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Wednesday
June 2, 2004
Commentary
The Vile Draft I
by G. Stolyarov II
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In a public letter to Illinois Senator Peter Fitzgerald, Mr. Stolyarov explains the fundamentally un-American nature of a potential military draft looming over the United States. (Read more...)
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Saturday
May 29, 2004
Poetry
Who Says Man's Body's Perfect?
by G. Stolyarov II
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Religious conservatives have frequently asserted that man's form is perfect by nature and forged in God's image, that it is a sin to mend it via genetic engineering and artificial enhancements. G. Stolyarov II responds in this poem. (Read more...)
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Sunday
May 9, 2004
Poetry
The Lemmings
by G. Stolyarov II
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A poem about collectivist rodents ... and what happens to them. (Read more...)
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Saturday
April 10, 2004
Arts
The Inexperienced
by G. Stolyarov II
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In this miniplay, a young rational composer confronts a world-renowned writer of "avant-garde" music. (Read more...)
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Saturday
April 3, 2004
Objectivism
An Objectivist Statement of Resolves
by G. Stolyarov II
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A formal explication of all the ideas held in common by Objectivists, and an endeavor to focus attention on these principles for the sake of their cultural propagation. (Read more...)
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Saturday
March 27, 2004
Commentary
1984-Style Surveillance, Today
by G. Stolyarov II
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A national computerized database, federal spying on private bank accounts, the legal kidnapping of children from their homes and parents, institutionalized reporting on people's private lives... this, to G. Stolyarov II, smacks of totalitarianism of the sort George Orwell had described. (Read more...)
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Tuesday
March 9, 2004
Commentary
The Orwellian Popular Culture of Modernity
by G. Stolyarov II
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The society of Oceania in Orwell’s 1984 employs entertainment of the utmost vulgarity and a perversity not encountered by a man of proper tastes in order to satisfy the “instinctive urges” of its proletariat. The Oceanians’ music possesses an inhuman crudeness and resembles more the severe thumping of a drum than a me... (Read more...)
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Wednesday
February 4, 2004
Commentary
An Objective Filosofy of Linguistics: Installment I
by G. Stolyarov II
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In this article I argue from reason and individualism for a scientific system of orthografy which permits no arbitrary social conventions to rule one's speech. As a first step toward the full systematization of English, I propose a time-saving spelling reform. (Read more...)
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Friday
January 23, 2004
Commentary
The Mutability of Past
by G. Stolyarov II
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"Before our very eyes, history is being transformed into politically correct fantasy."
~ Paul Craig Roberts (Read more...)

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Thursday
January 15, 2004
War for Men's Minds
The Rational Man’s Dilemma
by G. Stolyarov II
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A key notion in Objectivist thought is the withholding of the sanction of the victim, the tacit compliance of a man with the violations of his own rights. It becomes evident that today's dismal political state, which will inevitably thrust itself into nearly every area of every man's private life, cannot be ignored or passively endured. Yet, with the assault occurring on so many fronts, how does one select one's battles in order to deal the enemy a critical blow, and what tactics are permissible in the undertaking of such endeavors? (Read more...)
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Thursday
December 25, 2003
Poetry
Christmas Demystified
by G. Stolyarov II
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A poem. (Read more...)
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Monday
December 1, 2003
Poetry
Liberty in Exile
by G. Stolyarov II
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An allegorical poem concerning the deterioration of freedom in American society, which has been exacerbated by the recent government expansion of Medicare. (Read more...)
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Friday
November 21, 2003
Commentary
The Evil of Forced Volunteerism
by G. Stolyarov II
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The schools of the Dewey system and leftist bureaucrats in Washington have recently allied for the promotion of mandatory youth groups similar to the Pioneers of the former Soviet Union and the Spies of Mr. Orwell's dystopia. (Read more...)
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Monday
October 20, 2003
Commentary
The Ishmael Paradigm
by G. Stolyarov II
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A review and refutation of a novel that has become a sacred cow of the left: Ishmael exhibits precisely that tribalist-collectivist mindset which both Ayn Rand and George Orwell had warned the world about. (Read more...)
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Thursday
September 25, 2003
Commentary
Politeness and Objective Ethics
by G. Stolyarov II
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An essay deriving key components of propriety, politeness, and manners from Objective Etiquette. (Read more...)
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Monday
September 15, 2003
The Good Life
The Public-Private Ethical Distinction
by G. Stolyarov II
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This essay is a treatise defining and classifying privacy in ethics from an Objectivist perspective. It addresses questions such as the foundation of privacy, and which general categories of affairs it is best for an individual to retain private as a matter of proper etiquette. (Read more...)
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Thursday
August 28, 2003
Commentary
The Protectorate: The Ultimate Check
by G. Stolyarov II
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During the summer of 2002, I had had the pleasure of touring through Canada with a guide who was one of the most ingenious, industrious, and rationally selfish men I had ever met. (Read more...)
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Thursday
August 21, 2003
Commentary
Meritocracy: Cleansing the Smear
by G. Stolyarov II
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The word "meritocracy" has often been employed as a pejorative smear against the system of capitalism, which, claimed the egalitarians, establishes the self-contradictory notion of a caste system based on merit (!), which supposedly elevates inherently "gifted" men into positions of "dominance" over the inherently "deprived of mind." (Read more...)
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Wednesday
August 13, 2003
Commentary
The Betrayal of Checks and Balances
by G. Stolyarov II
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The philosophy of Ayn Rand has taught me and numerous other thinkers of the new intellectual Renaissance the moral groundwork for laissez-faire capitalism as the sole economic system which fully and unequivocally recognizes the individual's objective prerequisites to survival, his natural rights of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and property. With slight loopholes, this was the implicit philosophy behind the founding of America, and the principal force in its first one hundred fifty years of development. (Read more...)
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Tuesday
July 29, 2003
Poetry
The Magnate and the Moon
by G. Stolyarov II
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A poem. (Read more...)
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Friday
July 18, 2003
Objectivism
A Critique of Murray Rothbard's "Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult" (Part 3 of 3)
by G. Stolyarov II
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"The 'Gold' of Rothbard's Analysis", "Randian Authoritarianism?", and "In Summation". (Read more...)
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Thursday
July 17, 2003
Objectivism
A Critique of Murray Rothbard's "Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult" (Part 2 of 3)
by G. Stolyarov II
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"What is Humor and What is Sacrilage" and "Revisionism and the Hatred of the Good". (Read more...)
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Wednesday
July 16, 2003
Objectivism
A Critique of Murray Rothbard's "Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult" (Part 1 of 3)
by G. Stolyarov II
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Introduction and "The Reason-Passion Dichotomy" (Read more...)
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Wednesday
July 9, 2003
Commentary
A Campaign for Liberty: The Liberian Occupation
by G. Stolyarov II
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With the situation in Iraq rapidly stabilizing as vestiges of the tyrannical Hussein regime are being efficiently eliminated, the United States has obtained the opportunity to consider another foreign involvement and a commitment of troops, a relatively minor one in comparison to the Iraq War. (Read more...)
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Friday
June 13, 2003
Objectivism
An Objectivist Condemnation of Abortion
by G. Stolyarov II
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A dissenting opinion on abortion, in which the author argues the incompatibility of Rand's stance on abortion with the fundamentals of her philosophy. (Read more...)
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