that you should choose a course in life that will be conducive to
Early in her novel Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand presents us with a scene aboard a train that is entering Philadelphia. “An office building...
Objectivism holds that the sole purpose of government is to secure our right to live free from force. This implies property rights and
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It's a typical 3-H Washington, D.C. summer: hazy, hot and humid. And with small variations, the rest of the country...
In February of this year, the Danish newspaper Politiken issued a formal apology for republishing a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed clad....
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
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...
The entrepreneurial spirit is the spirit of enterprise: ambition to succeed, initiative in taking action, alertness to opportunity. It mean
Like a stock market that has finally found its bottom after a long, volatile decline, my spiritual assets were nearly depleted. I finally...
In 1859, the first treatise on “best practices” appeared: Self-Help, With Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance, by Samuel..
In 2005, at Minnesota’s St. Olaf College, the stirring peroration of that year’s commencement address advised the graduating seniors to
I’m doing an autobiography. My long-time friend and colleague, Thomas Sowell, wrote an autobiography, A Personal Odyssey. He’s been after
Eliot Spitzer became the attorney general of New York in 1999. In addition to carrying out the routine functions of that office, he has used
Dagny Taggart shoots guns and flies airplanes. These rational survival skills exhilarate all the heroes in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged...