 The Magnate and the Moon
by G. Stolyarov II
A poem. (Read more...)
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 SOLOC 3 : Frequently Asked Questions
by Elizabeth Kanabe
Information on the conference. Everything you need to know to have a fantastic October. (Read more...)
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Right to Privacy - is it in the Constitution?
by Tibor R. Machan
One old criticism of a more libertarian interpretation of the US Constitution, one leveled at the court when it overturned a Connecticut law banning contraception and when it spoke of the right to privacy in Roe v. Wade, is that no right to privacy is mentioned in that famous legal document. And there certainly is none listed explicitly, not at least in the original version. (Read more...)
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"Under God": Why is TOC Pandering to Bigots?
by Adam Reed
For readers from countries other than United States of America, I shall start with a bit of our local anthropology. When an American child reaches the age of 4 or 5 or 6 - depending on where that child lives - his parents are compelled to send him to school. If the parents fail to do so, an armed officer of the law will show up at their doorstep and take their child, at gunpoint, to his assigned government school. (Read more...)
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 Wealth and Responsibility
by Russell Madden
Guilt Trips and Tax-Collectors' Wet Dreams (Read more...)
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 Martha Stewart
by Ashley Frazier
Martha Stewart is one of the great American success stories. (Read more...)
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Nelson Mandela: The world celebrates an African Hero
by Betty Kayton
As Nelson Mandela celebrates his 85th birthday, I am struck by the many faces of this political icon and champion of the African people. Elizabeth Kanabe (Read more...)
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 A Critique of Murray Rothbard's "Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult" (Part 3 of 3)
by G. Stolyarov II
"The 'Gold' of Rothbard's Analysis", "Randian Authoritarianism?", and "In Summation". (Read more...)
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A Critique of Murray Rothbard's "Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult" (Part 2 of 3)
by G. Stolyarov II
"What is Humor and What is Sacrilage" and "Revisionism and the Hatred of the Good". (Read more...)
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A Critique of Murray Rothbard's "Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult" (Part 1 of 3)
by G. Stolyarov II
Introduction and "The Reason-Passion Dichotomy" (Read more...)
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Death by Religion
by Joseph Rowlands
Recently I had a conversation with a Christian. She tried to make the claim that Christianity is more peaceful than Islam, based on what current affairs. In the Middle East, there's terrorism, dictatorships, suicide bombers, and holy wars. In the West, you have a bunch of people who go to church, sing songs, and have picnics. Who could argue with that? (Read more...)
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Film as Hazardous Propaganda
by Tibor R. Machan
As a regular viewer of Sundance films, mostly to satisfy my need for cultural anthropology lessons and because I do like some aspects of what they offer, I caught, just the other day, Jonathan Nossiter's "Signs & Wonders." The movie is about an American adulterer in Athens whose wife hooks up with a really angry, anti-American zealot. The zealot is, of course, depicted as a hero since he hates globalization, was a part of the Leftist resistance to the Greek dictatorship that the U.S. Government supported, and knows in his heart that he is absolutely right and expresses this in every move of his body. (Read more...)
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Bully Pulpit: Don't Ignore Me
by Kristin Currier
The new girl in town was out discovering the neighborhood beach. Tomorrow she was looking forward to the first day of grade 1. Learning was an exciting thing. There was nothing she liked better than drawing and reading. (Read more...)
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Extinguishing the Flame
by Russell Madden
Amazing what a difference two-and-a-quarter centuries makes. Amazing . . .
. . . and sad. (Read more...)
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A Campaign for Liberty: The Liberian Occupation
by G. Stolyarov II
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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Rational Individualism
by Joseph Rowlands
In Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, Howard Roark was a man who didn't care what other people thought. Well, actually he did in some ways. He cared about his friends, and he was concerned about why some people were secondhanders. But the fact that people thought things didn't matter to him in the sense that it wasn't a reason to believe or disbelieve that thing. An idea was either true or false, and he used his own mind to determine that. (Read more...)
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Why the Fuss about Gay Marriages?
by Tibor R. Machan
Canada is now recognizing gay marriages and many in America think it is scandalous that this country is lagging behind. What, Canada more free and tolerant than the USA? Surely that's shameful. (Read more...)
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 Why I Plan to Homeschool
by Betty Kayton
When I tell people that I intend home-schooling my children, should I have any one day, I am met with shock and horror. Even the most open-minded of my friends and colleagues are stunned that I could even consider such an option. (Read more...)
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Gun Control in America East
by Russell Madden
If the most recent incarnation of the war in Iraq has accomplished nothing else, the aftermath of that conflict has revealed fascinating insights into the mindset that dominates the agents of the American State. When I read articles and quotes and comments regarding what the United States is doing in Iraq in its role as that country's latest caretakers, I sometimes have to check to be certain that the stories are not detailing events in the Homeland. (Read more...)
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 The Way to First Base
by Elizabeth Kanabe
Imagine the following baseball game. The players in the field are lined up and ready as the first batter comes up to the plate. As the pitcher pitches the ball, the player takes a swing, misses, and runs to the first base not understanding why the others aren't continuing the play. He gets upset and refuses to return to bat. (Read more...)
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Socialism in Santa Fe
by Tibor R. Machan
Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a very well known and fashionable desert town and, like its equivalent in California, Santa Barbara, largely in the hands of a bunch of meddlesome lefties. (Read more...)
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The War on Words (Big Brother 2003)
by Marcus Bachler
George Orwell was born exactly 100 years ago today and his masterpiece novel "1984" continues to be an influential best-seller. The nightmare vision of the novel is a description of the ultimate in repressive state control. This story is as relevant to the state politics of today as it has ever been. (Read more...)
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 Basic Concepts in Painting and Sculpture Part 1
by Brett Holverstott
Composition – Spatial Depth – Sweeping Forms (Read more...)
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Good Night David Brinkley
by Tibor R. Machan
Many moons ago, when he was still with NBC-TV, I wrote to David Brinkley and we got into a brief correspondence about journalistic objectivity. He was against it. Well, actually, he just didn't think it could be achieved, however hard anyone might try. (Read more...)
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Strikes and Guns for the State
by Russell Madden
My wife and I recently returned from two-weeks in Paris. This visit was our first to the French capital. Before we crossed the Atlantic, we had somewhat anxiously read reports about government workers striking to protest proposed cuts in their pensions. (Read more...)
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