 Meanings of Christmas Revisited
by Tibor R. Machan
Sometimes one ought to repeat a point, even over and over again, since it is important enough to call attention to it often. Given that many people, celebrities with lots of exposure in the media, manage to repeat idiotic points, I have resolved to refute them repeatedly. (Read more...)
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All Blacked Out
by Ross Elliot
As we all know, rugby is a significant Sense of Life issue. If you don't know this, go to the back of the class, be quiet and pay attention. (Read more...)
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 Fostering Global Francophobia
by Sam Pierson
Address delivered at SOLO Conference #2, Auckland, February 16, 2003 (Read more...)
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Thanks for the Technology!
by Tibor R. Machan
In 1972 I bought a Volvo P1800 off the Chevy used car lot in Santa Barbara, California. I owned that car for 20 years and am still sad to have had to sell it in 1992, after putting 250,000 miles on it and driving it back and forth over the USA nearly 17 times. (Read more...)
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Aviation: The Conquest of the Skies by the Mind
by Scott Wilson
Few things are more inspirational to me than aviation - it is one of the greatest conquests of man's mind over his environment, it is the destruction of the limitations of man's anatomy in one dimension. (Read more...)
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An Objectivist Tale of Two Lovers
by Paul M. Kay
A tale of attitudes regarding sex. (Read more...)
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Basketball Diary: The Will To Win!
by Kristin Currier
It was game 5 out of the best of seven, and if the Dallas Mavericks lost this one, they'd be out of the series for good. (Read more...)
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A Timeless Tale
by Lindsay Perigo
Today a tale of two men, vastly different in nature & stature, separated by two hundred years, but both to their own selves true. (Read more...)
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Titanic Trio
by Lindsay Perigo
One memorable night, not so long ago, I imbibed some high-octane emotional fuel, sitting down with like-minded people to watch television documentaries on three giants, each a genius in his own field - author/philosopher Ayn Rand, singer Mario Lanza & architect Frank Lloyd Wright. (Read more...)
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Twelve Worthy Cylinders
by Sam Pierson
No self-respecting person builds statues unto themselves. (Read more...)
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"I Didn't Know"
by Christy Little
I was 6 years old when I began a dangerous family joke at the dinner table. (Read more...)
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A Beautiful Woman as Spiritual Fuel
by Paul M. Kay
Another source of spiritual fuel and emotional nourishment: the sight of a beautiful woman. (Read more...)
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I, Muggle
by Craig Ceely
The Muggles are all around us. What about the wizards and demons? (Read more...)
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Thursday
November 14, 2002 |
Objectivist Comstockery? Ms. Rand or Mrs. Grundy
by Anthony Teets
Can one be an Objectivist and a prude? Should one? (Read more...)
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Wednesday
November 13, 2002 |
Reality: Our Objective, Benevolent Friend
by Glenn Lamont
How many times have you said "Life is unfair?" Glenn Lamont has a few words for you... (Read more...)
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Smith, Marx, Nock: The Hyper-Focus on Economics
by Kyrel Zantonavitch
How have Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Albert J. Nock helped bring us where we are today? (Read more...)
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Longing for The Good Old Days
by Francois Tremblay
Who needs modern communications? By not reading the news every day, men have more time to chop wood and fill the holes in the roof with mud. (Read more...)
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The Purpose of the Rainbow
by Craig Ceely
The rainbow was there, pretty and pleasing in the early evening sky. The Golden Arches thrust themselves rudely into that same sky. And there was all the difference... (Read more...)
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Perigo's Law
by Lindsay Perigo
Now, it's one thing for advocates of mystic, collectivist and other irrational ideas to fight among themselves--but what are we to make of the fact that avowed apostles of reason and individualism seem to be just as quarrelsome? (Read more...)
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The Importance of Being
by Ross Elliot
The two million acres of New Zealand's McKenzie Country is a harsh yet glorious environment within which modern man has tested himself for 150 years... (Read more...)
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Politically Incorrect Editorial, Mon Sept 23
by Lindsay Perigo
The object lesson that Germany & New Zealand both currently provide is this: as long as capitalism-& a mongrelised mixed-economy version of it at that-is promoted on collectivist grounds, it is doomed to win battles but lose the war. (Read more...)
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Thursday
September 5, 2002 |
Why SOLO?
by Lindsay Perigo
Linday Perigo's description of SOLO, given at the inaugural SOLO conference in NZ. (Read more...)
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Theft? You be the Judge.
by Malcolm MacKenzie
In 1966 I was posted to Sharjah in the Trucial States of Oman. I was in the Royal Air Force at the time and this was where 'someone in authority' had decided to send me. I was posted to a vast expanse of sand in the middle of nowhere. I didn't deserve it! (Read more...)
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Weaving the World's Dreams
by Matthew Graybosch
The world needs a hero. Not a hero to save the world from itself, but one who can inspire man to rise up, take responsibility for his fate, and create his own salvation. (Read more...)
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A Friend... To Values
by Arthur Silber
Certain stories, almost mythic in nature, connect to our deepest values. For this reason, our response to them reveals our sense of life in a manner that most other events do not. I know that many people who identify themselves as Objectivists, to one degree or another, may not understand why I view the following story -- a true one -- as inspiring, and profoundly moving. (Read more...)
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