| Type | Title | Author | Date |
| Op-ed | The Productive Meaning of Thanksgiving | Edward Hudgins | 11/23/2005 |
| Description: Hudgins argues that the happy meaning of Thanksgiving and the season it inaugurates is found in the bounty that we produce and our ability to produce it. |
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| Article | Multiculturalism and its Discontents | Bruce Thornton | 11/8/2005 |
| Description: Bruce Thornton explains how multiculturalism is a the root of the London bombings. And now France is suffering the same fate for the same reasons. |
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| Article | The Means and Ends of Islamists | Edward Hudgins | 11/8/2005 |
| Description: The riots in Paris point to the true ends of Islamists. In this piece, published after the London bombings, Edward Hudgins shows that their violent means reflect their culture of death and the silence of their more peaceful co-religionists is moral abdication. |
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| FrontReport | Scared of Halloween | Edward Hudgins | 10/31/2005 |
| Description: The politicalization of Halloween |
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| FrontReport | Eating Our
Independence for Breakfast | Edward Hudgins | 10/13/2005 |
| Description: The small erosions of freedom that result from paternalism |
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| Op-ed | Columbus Day: In Praise of Exploitation | Edward Hudgins | 10/10/2005 |
| Description: Columbus opened a whole new land for those who would tame nature and build a new, free and prosperous nation. We should celebrate the opportunity for America that he gave us—not apologize for it. |
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| FrontReport | The Edukators | Edward Hudgins | 9/8/2005 |
| Description: The latest leftist export-European, the film ''The Edukators,'' is about radicals who guilt-trip the rich by breaking into their homes, rearranging the furniture and leaving notes like ''You have too much money.'' This flick shows the ocean-wide moral gap that separates America from the Old World. |
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| Op-ed | Fascism in a Lei | Edward Hudgins | 9/6/2005 |
| Description: A bill before Congress would accelerate the politics of racial, ethnic and cultural
division in Hawaii and the rest of the United States. |
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| Article | The Next Chief Justice | David Mayer | 9/6/2005 |
| Description: With the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist the Senate and the country will debate whether John Roberts, President Bush’s nominee to take over the top Supreme Court job, is qualified for the position. In his article ''The Next Chief Justice,'' written before Rehnquist’s passing, David N. Mayer, a Constitutional scholar and Professor of Law and History at Capital University, sets out the criteria by which this justice should be judged. |
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| FrontReport | A Cool American Capitalist | Edward Hudgins | 8/24/2005 |
| Description: Air-conditioning and human achievement. |
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| FrontReport | Apollo 11 on Human Achievement Day | Edward Hudgins | 7/20/2005 |
| Description: The glory of human achievement. |
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| FrontReport | The London Massacre | Edward Hudgins | 7/7/2005 |
| Description: Atrocities like the London bombings, and the ideologies that support them, must be loudly and publicly denounced. |
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| FrontReport | Mad Hot Ballroom | David Kelley | 7/5/2005 |
| Description: A review of the film Mad Hot Ballroom. |
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| FrontReport | One Giant Leap Toward Fascist America | Edward Hudgins | 6/23/2005 |
| Description: In Kelo vs. New London, The US Supreme Court has delevered a mortal blow to property rights. |
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| FrontReport | Degraded Discussion of Gitmo | Edward Hudgins | 6/17/2005 |
| Description: Comparing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay to a Stalinist Gulag or a Nazi death-camp is not only incorrect; it's dishonest and disgusting. |
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| Center News | Bidinotto Rejoins TOC | | 6/10/2005 |
| Description: Robert Bidinotto rejoins the staff of The Objectivist Center. |
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| FrontReport | Flushing the Koran or Reason Down the Toilet? | Edward Hudgins | 6/8/2005 |
| Description: The lesson of the Koran abuse story is that those who reject reason must reject freedom; those who embrace irrationality must embrace intolerance and force because they have closed off all rational appeals. And that is why peaceful and free regimes -- whether in Middle East countries or America -- must be based on a culture and philosophy of reason, not mysticism. |
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| FrontReport | Star Wars: Are the Sith Selfish? | Edward Hudgins | 5/25/2005 |
| Description: A review of Revenge of the Sith. |
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| FrontReport | Anti-Human Earth Day | Edward Hudgins | 4/22/2005 |
| Description: Earth Day marks the worship by eco-extremists of the planet itself at the expense of all we humans who inhabitant it. |
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| FrontReport | Robin Hood and the Robber Congress | Edward Hudgins | 4/18/2005 |
| Description: The Estate Tax and the morality of the producer. |
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| Op-ed | Tax Wars | Edward Hudgins | 4/14/2005 |
| Description: As we rush to meet the April 15 deadline to file our tax returns, many fail to realize those 1040 forms do more than just make us all personally poorer. The tax code is a principal instrument that creates and sustains the politicized, partisan, uncivil, contentious conflict society so many bemoan. |
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| FrontReport | The Real Resource | Edward Hudgins | 4/1/2005 |
| Description: There is no such thing as a "natural resource," and we need not fear using them up. The human mind is the ultimate resource and our only fear should be of restrictions on our freedom to use them. |
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| Article | Eliot Spitzer: Ayatollah General | Roger Donway | 4/1/2005 |
| Description: Since becoming the attorney general of New York, Eliot Spitzer has conducted an aggressive campaign against the financial industry, restructuring the business landscape in accordance with his moral vision, as though he were a religious dictator suddenly transplanted from the Middle East. |
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| Article | In This Issue April/May | Edward Hudgins | 4/1/2005 |
| Description: From the Editor. |
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| Article | Sovietizing America: How Sustainable Development Crushes the Individual | Edward Hudgins | 4/1/2005 |
| Description: Michael Shaw and Edward Hudgins
An unrecognized threat to the liberty and prosperity of each American has spread throughout the country, taking root in every state and county. Its current and most serious manifestation was fashioned by an international organization with the explicit goal of replacing the autonomy of individuals over their own land with a collectivist control system that ultimately destroys the natural rights of each citizen. |
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| Miscellaneous | April/May 2005 Soundings | | 4/1/2005 |
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| Center News | We've Moved | | 4/1/2005 |
| Description: The Center has moved to Washington, D.C.. |
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| Center News | Eugene Holloway Joins the Center | | 4/1/2005 |
| Description: Eugene Holloway Joins the Center as director of operations. |
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| Center News | Hudgins Gets the Word Out | | 4/1/2005 |
| Description: Edward Hudgins is busy speaking about freedom and individualsim. |
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| Center News | Kelley Lectures at the University of Arizona | | 4/1/2005 |
| Description: TOC Founder, David Kelley Lectures at the University of Arizona. |
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| Center News | Sighitngs, April/May 2005 | | 4/1/2005 |
| Description: Neil DeRosa writes about Science, Robert Bidinotto speaks in Montana |
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| Article | The Ideas That Promote Terrorism | David Kelley | 4/1/2005 |
| Description: In an address to the March against Terror in Washington, D.C., David Kelley appealed to all who stand for happiness, freedom, progress, and reason to join in opposing those who want to control the mind, roll back progress, stifle freedom--and who are willing to kill and maim to do so. |
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| FrontReport | Deep Savages | Edward Hudgins | 3/18/2005 |
| Description: Cultures of oppression must be exposed for what they are. |
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| FAQ | FAQ Love and Sex | Andrew Bissell | 3/9/2005 |
| Description: Romantic love is a profoundly selfish act: it is based in one’s own values and should be undertaken for the sake of one’s own happiness. Objectivism holds that we love another person most profoundly when we love him or her as a whole person, one who is physical and spiritual, sexual and rational. And we experience our greatest sense of self and one of the fullest pleasures in life when we are loved in this complete and integrated way. |
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| Article | In This Issue | Edward Hudgins | 3/1/2005 |
| Description: Editor's Desk |
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| Article | The Hidden Danger of Social Security Privatization | Frank Bubb | 3/1/2005 |
| Description: Most current proposals for reforming Social Security provide that investment choices would be limited to diversified funds that invest in a broad range of stocks, bonds, or both. Could such personal retirement accounts become a vehicle for imposing more government control over business? |
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| Article | Social Security, Autonomy, and Independence | Edward Hudgins | 3/1/2005 |
| Description: The debate over reforming Social Security reflects a deeper battle for the soul of the Republic. It pits those who would take the first steps in restoring the morality needed to sustain a free society against those who have undermined that ethos. |
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| Center News | Ayn on the Air | | 3/1/2005 |
| Description: Radio and newspaper appearances for the Center |
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| Center News | The Center at CPAC and the Presidential Classroom | | 3/1/2005 |
| Description: The Center mkaes an appearance at CPAC and the in the Presidential Classroom |
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| Center News | New York City Centenary Bash | | 3/1/2005 |
| Description: The New York City Centenary Bash. |
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| Center News | Rand Centenary in D.C. | | 3/1/2005 |
| Description: TOC holds a celebration of the Ayn Rand Centenary in D.C. |
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| Miscellaneous | March 2005 Soundings | | 3/1/2005 |
| Description: Social Security |
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| Article | The History, Economics, and Philosophy of Social Security | David Kelley | 3/1/2005 |
| Description: The problem with Social Security is the blithe indifference to economic reality, on the assumption that "we're all in this together." And the problem with that appeal to solidarity as a moral premise is that it encourages such indifference. |
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| Article | You Can't Handle the Truth! | Frederick Cookinham | 3/1/2005 |
| Description: Objectivists have defended honesty on the basis of self-interest. Films provide an excellent context for testing this original concept of honesty, because they engage us emotionally and prompt us to take ideas more seriously. |
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| Article | NASD Punishes Quattrone for Asserting His Rights | Roger Donway | 3/1/2005 |
| Description: Kenneth G. Hausman, a lawyer for former investment banker Frank Quattrone, describes the outrageous behavior of the National Association of Securities Dealers in permanently banning Quattrone from the industry-and the basis of his appeal to the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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| Op-ed | Ayn Rand at 100: The Moral Defense of Freedom | Edward Hudgins | 1/31/2005 |
| Description: A celebration of Ayn Rand on the centennial of her birth. |
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| FrontReport | Scorsese's Aviator Reflects Randian Lessons | Edward Hudgins | 1/17/2005 |
| Description: In The Aviator, a bio-pic about Howard Hughes (1905-1976), director Martin Scorsese projects on the screen a moral message that is rarely found in philosophy books much less in movies: the path to joy in life is loving one's work. |
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| Article | Generosity and Self-Interest | David Kelley | 1/7/2005 |
| Description: People give directions to strangers, contribute to charities, volunteer in hospitals, and send food and supplies to earthquake victims. Why? |
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| Article | More on Law and Punishment | William Perry | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: A recent Supreme Court decision has given a bizarre twist to the state of sentencing law. |
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| Article | The Need for a New Individualism | Edward Hudgins | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: The political and economic manifestations of individualism—freedom and capitalism—cannot stand on their own; they require sound moral ideas of rational self-interest.
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| Article | Quattrone Appeals His Conviction | Roger Donway | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: Frank P. Quattrone is appealing his conviction for obstruction of justice, and his arguments are being supported by several associations of lawyers. |
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| Center News | Graduate Scholarships Available | | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: Graduate Scholarships Available |
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| Center News | Sightings, January/February 2005 | | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: Ed Snider is recognized by the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. |
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| Center News | Tellin Leaves Bequest to the Center | | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: Tellin Leaves Bequest to the Center |
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| Review | The Normality of Freedom | Timothy Sandefur | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: Randy Barnett offers a systematic defense of a libertarian interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. |
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| Center News | Why Support Graduate Students? | | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: Why Support Graduate Students? |
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| Center News | Fighting for Doctors' Freedom | | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: Edward Hudgins, incoming executive director of The Objectivist Center, was recently on the front lines of the battle of productive individuals versus wealth appropriators. |
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| Center News | 2005 Advanced Seminar and Graduate Seminar | | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: Announcement about the 2005 Advanced Seminar |
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| Center News | Summer Seminar Will Have Exciting Program | William Thomas | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: The 2005 Summer Seminar! |
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| Miscellaneous | January/February, 2005 Soundings | | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: A selection of Ayn Rand tributes. |
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| Article | What Is So Wrong about Being Wrong? | Charles Tomlinson | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: Being wrong is a human condition, not a cosmic judgment. |
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| Article | OPS: Other People's Stuff* | Charles Tomlinson | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: Everything in our world is covered with a thick, gooey atmosphere of Other People’s Stuff.
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| Article | Charles Tomlinson Led a Wonderful Life | William Perry | 1/1/2005 |
| Description: Charles Tomlinson, a long-time supporter of The Objectivist Center, died on December 28, 2004, after living an excellent life.
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| Center News | Charles Tomlinson Dies | | 12/29/2004 |
| Description: Charles Tomlinson died Tuesday, December 28, 2004. Charles was a long-time supporter of The Objectivist Center. |
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| FrontReport | Goodwill Toward Men | Edward Hudgins | 12/17/2004 |
| Description: Christmas season is a time of goodwill toward men. But what does this sentiment really mean? |
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| Article | Epistemology and Politics: Ayn Rand's Cultural Commentary | David Kelley | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: The events Rand wrote about are long past, the people long gone. Many of the issues and trends have disappeared off the rader screen. But her essays remain relevant today and her comments have staying power because she brought a philosophical perspective to bear. |
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| Center News | Center Loses a Great Friend | | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: Charles Tomlinson -- In Memoriam |
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| Article | Ayn Rand at 100 | Edward Hudgins | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: How do the most productive individuals, those who are responsible for a society’s prosperity, find themselves abused by politicians and dishonest businessmen and women? Ayn Rand sees the key in morality, and she coined the phrase that best describes the root of the problem: the sanction of the victim. |
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| Center News | The Objectivist Center to Move to DC | | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center to Move to DC -- Edward Hudgins to be Executive Director. |
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| Center News | Center Holds First Teleseminar | | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: A recap of the Center's first teleseminar. |
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| Article | Freedom, Achievement, Individualism, Reason | William Thomas | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: The most essential aspects of Objectivism can be expressed in four basic values. To understand Objectivism as a system, one needs to grasp what these values are and how they fit together. |
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| Article | The Fountainhead Sings | Chris Matthew Sciabarra | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: Max Steiner—a student of Johannes Brahms and Gustav Mahler—wrote the film score for The Fountainhead. A new CD and a deluxe booklet celebrate his achievement. |
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| Miscellaneous | If | | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: When planning her funeral, Rand said that she wanted no eulogies, just a reading of her favorite poem, "If," by Rudyard Kipling. David Kelley, later the founder of The Objectivist Center, gave that reading, and we present the poem here as the memorial Ayn Rand thought most fitting. |
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| Miscellaneous | December, 2004 Soundings | | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: Ayn Rand and Olympic Swimming, Sears and Kmart, Christmas, Cigarettes, Howard Hughes, The Apprentice, and in Prison. Also: Michael Chrichton's State of Fear. |
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| Article | Honoring Ayn Rand | | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: Sixteen individuals—from the world of politics to the world of the academy, from the corporation to the think thank—pay homage to the philosopher and novelist on the one-hundredth anniversary of her birth. |
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| Center News | Board of Trustees Changes | | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: Board of Trustees Changes |
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| Center News | New York Fall Conference Succeeds | | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: A recap of the Center's Fall conference. |
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| Center News | Rand the Writer Celebrated in New Book | | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: TOC publishes The Literary Art of Ayn Rand. |
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| FrontReport | The Incredibles | David Kelley | 11/22/2004 |
| Description: The Incredibles: David Kelley reviews the movie, the many references to Ayn Rand that have been made by reviewers, and the culture of egalitarianism. |
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| FrontReport | Whom Should We Thank | Roger Donway | 11/22/2004 |
| Description: Whom should we thank on Thanksgiving? All of those who, down through the centuries, have advanced civilization by means of their productive achievements. For it is they who allow us to live in the luxuriant world of the twenty-first century. |
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| FrontReport | Defining the Election | Edward Hudgins | 11/4/2004 |
| Description: Moral values, individualism, and the 2004 election. |
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| Article | Demonize, Then Pulverize | Sam Kazman | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: Ten years ago, a new type of lawsuit was filed against the tobacco industry. It began by making the industry into a national pariah and then demanding huge payments in compensation for the expenses it had supposedly thrust upon the U.S. states. That pattern is quickly becoming the model for many other lawsuits |
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| Article | The States of Freedom | Roger Donway | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: Last month, Navigator reported on freedom around the world. Now, two reports have surfaced evaluating the economic freedom of U.S. states. Unsuprisingly, their different methodologies produce different winners and losers. |
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| Miscellaneous | November, 2004 Soundings | | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: Educational atrocities, the cost of government regulation, Mexican immigration, environmentalism, health-care cost incentives. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Government and Business | | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: The Rule of Lawyers, Property Matters, Government Failure, Just Get Out of the Way. |
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| Center News | Debating the Ideas Behind the War on Iraq and Terrorism | | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: Synopsis of the October 22, 2004 conference: "Lessons from the Iraq War: Reconciling Liberty and Security." |
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| Center News | Objectivist Group Visits Scotland | | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: The traveling Objectivists took their annual trip in October, touring Scotland. Twenty-five Objectivists visited castles, lochs (lakes, in American parlance), universities, shops, and other tourist attractions. |
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| Center News | Free State Objectivists Meet in New Hampshire | | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: Free State Objectivists Meet in New Hampshire |
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| Center News | Hudgins Tells Postal Service Privatize! | | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: Edward Hudgins spoke on October 21 at a conference held by the inspector general of the U.S. Postal Service. |
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| Center News | Sightings, November 2004 | | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: Private Property, Harry Potter, and David Kelley in Bulgarian |
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| Letters | Letters: Animal Rights, Frank Quattrone | | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: Animal rights; the case for Frank Quattrone. |
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| FrontReport | Killing the Dead Draft | Edward Hudgins | 10/27/2004 |
| Description: Domcratic demagogy, draft fears, and national service. |
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| FrontReport | Government Medicine's Prejudice Against Innovation | Edward Hudgins | 10/20/2004 |
| Description: Government intervention in medicine costs lives. |
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| Op-ed | Medicine Could Reach For Stars, FDA Willing | Edward Hudgins | 10/6/2004 |
| Description: Lessons from technology and space travel can be applied to the FDA. In each case, privatization may be the answer. |
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| Op-ed | Signals from SpaceShipOne | Edward Hudgins | 10/5/2004 |
| Description: Burt Rutan and SpaceShipOne make history with private space flight and win the Ansari X Prize. |
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| Op-ed | How Price Gouging Laws Make Hurricanes Worse | Frank Bubb | 10/4/2004 |
| Description: Laws against price gouging are supposed to help the victims of hurricanes. In fact, they make shortages worse and encourage individuals to evade the need for them to take precautions, expecting that governments will help them in their time of need. Such laws should be repealed! |
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| Article | The Benefits of Price Gouging | Frank Bubb | 10/1/2004 |
| Description: To understand why price-gouging laws contribute to the shortages that follow natural disasters, one must understand that prices are a means of conveying information about a continually changing reality. |
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| Miscellaneous | October, 2004 Soundings | | 10/1/2004 |
| Description: Aid to North Korea, John McWhorter and barbarism, Working hard in America |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Liberty | | 10/1/2004 |
| Description: The Rule of Law in the Wake of Clinton, You Can't Say that, Cato Supreme Court Review, Restoring the Lost Constitution |
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| Center News | Center Hosts First Graduate Seminar | | 10/1/2004 |
| Description: Center Hosts First Graduate Seminar |
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| Center News | Sightings, October 2004 | | 10/1/2004 |
| Description: Bidinotto Watch, Ideas in Iraq, Contribution reminder, Postmodernism book published, Camp Indecon update |
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| Center News | At the Center | | 10/1/2004 |
| Description: Staff News |
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| Center News | Hudgins Communicates Ethics | | 10/1/2004 |
| Description: Ed Hudgins speaks at Atlas Economic Conference |
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| Article | Law and Punishment | William Perry | 10/1/2004 |
| Description: Frank O. Bowman of Indiana University has said: ‘There has not been a single case in the history of American criminal law with the immediate impact of this one.’ What case is he talking about, and why is it so important? |
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| Article | The Freedom Olympics | Roger Donway | 10/1/2004 |
| Description: Americans typically measure their freedom by looking backward or forward--backward to the early republic or forward to their ideal republic. But another useful gauge can be obtained by looking outward--to the world's other republics, and to its non-republics as well. That is, we may wish to know, in the spirit of international sports competitions: How well does America do in its pursuit of freedom, when compared with other countries? |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Private Space Triumph | Edward Hudgins | 9/30/2004 |
| Description: Private entrepreneurs triumph! Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites complete their first space launch in pursuit of the X prize. |
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| Center News | David Kelley translated into Bulgarian | | 9/28/2004 |
| Description: Dr. Kelley is translated into Bulgarian. |
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| Op-ed | Obstruction of Freedom | Edward Hudgins | 9/10/2004 |
| Description: Visionary banker Frank Quattrone has been sentenced to eighteen months in prison, allegedly for obstruction of justice, even though the government never indicted him for any crime whose prosecution he might have been obstructing. This case and Martha Stewart's open the floodgates for government assaults on those who have done nothing but arouse the fury of muckrakers and the envy of egalitarians. Americans should understand that a government powerful enough to quash a Frank Quattrone on such a bogus charge can crush any of us. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Two George Bushes | Edward Hudgins | 9/3/2004 |
| Description: While John Kerry might flip-flop on the same issue, President Bush sounds like Ronald Reagan on some issues and like Teddy Kennedy on others. Only when advocates of freedom advocate consistent policies based on consistent premises will we have a chance to expand the sphere of individual liberty. |
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| Article | Poetry of Freedom | John Enright | 9/1/2004 |
| Description: John Enright discusses some of his favorite poems. Included are selections from Byron, Milton, Dryden and others. |
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| Letters | Letters: Don Giovanni, Lost in Translation | | 9/1/2004 |
| Description: Letters about Don Giovanni, Lost in Translation, and Rockefeller. |
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| Article | Free Verse | Roger Donway | 9/1/2004 |
| Description: A selection of poetry recomendations--alll about freedom--from Roger Donway. |
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| Cultural Calendar | The Doctor as Lockean | Roger Donway | 9/1/2004 |
| Description: Thomas Sydenham, follower of Francis Bacon's methodology and close friend of John Locke, brought an intense empiricism to seventeenth-century medicine. As a result, the age of the Enlightenment dubbed him "the English Hippocrates." |
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| Miscellaneous | September, 2004 Soundings | | 9/1/2004 |
| Description: Aristrocrats of Production, Technology Awards and honors, and a survey on 'Trusting Business.' |
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| Center News | Sightings, September 2004 | | 9/1/2004 |
| Description: Christopher Robinson receives his Ph.D. in cognitive science. |
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| Center News | Hudgins Debates a Subjectivist | | 9/1/2004 |
| Description: Edward Hudgins debates a subjectivist at The Institute for Humane Studies. |
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| Center News | Andrew Bissell Interns at the Center | | 9/1/2004 |
| Description: An interview with Andrew Bissell, the Center's 2004 summer intern. |
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| Center News | A Great Week in Vancouver | | 9/1/2004 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center held its Fifteenth Annual Summer Seminar in Vancouver, British Columbia, July 3rd -10th. The event featured a stellar program, the yearly gathering of Objectivists, and an abundance of events. Throughout the week, participants enjoyed the beauty of the area, intellectual stimulation, and the company of like-minded individualists. |
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| Article | Why Art Became Ugly | Stephen Hicks | 9/1/2004 |
| Description: Stephen Hicks shows that approximately a hundred years ago artists started down a road that has led them step by step to today's aesthetic dead-end. Hicks outlines the postmodern philosophy that underlies modern art, reviews famous pieces, and ends with a call for a new aesthetic that will be attuned to the realities of the twenty-first century. |
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| Op-ed | Big Tobacco's Suicidal Detente | Andrew Bissell | 8/12/2004 |
| Description: Tobacco company Philip Morris is supporting a Congressional plan that would place on it even more regulations. But as Andrew Bissell argues in this op-ed, for too long tobacco companies have tried to make deals with anti-smoking zealots who want to shut them down, only to find such deals don't purchase peace but simply invite more attacks. Whether one is a smoker or not, one must recognize that consumer freedom is in danger when government can snuff out industries and products of which they disapprove. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Atlas Chased | Edward Hudgins | 8/6/2004 |
| Description: The United Nations' plan for global taxation is an attempt to chase productive individuals seeking to evade looting governments anywhere they go. America should stand strong against this contemptible policy. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Kerry's Collectivism | Edward Hudgins | 7/30/2004 |
| Description: The Democratic presidential nominee is true to form in his opposition to individualism. |
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| Article | Starting and Sustaining An Objectivist Discussion Group | Jackie Hazelton | 7/30/2004 |
| Description: This talk describes how we did set up a new a group, how we have kept the group alive for four and a half years, and what I've learned from the many Objectivist groups in which I have been involved. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Obese Medicare and Fatheaded Politicians | Edward Hudgins | 7/18/2004 |
| Description: The goverment's war on obesity is a war on individual liberty. The greatest danger to the country is from obese government. |
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| Op-ed | Celebrating Apollo 11's Sense of Life | Edward Hudgins | 7/18/2004 |
| Description: July 20 marks the 35th anniversary of the first Moon landing. That achievement is a wonderful manifestation of America's optimistic sense of life, our understanding that if we put our minds and wills to a task, we can do almost anything. But that day also reminds us that in the long run, private entrepreneurs, not government agencies, make goods and services available for everyone. So let's take time to reflect on the great achievements of the past and to recognize that America's optimistic sense of life means that our greatest achievements will be yet to come! |
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| Article | The Case for Frank Quattrone | Roger Donway | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Frank Quattrone, the star investment banker of the dot-com era, was convicted in May 2004 on two counts of obstructing justice and one count of witness tampering. He is scheduled to be sentenced on September 8, and faces up to twenty years in prison. What was the exact nature of Quattrone’s alleged crime? And how strong was the evidence against him? |
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| Center News | Sightings July/August 2004 | | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Dr. Brian Simpson will present courses in economics based on the works of Ayn Rand and George Reisman. |
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| Center News | Explaining Postmodernism published! | | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Stephen Hicks’s book Explaining Postmodernism, written while a senior fellow at The Objectivist Center, has been published by Scholargy. The book traces postmodernism from its roots in Rousseau and Kant through its current adherents, such as Foucault and Rorty. |
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| Center News | Bringing Western Values to Capitol Hill | | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center took the discussion about the basis of a free society where it is needed most: Capitol Hill. A star-studded lineup, including Christopher Hitchens and TOC executive director David Kelley, discussed “What Are Western Values and Should We Return to Them?” |
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| Center News | About Fundraising Letters | | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Why do you get letters from TOC asking for money? |
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| Article | In Defense of Cowboy Capitalism | Roger Donway | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Pro-capitalists need to offer a defense of big-business executives that is not undercut by libertinism, postmodern moral skepticism, religious morality, or utopian illusions. |
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| Review | Hard America, Soft America: A New 'House Divided' | Frank Bubb | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Hard America consists of “the parts of American life subject to competition and accountability”; “Soft America” consists of “the parts of our country where there is little competition and accountability.” That is the intriguing disjunction that informs Michael Barone’s new book, Hard America, Soft America, employs to analyze the history of the United States during the last century. |
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| Article | Rockefeller and the Muckrakers | Roger Donway | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Throughout his long life of ninety-eight years, John D. Rockefeller Sr. heard the same lies told about him year after year, decade after decade, and generation after generation. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Capitalists | | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Suggested Readings: Capitalists, Rockefeller, Gates, etc... |
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| Miscellaneous | July/August Soundings | | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Bill Clinton, John Kerry and Tax Hikes; Rural Property Rights; Whom do Americans Trust? |
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| Center News | TOC Gives First Graduate Scholarships | | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center awards graduate scholarships to Walter Foddis and Shawn Klein. |
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| Center News | Correction for March Issue | | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Correction to March Issue |
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| Op-ed | What Unites America? Unity in Individualism! | Edward Hudgins | 6/30/2004 |
| Description: On July 4th we celebrate the creation of the United States of America. But today Americans seem more divided than at any time in recent memory. In the Declaration of Independence we can rediscover the source of unity and freedom—the creed of individualism that defines this country. |
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| Op-ed | The Iliad and Islam | Edward Hudgins | 6/24/2004 |
| Description: ''The Iliad,'' Homer's epic about the Trojan War, made a great story whether recited in ancient palaces or made into Hollywood blockbusters. But the violent rage of Greek warriors and their obsession with the gods mirror the brutal and primitive aspects of Islamic culture today. The solution offered by later Greek philosophers in the classical era—a secular philosophy of reason and disciplining emotions—could bring enlightenment to a backwards part of the world today.
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| Center News | TOC Graduate Scholarship Awards | | 6/17/2004 |
| Description: Announcement of the first annual graduate students awards. |
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| Events | TOC Fall Conference | | 6/15/2004 |
| Description: Save the date! The Objectivist Center will hold its Fall Conference in New
York City on October 30th, 2004. This one-day event will be held at the
American Management Association at 48th st. and Broadway in Manhattan. |
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| Center News | Reagan's Legacy, 1911-2004 | | 6/6/2004 |
| Description: Reagan's Legacy: Optimism, Confidence in
Individuals. |
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| Letters | Letters: Art, Movies, Death (June, 2004) | | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: Art, artists, viewers, and value; The Virtues of Lost in Translation; Euthanasia |
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| Article | The Problem of Animal Rights | Shawn Klein | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: Americans overwhelmingly support some degree of legal protection for animals, and a quarter of those polled say that animals should have the same rights as humans. What arguments have philosophers made in favor of such legislation and how well do those arguments hold up? Could a philosophy of law that started from a valid of theory of rights justify extending some protection to animals? |
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| Review | What Does Science Say about the Mind? | Robert Campbell | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: Owen Flanagan, author of The Problem of the Soul, has his heart in the right place. He wants to reject the religious view of the mind as an immaterial substance. But the scientific view, Flanagan insists, is a physicalist view and every experience is just a physical event. Despite that, Flanagan says that he believes mental processes are real. What does that mean for a physicalist? And what does it mean for free will? |
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| Miscellaneous | June Soundings | | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: Trashing petty regulations; Media refuse subpoenas; Postmodern prostitution in art; Voting on the truth of the Bible. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Enlightenment Thought and Action | | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: The Creation of the Modern World:
The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment By Roy Porter; Locke in America: The Moral Philosophy of the Founding Era By Jerome Huyler; The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World By Jenny Uglow; Self-Help By Samuel Smiles
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| Article | The Arizona Objectivists Achieve Success | | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: The Arizona Objectivists: a case study of a successful discussion group. |
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| Center News | Objectivism from the Source | | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center will hold a distance learning course from September 15 through December 1, 2004; learn about Objectivism from your home! |
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| Center News | Objectivism around the World | | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: Objectivism and Ayn Rand in India, Italy, Mexico and Turkey! |
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| Center News | Martin Anderson meets Ed Hudgins | | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: Martin Anderson, former advisor to President Reagan, meets with Ed Hudgins. |
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| Miscellaneous | Sightings, June 2004 | | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: Ayn Rand, Homosexuality, and Human Liberation is published; Center Member tours with Disney; Journal of Ayn Rand Studies issues call for papers. |
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| Article | John Rennie: Enlightenment Engineer | Roger Donway | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: London Bridge—as every child used to know—was falling down. John Rennie was the man brought in to replace it. |
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| Events | What Are Western Values And Should We Return to Them? | | 5/19/2004 |
| Description: An Objectivist Center Policy Forum on June 3, 2004 in Washington, D.C. featuring David Kelley, Ed Hudgins, and speakers from conservative, old left, and new left points of view: Lee Edwards of The Heritage Foundation; Marcus Raskin of the Institute for Policy Studies; Christopher Hitchens, author; and Berry Latzner of American Council of Trustees and Alumni.
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Cannes' Cultural Corruption | Edward Hudgins | 5/19/2004 |
| Description: The applause from a crowd of rich elites at the Cannes film festival for a movie bashing the rich is radical chic at its worse, and illustrating the need to reject an altruistic ethics. |
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| Op-ed | Are the People of the Middle East Fit for Freedom? | Edward Hudgins | 5/14/2004 |
| Description: Here's a twist on the Iraqi torture story. Our revulsion at the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and our system's ability to uncover and correct those abuses are signs of our moral and political health, based on universal principles of justice. But the lack of outrage in the ''Arab street'' to the mutilation of the burned bodies of dead allied soldiers or -- it seems -- the beheading of an American civilian raises the question, are the people of the Middle East fit for freedom? America's ability to transform dysfunctional societies is limited; citizens of those societies will need to reform their own countries for themselves. |
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| FAQ | Why is Objectivism atheistic rather than agnostic? | Damian Moskovitz | 5/5/2004 |
| Description: Agnosticism, in the philosophical sense, holds that we should not reject anything that we have not disproved (particularly the claim that God exists). Because agnosticism refuses to reject arbitrary propositions, agnosticism is false. Agnosticism is wrong about how to approach claims that lack evidence. A proposition that is not supported by any evidence at all should be rejected not as false, but as arbitrary, and should not even be entertained as a hypothesis. The proposition that God exists is an example of an arbitrary proposition (see David Kelley, ''Is Objectivism Compatible with Religion?''). The burden of proof is on he who advances a claim—it is not the atheist’s responsibility to disprove the existence of God, whether or not it is possible to do so. |
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| Events | TOC in Scoltand | | 5/4/2004 |
| Description: Join TOC on an exclusive education and travel experience with Alumni Campus Abroad. Scotland, OCtober 6-14, 2004. |
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| Center News | Update on Atlas Shrugged Movie, May 3, 2004 | | 5/3/2004 |
| Description: According to The Atlas Society, while there have been reports that the Atlas Shrugged might be scrapped, the producers expect the project to go forward. |
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| Review | A Romantic Manifesto | William Thomas | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: Fans of Ayn Rand have long awaited a new novel similar to hers in ideas and idealism. They may well find what they have been seeking in Alexandra York's recently published Crosspoints. |
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| Center News | Help the Center | | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: Ways to shop and support TOC |
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| Center News | Setzer leads two Florida groups | | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: Luther "Luke" Setzer runs two different Objectivist groups in the central Florida area. The first is Space Coast Objectivism Promoters and Explorers (SCOPE). The second is the Objectivist Club at the University of Central Florida (OCUCF) group. |
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| Center News | Hudgins rips taxes | | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: Edward Hudgins, director of TOC's Washington office, was active recently in his opposition to the current tax system. |
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| Center News | Las Vegas Conference on Values of Capitalism | | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center held its 2004 Spring Conference on April 17 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The theme was "Values of Capitalism." The scene was the sumptuous Treasure Island Hotel and Casino. |
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| Perspectives | Hollywood Canonizes an Eco-Terrorist | Robert Bidinotto | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: If violence seems more prevalent today, it is because influential people are more ready to glamorize it. Consider the coming canonization of Paul Watson, one of the Founding Fathers of modern eco-terrorism. |
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| Perspectives | An Israeli Airman Attains New Heights in Painting | Michelle Fram-Cohen | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: When Uri Gil retired from the Israeli air force, he was the oldest combat pilot in the world still on active reserve duty. He was also an accomplished painter, whose quest for beauty has led him to master the oil-and-tempera technique of Jan van Eyck |
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| Article | Mozart's Don Giovanni: An Enlightenment Hero? | John Kerns | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: The greatest of the Enlightenment's composers chose as one of his chief protagonists the seducer Don Giovanni. Did Mozart mean to present the Don as a symbol of independent thinking and action? Or is he supposed to be a dissolute roué who gets his just deserts by being dragged down to Hell? |
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| Cultural Calendar | The Lovesong of Alexander Pope | Roger Donway | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: In one astonishing poem, a cool and witty Enlightenment Catholic made eternal a twelfth-century woman's cry for carnal love. |
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| Miscellaneous | May Soundings | | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: Art Renewal Center ; Great Britain's leading playwrights David Hare; funding of the arts; musuem entrance fees. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: The Fine Arts | | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: What Art is By Louis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi; From the Fountainhead to the Future, and Other Essays on Art and Excellence By Alexandra York; Human Accomplishment By Charles Murray; Music in Western Civilization By Paul Henry Lang |
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| Op-ed | A Flashback to ''Atlas Shrugged'' | Adam Reed | 4/28/2004 |
| Description: The recent train disaster in North Korea replays in reality a fictional crash from Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged." In this op-ed, Adam Reed observes that in both cases it was the hobbling of the human mind by repressive governments that turned technology from a live-giving force into a destroyer of lives. He concludes that man's right to live by the judgment of his own mind is a necessary precondition for human life. Where this right is denied, people die. |
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| Center News | The Best Moral Case for Capitalism | | 4/27/2004 |
| Description: In May 2002,Dinesh D'Souza and David Kelley debated "The Best Moral Case for Capitalism." The FreedomFest website now has available several portions of this debate. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Grinding Humans into the Mud | Edward Hudgins | 4/22/2004 |
| Description: Bush Sr. pandered to evironmentalists and his son is following in his footsteps. |
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| Op-ed | April 15: A Day of Moral Shame | Edward Hudgins | 4/14/2004 |
| Description: Americans should lament April 15 - tax day -- as the day that too many of us all too willingly surrender our liberty and opportunities in life. Those who understand tax independent individuals do not want to be robbed of their money or freedom should advise their fellow citizens to rebel against the current immoral tax system. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Rebirth of the Spirit | Edward Hudgins | 4/10/2004 |
| Description: One need not accept a mythology or religion to appreciate the periodic need to reflect on what's important in our lives, to refocus on all the potential that lays before us, to revitalize our drive to achieve our goals, and overall to refresh our soul. |
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| Events | Graduate Seminar in Objectivist Philosophy and Method: Application Information | | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: Application information for the Graduate Seminar in Objectivist Philosophy and Method: July 31 - August 7. |
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| Commentary | Honoring the Choice to Die | Michelle Marder Kamhi | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: What is the most humane way to treat individuals who, at the end of a long life, express a clear-minded wish to die? As a society with an increasingly aged population, we need to confront this question head-on. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Human Accomplishment | | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance By Anthony Gottlieb; Art: A New History By Paul Johnson; Music in Western Civilization By Paul Henry Lang;
A History of Invention: From Stone Axes to Silicon Chips By Trevor I. Williams, William E. Schaaf, and Arianne E. Burnette
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| Center News | TOC Reprints Unrugged Individualism | | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: The Objectivism Center has reprinted David Kelley’s Unrugged Individualism: The Selfish Basis of Benevolence. |
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| Center News | Student Scholarships For Spring Conference Now Available | | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: A special donation has made available two student scholarships to attend our Spring Conference April 17 in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
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| Review | The Silver Screen as Philosophic Mirror | Russell La Valle | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: Cultures have a sense of life, just as people do, and that sense of life sets the trends and styles of the culture. With that in mind, it is illuminating to look at the films nominated in the ''Best Picture'' category of the Academy Awards during the last two years. |
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| Center News | Hudgins At The Movies | | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: Edward Hudgins' latest op-eds deal with some recent films: ''The Passion of Christ'' and ''The Barbarian Invasions''. |
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| Center News | Sightings, April 2004 | | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: We The Living; Thor Halvorssen and FIRE; Stephen Hicks on Ayn Rand and Business Ethics. |
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| Interview | An Interview with Charles Murray | David Kelley | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: David Kelley talks with the author of Human Accomplishment about his work’s philosophical premises and arguments, including the objectivity of excellence and the significance of expert opinion. They discuss as well the cultural history of the modern world and what it says about the driving forces underlying creativity. |
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| Review | What Hath Man Wrought! | William Thomas | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: Charles Murray’s Human Accomplishment is a study of mankind’s remarkable discoveries and creations. Covering 2,750 years, from 800 B.C. to 1950, it employs anecdote and argument to awaken “a sense of wonder” at the greatest feats of human accomplishment in art and science. |
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| Center News | Chicago Objectivists Love Enright's Salon | | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: Marsha Enright’s New Intellectual Forum in Chicago is one of the most successful Objectivist salons in the country. |
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| Center News | Kelley Will Present Epistemology Paper at Advanced Seminar | | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: A preview of the 6th annual Advanced Seminar in Objectivist Studies. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, April 2004 | | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: U.S. senators trading well; we-centered world; Brain-drain in Germany; Voting on the Iraq War; Iraq better off without Saddam? |
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| Events | Seminar Deadline Is June 14 | | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: June 14 is the registration deadline for the TOC Summer Seminar. This year’s seminar is being held in Vancouver, British Columbia, from July 3 through 10. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Black Like Me? | Edward Hudgins | 3/19/2004 |
| Description: John Kerry's appeals to black voters are paternalistic racist. More and more African Americans are rejecting collectivist dogma for true individualism |
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| Op-ed | The Problems with ''The Passion's'' Moral Message | Edward Hudgins | 3/3/2004 |
| Description: The controversy surrounding Mel Gibson's film ''The Passion of the Christ'' reflects a deep divide between those who are concerned about the erosion of morals that traditionally are provided by religion and those who fear that religious dogma will promote intolerance. In this op-ed, I argue that Gibson's thought provoking film ultimately delivers that wrong message concerning sin, sacrifice and suffering. Only a moral code of personal responsibility, not original sin; self-interest, not self-sacrifice; and achievement, not suffering; can avoid the dangers of moral relativism and intolerance, and ensure both personal happiness and a free society. |
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| Center News | William Perry Joins The Objectivist Center | | 3/1/2004 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center has hired William E. Perry as director of community relations. |
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| Article | The ''Lost'' Parts of Ayn Rand's Playboy Interview | Don Hauptman | 3/1/2004 |
| Description: March marks the fortieth anniversary of Ayn Rand's influential Playboy interview. Recently, the author acquired the original manuscript materials of the interview. In this article, he reveals the questions and answers that were not published and provides an inside look at how Rand and the magazine's staff collaborated to create this landmark document. |
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| Review | Creeping Collectivism Corrupts a Good Economist | David Henderson | 3/1/2004 |
| Description: Joseph Stiglitz, author of The Roaring Nineties, used to write intelligently on such subjects as taxation and indeed won the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics. Unfortunately, a collectivist morality now infects his work, prompting him to say some remarkably silly things. |
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| Cultural Calendar | Michelangelo's David | Roger Donway | 3/1/2004 |
| Description: Roger Donway celebrates the achievement of Michelangelo's David. |
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| Miscellaneous | March Soundings | | 3/1/2004 |
| Description: Liberal apprehension; law-making in Britain; Justifying the welfare-state; The Vagina Monologues; Republican Spending Explosion |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Environmentalism | | 3/1/2004 |
| Description: The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World By Bjørn Lomborg; Bountiful Harvest: Technology, Food Safety, and the Environment By Thomas R. DeGregori; Cutting Green Tape: Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation, and the Law Edited by Richard L. Stroup and Roger E. Meiners; In a Dark Wood: The Fight over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology
By Alston Chase. |
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| Article | Death by Environmentalism | Robert Bidinotto | 3/1/2004 |
| Description: What does it mean, in practice, to hold a philosophy that values pristine nature, apart from any use that humans may make of it? The question is urgent because just that is the fundamental premise of the environmental movement, and the consequences are human deaths. |
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| Center News | Ed Hudgins Reports from the Front, March 2004 | | 3/1/2004 |
| Description: The latest Reports from the Front--frequent comments on cultural and political matters--by Ed Hudgins, TOC Washington Director. |
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| Center News | Sightings, March 2004 | | 3/1/2004 |
| Description: Stephen Hicks and David Mayer establish websites; Shawn Klein accepted into Ph.D; Camp Indecon at Woodland Park, Colorado, from July 17 through July 24, 2004; The Objectivist Travelers schedule tour of Scotland; new issue of Aristos; Anthem movie news; The Atlasphere |
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| Center News | Ed Hudgins Speaks on Space and More | | 3/1/2004 |
| Description: A report on recent speaking events and op-eds by Ed Hudgins, TOC Washington Director. |
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| Op-ed | Example of Our First President | Edward Hudgins | 2/26/2004 |
| Description: An op-ed celebrating the birthday of George Washington and the moral example he set for all of us. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Special Interests or the Special Use of Force? | Edward Hudgins | 2/25/2004 |
| Description: The denouncing of special interests by all the presidential candidates is deeply hypocritical and evades the truth that government creates these special interests in the first place. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Happy Birthday George Washington! | Edward Hudgins | 2/14/2004 |
| Description: George Washington’s achievements reflected his outstanding moral character and political legacy. |
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| Op-ed | Inadvertent Observations: Finding the barbarian | Edward Hudgins | 2/7/2004 |
| Description: A review of the Oscar-nominated French Canadian film ''The Barbarian Invasions,'' by TOC's DC director Ed Hudgins. While the title suggests a not-so-thinly veiled attack on America, the film perhaps inadvertently exposes the flaws both of leftist public policies and the moral decadence that tends to accompany them.
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Happy Birthday Ronald Reagan | Edward Hudgins | 2/6/2004 |
| Description: A tribute to President Ronald Reagan on his 93rd birthday. |
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| FrontReport | Report Follow-up: Assault on Science Spreads | Edward Hudgins | 2/3/2004 |
| Description: The omission of evolution from Georgia's schools is retreat from science. |
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| Center News | The Objectivist Center Holds Forum on Islam in America | | 2/1/2004 |
| Description: Event report from the forum on Islam in America held in DC in November. |
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| Article | Fortress Americanism | Roger Donway | 2/1/2004 |
| Description: Foreign ideas—mostly European ideas—are having a growing influence on American judges, lawyers, and political theorists. In principle, there is nothing wrong with this. As a nation of immigrants, America has thrived by importing the fresh perspectives of foreigners. But when the foreign ideas influencing U.S. elites are also alien ideas—alien to the fundamental philosophy of our founding—then they bring danger. |
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| Perspectives | Art and Ideals | David Kelley | 2/1/2004 |
| Description: The earliest known paintings and musical objects are approximately thirty to forty thousand years old, a time when man's life was a struggle for survival. Yet, unlike tools, these art objects have no clear survival value. Why, then, did humans begin creating such objects at that point in time? One hypothesis points to the development of man's conceptual capacity. |
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| Letters | Letters: My Choices, My Critics | Robert Bidinotto | 2/1/2004 |
| Description: Numerous readers of Navigator wrote to comment on the author’s recommendations in 'The Top Ten Films—Objectively Speaking' and 'One Hundred Film Classics.' In this article, the critics have their say, and the author responds. |
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| Cultural Calendar | The Victorian Atlas | Roger Donway | 2/1/2004 |
| Description: Henry Bessemer may have been the first person to make his career as an inventor selling in an open market. As a result of his restless, problem-solving mind, he created the inventions that began the Steel Age. Yet our culture's biographers, who expend decades writing the lives of artistic frauds and power-seeking politicians, have never turned their attention to this Atlas of nineteenth-century industry. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, January/February 2004 | | 2/1/2004 |
| Description: Thomas Sowell on objectivity; Christian Marxists; France, Germany, Russia Allies?; Republicans abandoning free-markets and small government? |
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| Center News | Fifteenth Summer Seminar to Be Held in Vancouver | | 2/1/2004 |
| Description: The foundation of the seminar is a strong program of fifty-eight lectures, presented by an outstanding faculty. The program includes major figures and scholars in the Objectivist movement, those fighting for economic and political freedom, and leaders of a new artistic renaissance. |
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| Center News | A 'Student Initiative' for 2004 | | 2/1/2004 |
| Description: 2004 is "the year of the student initiative." New student programs: Graduate Scholarships; Graduate Seminar in Objectivist Philosophy and Method, and Distance-Learning Seminar in Objectivism. Also, the Summer Internship returns. |
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| Center News | Objectivist History to be Preserved in a New Video Series | | 2/1/2004 |
| Description: First hand accounts of the birth and development of Objectivism will be permanently preserved on video thanks to an ambitious new venture, The Objectivist History Project. The Objectivist Center has formed an agreement with television producer Duncan Scott to conduct videotape interviews with key individuals who worked with Ayn Rand in the development of Objectivism. |
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| Letters | Letters: Precautionary Principle, Toleration (Jan/Feb 2004) | | 2/1/2004 |
| Description: Irfran Khawaja on the Precautionary Principle applied to war, Stephen Hicks on Voltaire and Toleration. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Art and Culture | | 2/1/2004 |
| Description: From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life: 1500 to the Present By Jacques Barzun; The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art By Ernst Gombrich; The World of Art By Robert Payne; Art: A New History By Paul Johnson |
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| Center News | Internships and Fellowships at TOC | | 1/30/2004 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center offers internships and occasional visiting fellowships for students, scholars, and activists to work on writing projects at our offices. Deadline: April 9, 2004. |
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| Center News | TOC announces two new seminars | | 1/30/2004 |
| Description: TOC announces the Graduate Seminar in Objectivist Philosophy and Method to be held at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY, July 31- Aug 7, 2004; and the Distance-Learning Seminar in Objectivism to be offered Fall 2004. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Grand Canyon Sized Silliness | Edward Hudgins | 1/30/2004 |
| Description: Biblical creationist book carried at souvenir shops of the Grand Canyon. The pre-scientific credulity on which creationism rests simply demeans us and damns us to ignorance.
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| Center News | TOC Graduate Scholarships | | 1/29/2004 |
| Description: The Center will offer up to a maximum of $12,000 annually in living expenses and tuition and fees to support qualified graduate students pursuing advanced degrees in philosophy and closely related fields such as psychology and cognitive science. Application Deadline: March 1. |
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| Op-ed | Return to the Moon? Not with this NASA | Edward Hudgins | 1/24/2004 |
| Description: If we're true to our nature, we will explorer and settle planets. But NASA will not get us to Mars; only individuals with vision, acting in a free market, will make us a truly space-faring civilization. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Principles versus Sentiments in the State of the Union Address | Edward Hudgins | 1/22/2004 |
| Description: Washington Director Edward Hudgins discusses George W. Bush's State of the Union address focusing on the importance of acting on principle versus acting from sentiments. He critizes Bush for not acting on principle enough. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Can a Return to the Moon Revive the Spirit of Apollo? | Edward Hudgins | 1/17/2004 |
| Description: A return to the moon and a trip to Mars will only ignite the human spirit if accomplished by the initiative of private individuals and entrepreneurs, not wasetful government bureaucracy. |
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| Op-ed | The Human Spirit of Christmas | Edward Hudgins | 12/22/2003 |
| Description: The holiday season is a time for spiritual reflection, celebration and frenzied commerce. These activities might seem incompatible. They are not. Many joys of the season arise from the highest in our human spirit. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: A Trial for Saddam Hussein | Edward Hudgins | 12/17/2003 |
| Description: Saddam Hussein now will stand trial for his crimes. The lessons of the trial could be as critical as Saddam’s capture. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: The Englishwoman and the Naughty School | Edward Hudgins | 12/10/2003 |
| Description: The socialist philosophy in its essence: equality is preferable even if it means that everyone is left equally ignorant or, in the economic sphere, equally poor. |
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| Op-ed | Can Sex Liberate Red China? | Edward Hudgins | 12/8/2003 |
| Description: Communist China is experiencing a sexual revolution, and Beijing is not at all happy about it. The anti-sex motivation of the dictators in China is the same as George Orwell's Big Brother in his novel 1984: to prevent individuals from focusing on their own personal pleasure and happiness, and on forming loving, long-term relationships with another rather than devoting their time and energy to serving the political regime and "collective good." |
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| Cultural Calendar | The Wright Stuff | Ralph Kinney Bennett | 12/1/2003 |
| Description: It has taken a hundred years, and it is still sinking into the minds of scientists and aeronautical engineers and craftsmen just how deep, how original, how prescient was the genius of the Wright brothers. |
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| Center News | A New Unrugged Individualism | | 12/1/2003 |
| Description: Announcing the publication of a revised edition of David Kelley's seminal tract Unrugged Individualism: The Selfish Basis of Benevolence. |
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| Center News | Five Speakers Spark ''A Meeting of Minds'' | | 12/1/2003 |
| Description: On November 1, one hundred and thirty people attended The Objectivist Center’s one-day conference, “A Meeting of Minds,” held in New York City. |
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| Center News | Hudgins Holds Conference on Postal Privatization | | 12/1/2003 |
| Description: News from Ed Hudgins at the Washington Office |
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| Center News | Sightings, December 2003 | | 12/1/2003 |
| Description: Stephen Cox; The Atlasphere; Objectivist Yellow Pages |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Environmental Risk | | 12/1/2003 |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, December 2003 | | 12/1/2003 |
| Description: Nonprofits and minimum wage; Scandinavia Pro-business?; Ashtray inspectors; Where Europeans see threats to world peace. |
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| Article | Better Never? | Sam Kazman | 12/1/2003 |
| Description: The Precautionary Principle is the idea that society should permit no new technologies to be developed without the certainty that they will cause no environmental harm. But to stop technologies in their infancy may well mean stopping them dead. And given that so much of human survival and flourishing depends on new technologies, stopping technology means curtailing civilization. |
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| FAQ | What Is the Objectivist View of Free Will? | William Thomas | 12/1/2003 |
| Description: Thomas explains Objectivism's understanding that volition resides in the exercise of reason, demonstrates that our knowledge of volition's existence has axiomatic status in the hierarchy of knowledge, and shows that any attempt to deny the existence of free will is therefore self-refuting. |
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| Review | The Dogmatic Determinism of Daniel Dennett | Eyal Mozes | 12/1/2003 |
| Description: In Freedom Evolves, philosopher Daniel C. Dennett defends the view called "compatibilism," the idea that freedom of the will should be redefined so that it is compatible with determinism. Yet his entire project is motivated by one assumption that he refuses to give up: the assumption that causality is a relation between events. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Giving Thanks for Freedom | Edward Hudgins | 11/26/2003 |
| Description: if Thanksgiving causes us to reflect on the blessings that we have created, it could also help to create the culture necessary for us to win more battles here on the D.C. front. |
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| Press Release | Objectivist Center Holds DC Forum on 'Islam in America and American Values: Are They Compatible?' | | 11/14/2003 |
| Description: On November 13, 2003 the Objectivist Center held a policy forum in Washington D.C., on ''Islam in America and American Value: Are They Compatible?'' |
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| Center News | Arrivals and Departures at TOC | | 11/1/2003 |
| Description: Laura Baratta departs and Linda Bloomer and David Shetterly arrive. |
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| Article | The Party of Modernity | David Kelley | 11/1/2003 |
| Description: The values of modernity, which flourished in the Enlightenment, still animate much of American life. Yet people do not think of themselves as sharing an outlook, comparable to Catholicism or Buddhism. If the modernist perspective is once again to be a force in the culture, we must articulate it as a unique, coherent philosophy. |
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| Letters | Letters: Can there be an 'After Socialism'? | | 11/1/2003 |
| Description: A reader thanks Alan Kors for speaking for the victims of socialism. |
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| Center News | Explore the TOC Web Site | | 11/1/2003 |
| Description: The TOC web site and what it has to offer. |
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| Center News | David Kelley, Stephen Hicks, and Michael Newberry Addresses Conference of New Art Foundation | | 11/1/2003 |
| Description: The inaugural conference of the Foundation for the Advancement of Art, the mission of the organization is "to establish innovative representationalism as the alternative to postmodern art in the world's leading contemporary art museums." |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Modernity | | 11/1/2003 |
| Description: The Empire of Reason By Henry Steele Commager; The Lunar Men
By Jenny Uglow; The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson By Daniel J. Boorstin; The Portable Enlightenment Reader Edited by Isaac Kramnick |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, November 2003 | | 11/1/2003 |
| Description: Fighting corruption, Wordwatchers Corner, Lawyers fighting for welfare rights, Polls about beliefs show cultural split. |
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| Center News | Ed Hudgins Visits East-Central Europe | | 11/1/2003 |
| Description: Edward Hudgins visited Prague in the Czech Republic, Vienna in Austria, and Budapest in Hungary on a trip sponsored by the Center for First Principles and by several businesses. |
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| Letters | Letters: How Chile Was Saved | | 11/1/2003 |
| Description: Irfan Khawaja responds to Jose Pinera's "How Chile Was Saved"[Navigator, September 2003]and Pinera responds to Khawaja's critism. |
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| Miscellaneous | Sightings, November 2003 | | 11/1/2003 |
| Description: We the Living released to theaters across North America; Robert James Bidinotto's ecoNot.com with slogan "Individualism, not Environmentalism". |
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| Review | The Ten Best Films--Objectively Speaking | Robert James Bidinotto | 11/1/2003 |
| Description: To make the author’s list, a film must be technically proficient, advance an unambiguously heroic view of human potential, and manifest one or more of the distinctively Objectivist virtues: rationality, productiveness, intellectual independence, self-realization, and pride. Bonus points go to pro-capitalist movies. |
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| Review | One Hundred Film Classics | Robert James Bidinotto | 11/1/2003 |
| Description: Using such categories as "Integrity ," "Justice," and "Grand Passions," Bidinotto compiles a shelf-full of movies for the Objectivist sense of life. |
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| Perspectives | The Battle for Toleration--and Its Betrayal | Roger Donway | 11/1/2003 |
| Description: According to Alan Charles Kors, “Voltaire’s deepest influence on Western civilization is the enshrining of toleration as a virtue.” Yet today the concept of toleration he promoted has been thoroughly perverted. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: The Witless Battle Over General Boykin | David Kelley | 10/24/2003 |
| Description: The irrationality and fruitlessness of the conservative and liberal sides of the culture war shows itself in the controversy over General William Boykin and his evangelical Christian view of America as a Christian nation. |
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| Commentary | American World Conquest? It's More Likely Than You Think | William Thomas | 10/21/2003 |
| Description: Further terrorist attacks won't send America into pacifism, but into likely world conquest. |
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| Op-ed | China's Challenge in Space | Edward Hudgins | 10/16/2003 |
| Description: China’s launch of a man into space has many American policy makers asking, "Are we in a new space race? Should NASA budgets be increased?" In this op-ed I maintain that American concerns over China’s achievement reflect three decades of NASA’s missed opportunities. . I argue here, as I do in my book, "Space: The Free-Market Frontier," that NASA should begin to back out of civilian space activities, turning over operations to the private sector. Rather than launching a new space race, the U.S. government should unleash American entrepreneurs who will help make us a true, space-faring civilization. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Racist Cookies, Colleges and Quarterbacks | Edward Hudgins | 10/3/2003 |
| Description: If granting special privileges in the sale of cookies or promotion of quarterbacks based on race, gender or ethnicity is insulting and degrading, the same principle when applied to college admissions must be judged the same as well. |
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| Center News | Frank Bubb Joins TOC Board | | 10/1/2003 |
| Description: Frank W. Bubb, a founding contributor to The Objectivist Center and an active participant ever since, has joined the center's board of trustees |
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| Center News | TOC to Hold Fall Conference in Manhattan | | 10/1/2003 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center will sponsor a one-day conference, "A Meeting of Minds," in New York City on Saturday, November 1. |
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| Letters | Letters: On Fantasy Fiction | | 10/1/2003 |
| Description: Michelle Fram Cohen responds to William Thomas's analysis of fantasy literature. |
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| Article | Interpreting the Constitution Contextually | David Mayer | 10/1/2003 |
| Description: Debate over constitutional interpretation, and Supreme Court nominees, is often conducted in terms of strict construction versus loose construction and conservative versus liberal. The participants in these debates—like the six blind men with the elephant—have all got hold of a partial truth but have missed the big picture.
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| Center News | August Advocacy Training in California | | 10/1/2003 |
| Description: Senior Fellow William Thomas held an Effective Communication Workshop over the weekend of August 15-17 in Aptos, California. |
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| Center News | Ed Hudgins, Advocate | | 10/1/2003 |
| Description: The advocacy work of Ed Hudgins, Washington Director of TOC |
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| Center News | Sightings, October 2003 | | 10/1/2003 |
| Description: Logan Darrow Clements in the California race for Governor |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Constitutional Philosophy | | 10/1/2003 |
| Description: Locke in America: The Moral Philosophy of the Founding Era
By Jerome Huyler; Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution By Forrest McDonald; Taking the Constitution Seriously By Walter Berns; Cato Supreme Court Review: 2001–2002
Edited by James L. Swanson
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, October 2003 | | 10/1/2003 |
| Description: African Education, Hong Kong and the Future of Freedom, Our Friends the South Koreans |
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| Perspectives | The Popular Art of Giuseppe Verdi | Roger Donway | 10/1/2003 |
| Description: Verdi (1813–1901) thoroughly embraced that Italian tradition of going to opera to enjoy it, even as he employed his craftsmanship to enrich it. |
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| Commentary | The Triumph of Leviathan | Herbert London | 10/1/2003 |
| Description: The death of communism has not meant the triumph of capitalism but of the all-pervasive regulatory welfare state. |
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| Op-ed | France's Killer Collectivism | Edward Hudgins | 9/15/2003 |
| Description: The 15,000 deaths of mostly senior citizens in France this summer cannot be blamed merely on the hot weather. Rather, France’s culture and public policies erode personal responsibility. As a result, many sons and daughters in France left elderly parents in un-air-conditioned apartments as they went off for their August vacations. Americans should take a lesson from France’s failings and reject the policies and ethos of irresponsibility. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: 9-11: The Ultimate Philosophy Lesson | Edward Hudgins | 9/10/2003 |
| Description: 9-11 teaches us that a rational philosophy is literally a matter of life and death.
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| Events | Hold this date: Meeting of Minds | | 9/6/2003 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center will host "A Meeting of Minds," a one-day conference in New York City on November 1, 2003 |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Al Franken Is Responsible for Not Being Responsible. | Edward Hudgins | 9/5/2003 |
| Description: Franken in a recent interview offered as a virtue the philosophically vile belief that leads to the repressive policies of the Left. The belief that individuals are not responsible for their own lives must be challenged if we are ultimately to root out the policies that emerge from it. |
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| Commentary | How Chile Was Saved | Jose Pinera | 9/1/2003 |
| Description: Leftist legend says that Salvador Allende was a popular, democratic president ousted by a repressive military dictatorship. In fact, the revolution that overthrew him rescued Chile from the horrors of Marxist socialism and started the country on a path to genuine freedom. José Piñera sets the record straight. |
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| Center News | Advanced Seminar Studies Mind and Knowledge | | 9/1/2003 |
| Description: The 2003 Advanced Seminar in Objectivist Studies was held June 25-27 at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts. The theme of the seminar was mind and knowledge. |
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| Events | A Seminar for the New Intellectual | | 9/1/2003 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center's Fourteenth Annual Summer Seminar was held just outside Boston this year and offered its usual array of lectures and workshops, performances and recitals, dinners, dances, and all-night discussions. A good time was had by all. |
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| Center News | Hudgins Explains Capitalism to Many Audiences | | 9/1/2003 |
| Description: News from Ed Hudgins at the Washington Office |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: The Red Death | | 9/1/2003 |
| Description: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum; The Harvest of Sorrow By Robert Conquest; Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism By Joshua Muravchik; The Black Book of Communism By Stéphane Courtois et al. |
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| Article | Can There Be an ''After Socialism''? | Alan Charles Kors | 9/1/2003 |
| Description: Virtually every American knows that Nazi Germany brought death to six million Jews and perhaps six million other victims. But how many know that communism is responsible for seven to eight times as many deaths? Until the West has thoroughly confronted this horrific slaughter, writes Alan Kors, communism cannot belong to the past. |
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| Perspectives | The Industrial Revolution's Indispensable Entrepreneur | Roger Donway | 9/1/2003 |
| Description: Students of capitalist history too often imagine that it is merely the history of technology. The role played by Matthew Boulton in the development of the steam engine demonstrates how false that picture is. |
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| Miscellaneous | September Soundings | | 9/1/2003 |
| Description: Democrats and Million dollar contributions; Responsiblity in Britian; Education in New York; Whom Do Americans Trust? |
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| Sightings, September 2003 | | 9/1/2003 |
| Description: Michael Newberry and the Foundation of the Advancement of Art; Library of Congress adding Rand papers; R. Paul Drake talk published; Beckman-Kaseman Memorial of 9/11 in Washington; the Passing of E.G. Ross. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Japan's Killer Collectivism | Edward Hudgins | 8/29/2003 |
| Description: A wave of suicides shows the need for individualism values |
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| Op-ed | The Spiritual Significance of Mars | Edward Hudgins | 8/12/2003 |
| Description: As the news and the night sky are dominated by Mars, we should reflect on the possibility that some day it will be another habitat for humanity. Human beings survive and flourish because we transform our environment to meet our needs. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Endangered Constitution | Edward Hudgins | 8/12/2003 |
| Description: Only when legislators and judges recognize that laws are meant to protect freedom and must be clear and objective will we begin to restore a semblance of a government that is our protector rather than our persecutor |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Monkeys, Men and Morality | Edward Hudgins | 8/6/2003 |
| Description: Anthropologist Dr. Louis S. B. Leakey's (1903-1973) birthday deserves commemoration not just because of Leakey's achievements but also because of the political and cultural implications of his life-long enterprise. |
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| Op-ed | Extracting Ourselves from the Wetlands Quagmire | Edward Hudgins | 8/4/2003 |
| Description: Only moral confusion or worse - a deep hatred for all things human could cause anyone to put the welfare of bugs and bogs over people. But individual humans, not pests and damp dirt, are of supreme value and have rights. |
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| Center News | Sightings, July-August 2003 | | 8/1/2003 |
| Description: Victor Niederhoffer; David Kelley teaches cognitive science at Vassar College; Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert Ayn Rand fans |
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| Commentary | The Charms and Enchantments of Fantasy | William Thomas | 8/1/2003 |
| Description: Although fantasy fiction employs anti-Enlightenment trappings, it appeals to a reader's healthy desire to experience extraordinary characters and actions. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, July-August 2003 | | 8/1/2003 |
| Description: Wordwatcher: Altruism; Media Misrepresentations of business |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Self-Esteem | | 8/1/2003 |
| Description: The Psychology of Self-Esteem; The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem; Taking Responsibility: Self-Reliance and the Accountable Life; Self-Esteem at Work: How Confident People Make Powerful Companies |
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| Cultural Calendar | Lives and Lessons for a Museum of Capitalism | Roger Donway | 8/1/2003 |
| Description: The lives and lessons that belong in a Museum of Capitalism |
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| Article | Is High Self-Esteem Bad for You? | Robert Campbell Walter Foddis | 8/1/2003 |
| Description: Recent studies that denigrate the value of self-esteem rely upon methodologies that fail to distinguish between genuine self-esteem and narcissism. |
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| Center News | Activism at the D.C. Office | | 8/1/2003 |
| Description: Ed Hudgins activities at the D.C. Office |
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| Letters | Letters: On Weighing War (July/August 2003) | | 8/1/2003 |
| Description: Letters in response to William Thomas article Weighing War |
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| Review | Four Fantastic Sagas | William Thomas | 8/1/2003 |
| Description: A brief review of four fantasy series. |
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| Center News | Ed Hudgins Reports from the Front | | 8/1/2003 |
| Description: The director of TOC's Washington office has launched a new vehicle for spreading the center's ideas. |
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| Center News | TOC Promotion Seen by Thousands | | 8/1/2003 |
| Description: TOC Promotion Seen by Thousands at FreeMarket.net |
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| Center News | TOC Web User-Sessions Reach New Heights | | 8/1/2003 |
| Description: TOC Web User-Sessions Reach New Heights |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Mouse Droppings and Government Hypocrites | Edward Hudgins | 7/31/2003 |
| Description: The federal agency that oversees food safety, that inspects meat and poultry, couldn’t keep the mouse droppings out of its own eatery |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Protecting Property and Profits | Edward Hudgins | 7/18/2003 |
| Description: Pharmaceutical companies are entitled to their profits and re-importation of drugs supports state-sponsored theft. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Charity begins where government stops. | Edward Hudgins | 7/11/2003 |
| Description: Government and charity should not mix. |
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| Op-ed | The Shape of Truth | Edward Hudgins | 7/10/2003 |
| Description: Neil LaBute's movie 'The Shape of Thngs' -- about a nerdy student who falls for a self-styled radical artist seeking 'truth' -- shows the consequences of abandoning personal integrity and authenticity. It also is a scathing attack on art community elites, who reject all standards and thus hate LaBute’s movie, which exposes them for what they are |
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| Op-ed | What If There Were No America? | Edward Hudgins | 6/28/2003 |
| Description: On July 4th we celebrate the founding of the United States, the freest, richest country on Earth. To appreciate this country we can reflect upon what the world would be like if America had lost the Revolution, if there were no America. In this piece I argue that without idea of liberty articulated in the Declaration of Independence, there would be no land of opportunity, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, created by immigrants who came here to live free and prosper, no refuge for the oppressed, and no military giant to oppose tyrannies. Fortunately, this land of liberty was established, and we each strengthen and renew it when we make the most of our freedom and respect the freedom of others. Fortunately, there is an America. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: The Court's black and white decision. | Edward Hudgins | 6/27/2003 |
| Description: The Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action |
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| Center News | At The Center: June 2003 | | 6/23/2003 |
| Description: Washington Office Is Hard at Work; George De Feis Departs |
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| Commentary | Tax Codes Reflect Moral Codes | Edward Hudgins | 6/23/2003 |
| Description: Should we acquiesce when government takes our money in taxes? What is the basis for such levies? And on what basis should the impositions be distributed among the population? TOC's Washington director, Ed Hudgins, demonstrates that the various answers people give to these questions reflect their varying moral codes. |
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| Commentary | Martha Burk's Pseudo-Event | Russell La Valle | 6/23/2003 |
| Description: Though Martha Burk’s protest against Augusta National was a flop, her manipulation of the media bodes future successes. |
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| Letters | Letters: Malpractice, Augusta National (June 2003) | | 6/23/2003 |
| Description: Letters On Medical Malpractice Suits and On Augusta National's Men-Only Membership |
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| Perspectives | Dealing with an Anxious Time | Richard Warshak | 6/23/2003 |
| Description: Tips on dealing with tensions produced in a time or war and terror. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, June 2003 | | 6/23/2003 |
| Description: Republicans grow budget; Wishing the left was right about George W. Bush; Aleksandr Yakovlev on the Soviet Union; Postmoderns critize Environmentalists; |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Capitalist Heroes | | 6/23/2003 |
| Description: Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land By Victor K. McElheny; James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest By Albro Martin; The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 By Niall Ferguson; Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. By Ron Chernow |
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| Article | For a Museum of Capitalism | David Kelley | 6/23/2003 |
| Description: We need a museum of capitalism to celebrate the producers who make civilization possible. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Volunteers May Need to Volunteer. | Edward Hudgins | 6/18/2003 |
| Description: AmeriCorps is cutting funding of its 'volunteer' program. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: How would Jesus tax? | Edward Hudgins | 6/11/2003 |
| Description: Using Christianity to justify tax increases. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Candles and Hamburgers | Edward Hudgins | 6/3/2003 |
| Description: Consumer Groups fight food irraditation |
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| Interview | Power to the Purchasers! | | 5/31/2003 |
| Description: Fran Smith's Consumer Alert is a free-market group that believes consumers will benefit more from a market economy than from government regulation. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, May 2003 | | 5/31/2003 |
| Description: General Electric Strike, Supreme Court and HMOs, Stalingrad analogy to Baghdad, Derrida. |
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| Center News | Kelley Speaks in Arizona | | 5/31/2003 |
| Description: In mid-March, Executive Director David Kelley gave two talks in Arizona: a speech on "What America Should Stand For" to an audience in Phoenix and a lecture on The Fountainhead to a class at the University of Arizona in Tucson. |
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| Perspectives | Of Courage Undaunted | Russell La Valle | 5/31/2003 |
| Description: May 14, 1804 was the beginning of one of America's greatest adventure stories: the Lewis and Clark expedition. |
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| Article | Objectivity as a Weapon | William Thomas | 5/31/2003 |
| Description: Embedding reporters with American military units served the cause of truth--and the goals of the United States. |
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| Perspectives | The Enlightenment Spirit of Edward Jenner | Roger Donway | 5/31/2003 |
| Description: Celebrating the life-saving medical discovery (smallpox vaccine) of the scientist Edward Jenner |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Free-Market Solutions | | 5/31/2003 |
| Description: Bountiful Harvest: Technology, Food Safety, and the Environment
By Thomas R. DeGregori; Cutting Green Tape: Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation, and the Law
Edited by Richard L. Stroup and Roger E. Meiners; American Health Care: Government, Market Processes, and the Public Interest Edited by Roger D. Feldman; Mail [at] the Millenium: Will the Postal Service Go Private?
Edited by Edward Hudgins |
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| Center News | July 3 Dinner to Honor TOC's Sponsors | | 5/31/2003 |
| Description: The elegant tradition continues on the evening of Thursday, July 3, at the center's eleventh annual Sponsors Dinner, which will take place at the Bay Tower in Boston. |
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| Center News | Hudgins on NPR on space policy | | 5/29/2003 |
| Description: Edward Hudgins, TOC's DC Director, will be a guest on the "Science Friday with Ira Flatow" on National Public Radio on Friday, May 30, to discuss space policy issues. |
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| Center News | Film Company to Bring ''Atlas Shrugged'' to the Screen | | 5/13/2003 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center is pleased to announce that a new project to film Atlas Shrugged vhas just been launched. Crusader Entertainment, LLC, a Beverly Hills-based production company, announced on May 12 that it had acquired the film rights to Ayn Rand's great novel. |
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| Op-ed | Why We Watch the Skies | Edward Hudgins | 5/9/2003 |
| Description: May 10th is Astronomy Day, established by the Astronomical League to share
the joys of stargazing with the public. Astronomy highlights humanity's
defining capacities: our curiosity, rational capacity and ability to create
technology. |
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| Letters | Letters: Democracy (April 2003) | | 4/30/2003 |
| Description: The End of the American Republic? |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: War with Iraq | | 4/30/2003 |
| Description: Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923 By Efraim Karsh and Inari Karsh; The War Over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission By Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol; Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism By Dore Gold; The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq By Kenneth M. Pollack |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, April 2003 | | 4/30/2003 |
| Description: Modern Art as torture; George W. is Reagan's Son; CBC blames Columbia on American arrogance; Maurice Papon |
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| Center News | Last Call for Summer Seminar 03 | | 4/30/2003 |
| Description: The final deadlines for TOC's Summer Seminar 2003 are fast approaching. And don't forget that this year, for the first time, TOC is welcoming exhibitors to the seminar, to display their books, products, and services. |
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| Center News | Objectivism Is Out of This World | | 4/30/2003 |
| Description: After the tragic destruction of the space shuttle Columbia, Dennis Tito, the first private citizen-explorer to pay his own way to space, called together an elite group of some forty experts, space advocates, and businessmen to consider the future of man in space. |
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| Perspectives | The Life-Centered Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson | Robert Bidinotto | 4/29/2003 |
| Description: Because his focus was on human life itself, Jefferson was the central figure for the specialists who created the American Enlightenment. |
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| Perspectives | The Generous Imagination of William Shakespeare | Susan McCloskey | 4/29/2003 |
| Description: Shakespeare's characters do not live merely in his work; they are complete human beings. |
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| Cultural Calendar | April Cultural Calendar | | 4/29/2003 |
| Description: Honoring the birthdays of great achievers in history. |
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| Article | The Company of One's Kind | Russell La Valle | 4/23/2003 |
| Description: By seeking to deny members of the Augusta National Golf Club the pleasures
they derive from the company of other men, Martha Burk of the National
Council of Women's Organizations is demanding that human nature be lashed to
a Procrustean bed of her own rationalistic construction. |
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| Op-ed | Tax Policy Is Moral Policy | Edward Hudgins | 4/14/2003 |
| Description: Taxation is primarily a moral issue. Taxes are supposed to pay the costs of protecting the citizens’ lives, liberties and property. But most tax funds are wealth transfers that amount government expropriation rather than protection of rights. The tax system itself immorally punishes the most productive members of society. |
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| Commentary | Reflections on the Journalists' War Chatter | William Thomas | 4/5/2003 |
| Description: Reflections on the Journalists' War Chatter |
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| Commentary | Weighing War: How to Think About Iraq and North Korea | William Thomas | 4/1/2003 |
| Description: When should a free country go to war? William Thomas lays out the essentials
of the Objectivist approach to foreign policy and war. Looking at the cases
of Iraq and North Korea, the article examines the considerations that should
go into a decision for war, and assesses the long term effects and
legitimacy of war in both cases. |
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| Cultural Calendar | The Message of Alexander Graham Bell | Roger Donway | 3/31/2003 |
| Description: By hard work and hard thinking, Bell won the most profitable patent ever issued in America. Unfortunately, some historians have twisted his story to suggest that the rewards of invention under capitalism are a matter of luck. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Libertarianism | | 3/31/2003 |
| Description: David Boaz: Libertarianism; David Boaz: Toward Liberty; Charles Murrary: What It Means to Be a Libertarian; Leonard Reed: Anything That's Peaceful. |
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| Miscellaneous | March 03 Soundings | | 3/31/2003 |
| Description: Thomas Sowell on nation building; Omnious Parallels; Genetical Modified Food; Altruism; Catholic Pope?; Women's Peace Vigil |
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| Center News | TOC's Public Advocate in Action | | 3/31/2003 |
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| Center News | Whither Libertarianism? | | 3/31/2003 |
| Description: The full text of David Kelley's letter to Wall Street Journal on Libertarianism. |
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| Center News | At the Center March 2003 | | 3/31/2003 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center begins the new year with a number of changes in its staff. |
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| Center News | Summer Seminar for Students | | 3/31/2003 |
| Description: TOC's summer seminar is scheduled for June 28 through July 5, at Bentley College in Waltham, Masssachusetts, just outside of Boston. It welcomes participants of all ages and offers a wide variety of lectures, activities, and workshops. |
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| Cultural Calendar | The Productive Genius of Johann Sebastian Bach | William Thomas | 3/31/2003 |
| Description: Bach mastered the conventional forms of music, then used their untapped possibilities to create works never surpassed before or since. Today’s composers, rather than seeking to shock audiences, should take a lesson from the master. |
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| Article | Doctors Shrug | Edward Hudgins | 3/31/2003 |
| Description: In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand imagined a monstrous world in which the political regime makes it easy and legal for the rapacious and the envious to steal from the productive. Not surprisingly, many producers go on strike. This nightmare scenario is now breaking out across the United States. The victims are physicians. |
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| Perspectives | What Is the Objectivist View of Libertarianism? | David Kelley | 3/31/2003 |
| Description: William Thomas and David Kelley provide an answer to this frequently asked question in Navigator’s new feature: "The Essentials of Objectivism." |
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| Commentary | Free Minds and Free Militaries | William Thomas | 3/31/2003 |
| Description: A spate of proposals to revive the draft has recently emerged from the Left and the Right. William Thomas analyses these schemes as manifestations of the ongoing collectivist attempt to destroy America’s individualist society. |
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| Center News | Advanced Seminar in Objectivist Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind | | 3/31/2003 |
| Description: Advanced Seminar in Objectivist Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind |
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| Review | Getting It Wrong | Robert Bidinotto | 3/29/2003 |
| Description: Robert Bidinotto dissects William F. Buckley’s fictional history of the conservative and Objectivist movements. Ayn Rand |
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| Op-ed | American Muslims: Cleaning Their Own House | Edward Hudgins | 3/28/2003 |
| Description: The murder of American soldiers in Kuwait by Asam Akbar, an army sergeant and an American Muslim, raises questions concerning the place of Muslims in our society and about possible divided loyalties. American Muslims can create an enlightened for of Islam that could vanquish the hate on which terrorism is based. |
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| Op-ed | Rejecting the Fetish of United Nations Consensus | Edward Hudgins | 3/20/2003 |
| Description: Whether one favors the war with Iraq or not, those with a fetish for a United Nations sanction to give moral legitimacy to American actions exposed their own ethical confusion and pernicious political premises. In this op-ed I argue that the United States was founded to protect the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of its citizens, while the U.N. is dominated by governments that repress their own people. American foreign policies should be judged by whether they protect the freedom of Americans, not by whether they can garner a majority from the mortally bankrupt. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Art and Culture | | 2/28/2003 |
| Description: From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life: 1500 to the Present
By Jacques Barzun; The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art
By Ernst Gombrich; The World of Art
By Robert Payne; Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century
Edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball |
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| Commentary | Ban Government Racism, Not Discrimination | David Kelley | 2/28/2003 |
| Description: The current argument for affirmative action is undermined by government funding and corrupted by collectivist premises. But advocates of individualism should recognize that a "meritocratic" approach relying solely on grades and tests is not the answer. The answer is a rational and free society in which a wide variety of schools would be allowed to create widely varying types of student bodies by discriminating among applicants in any number of ways. |
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| Commentary | Is John Galt Venezuelan? | Thor Halvorssen | 2/28/2003 |
| Description: In January, nearly 90 percent of Venezuelan workers were refusing to participate in the economy that sustains the tyranny of Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez. In effect, the strikers in Venezuela have provided an answer to the question that prompted Ayn Rand to write Atlas Shrugged: What would happen if a society's productive members ceased to subsidize their own enslavement? |
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| Article | Where's the Art in Today's Art Education? | Michelle Marder Kamhi | 2/28/2003 |
| Description:
Advocates for art education have made inroads toward establishing the visual arts as part of primary- and secondary-school education. Nevertheless, there is cause for deep concern, for serious art of high quality has been rendered more marginal to the content of these programs. It has been displaced by trivial works of popular art and by cultural artifacts, selected mostly for the hidden sociopolitical messages that can be wrung from them. |
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| Center News | Fourteenth Annual TOC Summer Seminar | | 2/28/2003 |
| Description: The Program of TOC's 2003 Summer Seminar |
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| Review | Rousseau's Children | Roger Donway | 2/28/2003 |
| Description: In his book Life at the Bottom, psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple describes how his patients at a hospital and prison in the slums of Birmingham, England, got to their pathetic condition. He does not blame their environment, or their genes, or even, chiefly, their upbringing. Rather, he says, these people—and the underclass generally— have reached "the bottom" because of the worldview they have adopted. |
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| Op-ed | The Public Side of Private Love | Edward Hudgins | 2/14/2003 |
| Description: With American popular culture saturated by the theme of romantic love, one wonders, why something so profoundly personal and private is a public matter? |
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| Op-ed | We Must Reach for the Stars | Edward Hudgins | 2/3/2003 |
| Description: We should celebrate the lives of the heroic Columbia Space Shuttle astronauts even as we look for ways to allow private parties to be more involved in space ventures. |
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| Press Release | Reach for the Stars while Reforming NASA | | 2/3/2003 |
| Description: The tragic destruction of the space shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle should not deter our quest to make space and other worlds part of mankind’s domain. |
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| Op-ed | Character and Color | Edward Hudgins | 1/17/2003 |
| Description: In 1963 Martin Luther King called on us to judge each other not by the color of our skin but by the content of our character. In this op-ed on "Character and Color" I agree that virtues like rationality, fortitude and integrity are the path to achievement for all individuals of all races, but that many black leaders today have abandoned this standard and instead promote their own form of racism. Fortunately, more African-Americans now are embracing King’s standard, as should we all. |
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| Op-ed | Op-ed: Doctors Shrug | Edward Hudgins | 1/15/2003 |
| Description: Like a scene out of Ayn Rand’s novel 'Atlas Shrugged,' physicians in West Virginia have gone on strike, a strike is threatened in Pennsylvania, and across the country doctors are quitting their profession. |
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| Op-ed | Will Government Kill the Sugarplum Fairy? | Edward Hudgins | 12/20/2002 |
| Description: "Drop the candy cane, step away from the punch bowl." Is this the reframe we’ll hear some day from armed food cops as they try to prevent us from committing holiday health crimes against ourselves? The "war on fat" waged by government and predatory lawyers could mean food police checking our medical records at Christmas time to determine whether we can party hardy or will be confined to celery and carrot platters. More important for a happy New Year than losing fat is not losing our freedom. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Risk and Rational Planning | | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: A Life of One Own; Medicare's Midlife Crisis; American Health Care; From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State |
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| Center News | Sightings, November/December 2002 | | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: Camp Indecon, ALEC, FIRE, IJ, Web Blogs |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, November/December 2002 | | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: PBS Diversity Crazed history of science, CEO's and Recession, Religious Altruism and Terrorism, Khmer Rouge, MulitCulturalism |
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| Center News | TOC Launches ''The Objectivism Store'' | | 12/18/2002 |
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| Commentary | Two Jeers for Democracy | Roger Donway | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: Around the world, unchecked power is being transferred from the one or the few to the many, and Western commentators are applauding this transfer of power. They call it a democratic revolution, which it is, and speak as though it meant the coming of a freer world, which it does not. |
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| Center News | Investing in the Future of Freedom | | 12/18/2002 |
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| Center News | De Feis Joins TOC as Chief Operating Officer | | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: De Feis Joins TOC as Chief Operating Officer |
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| Center News | TOC Sets Time and Place for 2003 Summer Seminar | | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center will hold its fourteenth annual summer seminar at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts, from Saturday June 28 to Saturday July 5, 2003. |
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| Review | The Founders' Father | Edward Hudgins | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: Historian David McCullough was recently asked why America's Founding Fathers seem so qualitatively different from today's politicians. His answer was simple and direct: "They didn't just read Cicero, Cicero was part of them." |
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| Article | The State-Made Crisis in Health Insurance | David Kelley | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: The health insurance "crisis," like other problems of the health care industry, is the product of government interventions in the market. |
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| Article | The Inherent Individualism of Insurance | Stephen A. Moses | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: No matter how rational and focused we are, we remain vulnerable to unexpected events that can throw our lives into turmoil. We need a tool to help us mitigate the consequences of uncertainty in day-to-day life. Fortunately, we have such a tool: it's called insurance. |
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| Article | Allah Bless America! | Edward Hudgins | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: American Muslims who wish to secure their country against terrorism owe it to themselves and their fellow Americans to police their own communities. They should also contribute to America's culture of liberty by promoting religious toleration within those communities. |
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| Commentary | Two Jeers for Democracy | Tal Ben-Shahar | 12/18/2002 |
| Description: Around the world, unchecked power is being transferred from the one or the few to the many, and Western commentators are applauding this transfer of power. They call it a democratic revolution, which it is, and speak as though it meant the coming of a freer world, which it does not. |
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| Center News | TOC's Outreach Efforts 12/02 | | 12/18/2002 |
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| FAQ | The Objectivist Center: for Objectivity and Independence | William Thomas | 12/10/2002 |
| Description: What are the differences between the Ayn Rand Institute and The Objectivist Center, and why you should choose TOC over ARI. |
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| Op-ed | Creating Our Own Blessings | Edward Hudgins | 11/26/2002 |
| Description: A reflection on the nature of the blessings we celebrate at Thanksgiving. America is a free and prosperous country in large part because we have created our own blessings. It’s therefore right that we enjoy not only friend and family at this time but also football and shopping sprees as part of our harvest of the bounty of the season! |
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| Press Release | Miss Cleo Settles: Press Release | | 11/14/2002 |
| Description: Miss Cleo, the so-called "psychic tarot card reader" accused by the Federal Trade Commission of committing phone fraud, has agreed to cancel $500 million is customer bills to settle her case. |
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| Commentary | Moral Wisdom in Manhattan | Shawn E. Klein | 10/1/2002 |
| Description: After Ayn Rand laid out a rational code of ethics, her followers worked at justifying and developing its values and virtues. The next step is to learn how best to apply morality to our lives. That is the field of moral wisdom, and it is the professional concern of Randy Cohen. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, September/October 2002 | | 10/1/2002 |
| Description: Sick Days in Sweden, Urban League president Hugh Price on race in America, and Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act |
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| Events | August Advocacy Training in Albany | | 10/1/2002 |
| Description: Report on the August 2002 Effective Communication Workshop |
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| Events | 2003 Advanced Seminar Call for Papers | | 10/1/2002 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center invites scholars of philosophy and allied fields to submit papers for presentation at the Center's 2003 Advanced Seminar in Objectivist Studies. |
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| Events | Enlightenment Philosophers in the City of Angels | | 10/1/2002 |
| Description: Held from June 28 to July 6 at the University of California at Los Angeles, TOC's 2002 Summer Seminar assembled some of the world's foremost Objectivist scholars for a full week of exposition and discussion. Joining them were more than 260 people from around the country and the world. |
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| Review | How the Mind's Bureaucracy Works | Walter Donway | 10/1/2002 |
| Description: "You effortlessly delegate most of your thinking and decision making to the masses of cognitive workers busily at work in your mind's basement,' writes David G. Myers in his new book, Intuition. "Only the really important mental tasks reach the executive desk, where your mind works." But that process of bureaucratization has drawbacks as well as advantages. |
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| Review | The Parasites' Paradise | Howard Dickman | 10/1/2002 |
| Description: In Heaven on Earth, Joshua Muravchik gives us a history of the socialist movement since the late eighteenth century, told primarily through profiles of selected theorists, agitators, and leaders, each of whom exemplifies a critical stage or form in its evolution. A less-appealing crowd of bloodsuckers, congenital liars, airheads, and killers is not easy to imagine. |
