Venus was the most beautiful baby born, but she was cursed in two ways: First, no one knew who her father was, her mother deftly convincing
America didn’t win World War II solely on the backs of her men and women in uniform. Without the tireless efforts on the home front, there..
There are dozens of Black History Month “reading lists” which include many books you might expect, ranging from biographies of civil rights
Decades ago at 2:30 a.m. on a back street in La Jolla, I was arrested driving my mom’s ’68 Firebird 400 convertible. I had our tiny mutts
One could describe great literature as being like great architecture: all the elements pull together and buttress a central theme...
In 2011, the New York Times posed this question as a headline, “Can a novelist write philosophically?” drawing on the work...
We learned last week that tribe trumps truth when it comes to sexual harassment allegations against our political leaders. Partisans stick
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A young woman flees a communist country, works her way to the top of her field, meets the man of her dreams, and becomes a symbol of America
The Atlas Society (TAS) announces that David Kelley, PhD, its founder and Chief Intellectual Officer, will retire at the end of 2017. Two
In a letter written on March 19, 1944, Ayn Rand remarked: “Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism are only superficial variations of the s
I love civilization. It’s a hard concept to define exactly and one from which many thinkers flee.Parthenon To me it means an environment
The inclusion of Branden’s lecture and question-answer session in this collection gives him a voice in his own commemoration. Published....
I never met Ayn Rand. I never saw her in person. I never corresponded with her. Yet this woman was to exert a profound influence on my life.
Maybe it was the cover of Atlas Shrugged that caught the attention of the weight-lifting community. Artist Nick Gaetano’s iconic cover art
The Amazons, the ancients tell us, were a violent bunch. “The Scythians call (them) Oiorpata, or as it may be interpreted, men-slayers
It is rare in our contemporary postmodern culture that its representatives get a smack down. But that is what happened with the Tyler Shield
The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn
She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To hell with that
For Ayn Rand, an argument was the distinctive human banner, the banner of reason and persuasion. Where brutes force, human beings argue, a