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| Article | Free Speech and Postmodernism | Stephen Hicks | 10/1/2002 |
| Description: The argument that gave America free speech has a corollary: When we set up specialized social institutions to advance our knowledge, we should take special pains to protect the freedom of their creative minds. Why, then, do the greatest current threats to free speech come precisely from within our colleges and universities? |
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| Commentary | From the Silk Trade Route to the World Trade Center | Neera Badhwar | 9/9/2002 |
| Description: Today’s predators do not want to steal wealth but, rather, to destroy it and
its source, our freedom. To preserve the spirit of the Silk Road and the
World Trade Center, we must affirm and celebrate their goals of prosperity
and peace. |
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| Op-ed | The government's envy engine | Madeleine Cosman | 9/4/2002 |
| Description: Terrorist Information Prevention System (TIPS) raises serious civil liberties concerns. Do we really want a government program to encourage us to spy and snoop on each other like in some communist country? |
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| FAQ | FAQ: Objectivism and Family | Malini Kochhar | 9/3/2002 |
| Description: What sort of relationship should a person have with his family? |
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| Review | The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters—and Multiculturalists | Walter Donway | 8/31/2002 |
| Description: In his new collection of essays, Discontents: Postmodern and Postcommunist, sociologist Paul Hollander probes the connections between two apparently disparate questions: Why has the collapse of the Soviet Union (unlike the collapse of Nazi Germany) not produced academic studies of the relationship between totalitarian theory and practice? And: Why do Western intellectuals find their own societies intolerably unjust, given the totalitarian states that have flourish around the world in this century? |
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| Article | The Law in Wartime | Robert Levy | 8/31/2002 |
| Description: Objectivists agree that national security is a legitimate function of government, and even hardcore champions of the Bill of Rights concede that it would be foolish to treat civil liberties as inviolable when the lives of innocent thousands are at stake. But where should we draw the line when dealing with such issues as military tribunals, ethnic profiling, and national ID cards? |
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| Commentary | The Importance of Blacklisting | Roger Donway | 8/30/2002 |
| Description: Objectivism distinguishes between errors of ignorance and errors of morality, and between immorality and crime. As a result, Objectivists exercise moral toleration toward those whose ideas are innocently mistaken and political toleration toward those who immoralities are non-coercive. But the virtue of showing moral and political toleration does not mean Objectivists can employ nothing but arguments to weaken the forces that are destroying Enlightenment culture. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: The Law and the War | | 8/30/2002 |
| Description: All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime,
By William H. Rehnquist; The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, By Mark E. Neely Jr.; Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat the International Terrorist Network, By Benjamin Netanyahu; Militant Islam Reaches America, By Daniel Pipes |
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| Center News | Summer Seminar T-Shirts Still Available | | 8/30/2002 |
| Description: T-shirts from the summer seminar in Los Angeles are still available |
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| Center News | TOC's Outreach Efforts | | 8/30/2002 |
| Description: Twenty times, in June and July, TOC staff members got out the Objectivist message via television, radio, newspapers, and the Internet. Ed Hudgins, the recently appointed director of The Objectivist Center’s Washington D.C. office, led the way with more than three-quarters of the center’s media appearances. |
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| Center News | The 2002 Advanced Seminar Surveys Topics in Many Fields | | 8/30/2002 |
| Description: A comparison between the philosophies of David Hume and Ayn Rand constituted a major theme of TOC’s fourth annual Advanced Seminar in Objectivist Studies. Twenty-five students and scholars took part in the three-day meeting, which also saw discussions of art, ethics, and law. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, July/August 2002 | | 8/30/2002 |
| Description: Anti-Conceptual Mentality Versus Conceptual Mentality; Anti-Semitism; US Taxes. |
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| Commentary | Vandal Chic | Heather Mac Donald | 8/30/2002 |
| Description: Graffiti is metastasizing again throughout New York City. But if the New York Times’s culture critics are to be believed, New Yorkers should be thrilled. Every few months, the paper of record disgorges itself of an article breathlessly celebrating graffiti vandalism as a vital urban art form. |
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| Op-ed | Save NPR! Not! | Shawn E. Klein | 8/14/2002 |
| Description: NPR doesn't need government funding |
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| Op-ed | Responsibility, Not Regulation | Shawn E. Klein | 7/30/2002 |
| Description: In the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals, we need more
responsibility, not more regulation. |
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| Op-ed | Capitalism and financial scandal | Malini Kochhar | 7/23/2002 |
| Description: Capitalism isn't to blame for ImClone, Enron or Worldcom. But
it can save us from them.
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| Press Release | Release: Is Greed Good? | Patrick Stephens | 7/23/2002 |
| Description: Is greed good? Alan Greenspan vs. Ayn Rand. |
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| Op-ed | Time to Derail Amtrak | Matthew Curtis | 7/19/2002 |
| Description: Amtrak and the entitlement culture in America. |
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| Op-ed | A Moment Before Dying | Jim Peron | 7/19/2002 |
| Description: An ode to the goodness of humanity. |
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| Op-ed | One Nation Under. ? | Tim Richmond | 7/18/2002 |
| Description: God and the pledge of allegiance. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, June 2002 | | 6/30/2002 |
| Description: Boycott of Israel by scientists, vandalism as art, capitalism and vampires. |
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| Commentary | The Morality of Money | William Thomas | 6/30/2002 |
| Description: Ever since Ayn Rand wrote Francisco d'Anconia's soliloquy on money, Objectivists have proclaimed the sign of the dollar to be a badge of nobility. But the recent spate of corporate scandals has demonstrated the need to make certain distinctions regarding the ownership, acquisition, and expenditure of money. TOC's manager of research and training explains why. |
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| Commentary | John Q. in Canada | John Vincent | 6/30/2002 |
| Description: Ed Hudgins's review of the movie John Q. in the April Navigator mentioned the protagonist's demand for "Free health care for everyone!" Reading the review, a TOC member who lives in Canada thought it would be revealing to ask: "How would the plot of John Q. have played out here, where there is free health care for everyone?" |
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| Commentary | Looking into the (Ed School) Abyss | Bradford P. Wilson | 6/30/2002 |
| Description: The National Association of Scholars was invited to help Colorado determine if its teacher-education programs were carrying out the legislature's mandate to improve students' academic performance. The findings were discouraging—but the education establishment's reaction was dismaying. |
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| Article | You Will Volunteer! | Edward Hudgins | 6/30/2002 |
| Description: President Bush's USA Freedom Corps is supposed to be the vehicle by which every American devotes two years of his life "to the service of your neighbors and your nation." Remarkably, the administration's arguments for this program are based on philosophy, not pragmatism. Regrettably, the philosophy behind the program is the enemy of individualism, self-responsibility, liberty, and even benevolence. |
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| Center News | All TOC, All the Time | | 6/30/2002 |
| Description: Recent public advocacy activity: op-eds and radio appearances. |
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| Center News | Sightings, June 2002 | | 6/30/2002 |
| Description: Michelle F. Cohen, Andrew Stuttaford on Atheism, FIRE and The Koala. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Society and Assistance | | 6/30/2002 |
| Description: Losing Ground, Charles Murray; Poverty and Compassion, Gertrude Himmelfarb; From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State, David Beito; Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville. |
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| Center News | TOC Opens an Office in Washington D.C. | | 6/30/2002 |
| Description: On June 5, TOC held a gala reception in the nation’s capital to celebrate the opening of its Washington office, headed by Ed Hudgins. Among the 170-plus people in attendance were members and staffers of TOC, two congressmen, several journalists, and representatives from many of the pro-capitalist think tanks that operate in and around Washington. |
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| Op-ed | Israel’s right to self-defense | Tal Ben-Shahar | 6/21/2002 |
| Description: The Israeli occupation is self-defense, not aggression.
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| Op-ed | Government Funding vs. the Progress of Science | Malini Kochhar | 6/20/2002 |
| Description: The government should not be engaged in funding scientific
research.
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| Press Release | Gathering for Reason | Patrick Stephens | 6/18/2002 |
| Description: A Conference with a Difference: Over 250 will gather in Los Angeles for
a weeklong exploration of philosophy, freedom and individualism. |
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| Press Release | Bush’s community service plan is a bad idea. | Edward Hudgins | 6/18/2002 |
| Description: Bush’s community service plan is a bad idea. Personal responsibility, not charity, is the true measure of moral worth. |
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| Op-ed | Jihad comes to Harvard | Tal Ben-Shahar | 6/12/2002 |
| Description: Harvard’s Commencement speech was inappropriate and damaging. |
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| Op-ed | Islamism and Modernity; Lou Dobbs is right. | David Kelley | 6/10/2002 |
| Description: Lou Dobbs is right. Islamism is at war with Modernity. |
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| Center News | Job Announcement...COO | | 6/5/2002 |
| Description: Job Announcement: Chief Operating Officer for The Objectivist Center |
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| Article | In the Same Room with the Dying Light | Charles Tomlinson | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: Charles Tomlinson, a dear friend to TOC and many of its members, reflects on the end of life. |
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| Commentary | The Collapse of a Postmodern Corporation | Roger Donway | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: Enron's failure was not the product of capitalism, as the Left alleges, nor merely the result of crime, as the Right avers. It was rooted in the postmodern tenor of the firm's corporate values. |
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| Commentary | The Rachmaninoff Revival | Eric Barnhill | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: The reputation of the great Russian Romantic, who was Ayn Rand's favorite composer, continues to grow. |
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| Commentary | When Is a Fake a Fraud? | Edward Hudgins | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: The Federal Trade Commission and the Florida attorney general have charged Miss Cleo and her Psychic Readers Network with fraud. But the real problem is not with Miss Cleo; it's with her clients. |
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| Review | The Life and Mind of John Adams | Roger Donway | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: David McCullough's John Adams prompts our admiration for this Founding Father's work and character. C. Bradley Thompson's John Adams & the Spirit of Liberty prompts our respect for the man's merit as a political thinker. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, May 2002 | | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: EU and Xenophobia ban, shifting coalitions |
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| Article | The War against Modernity | David Kelley | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: Islamists do not hate the United States because of its international policies. Nor is their antipathy based primarily on the long-standing struggle between Western civilization and Islamic civilization. Rather, it is the culture of modernity—born of the Renaissance and Enlightenment—that has drawn the hatred of this distinctly contemporary and untraditional manifestation of Islam. |
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| Center News | All About Ayn Rand | | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: In May, The Objectivist Center launched a new Web site: All About Ayn Rand. |
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| Center News | Center Honors Jamie Dorrian | | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: Director of Administration Jamie Dorrian recently celebrated her tenth anniversary at The Objectivist Center. |
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| Center News | Summer Intern Chosen | | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: The center has accepted Malini Kocchar as TOC's summer intern for 2002. |
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| Center News | Hudgins Brings TOC Media Visibility | | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: New Washington director, Edward L. Hudgins, has been bringing greatly increased media attention to TOC and its views. |
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| Center News | August Speaking Workshop Announced | | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center will hold its Effective Communication Workshop at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, August 9-11, 2002. |
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| Center News | TOC Hits the Jackpot in Las Vegas | | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: TOC was a major presence at the Foundation for Economic Education’s first annual convention, held in Las Vegas. Drawing the most attention was a debate between David Kelley and conservative author Dinesh D’Souza concerning the moral basis of capitalism. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Islam and the West | | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, by Samuel P. Huntington; Islam and the West, By Bernard Lewis; The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years, By Bernard Lewis; Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923, By Efraim Karsh and Inari Karsh |
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| Op-ed | Star Wars and the politics of republics | Edward Hudgins | 5/21/2002 |
| Description: George Lucas has made a pretty film, but his understanding of
politics and republics belongs in a galaxy far, far away. |
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| Op-ed | The New Intolerance? | Edward Hudgins | 5/9/2002 |
| Description: Intolerance is more toxic to our republic than the nasty stuff
in cigarettes. The ruling by a co-op association in New York City
sacrifices tolerance for smoke. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, April 2002 | | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: The Skeptical Environmentalist and Bjorn Lomborg, Oscar nominated Sound and Fury - controversy about allowing some deaf people to hear, Evils of Communism, Terrorists attacks focus values. |
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| Op-ed | The best self-defense is self-defense | Tim Richmond | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: Germany’s Gun control laws made it easier for the school
shooter to kill. |
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| Center News | A Busy Time for The Objectivist Center | | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: This spring, staff members from The Objectivist Center will be traveling around the country -- attending conventions, sponsoring conferences, and even opening a branch office. |
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| Center News | A New Objectivism Course Goes on Sale | | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: The Objectivism Store releases The Essence of Objectivism, a new introductory course on objectivism on Ayn Rand. |
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| Center News | Objectivism Online: Beginning and Advanced | | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: Objectivist FAQs and the Logical Structure of Objectivism online. |
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| Center News | Ed Hudgins: Derail Amtrak | | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: Hudgins spoke to congressional staffers about Amtrak reform. |
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| Center News | Advanced Seminar Presentations Are Published | | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: Journal of Ayn Rand Studies publishes Advanced Seminar Presentations |
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| Center News | Sponsors Dinner | | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: Each year, The Objectivist Center hosts a banquet for our most generous supporters. Held in conjunction with the summer seminar, the Sponsors Dinner brings together our sponsors, benefactors, patrons, trustees, advisors, and their guests to celebrate the center's progress and to hear about our future plans. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: John Adams | | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, John Adams, John Adams And The Spirit of Liberty, Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams. |
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| Commentary | Hollywood Applauds Terrorism | Edward Hudgins | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: Less than six months after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, a major American film, John Q., portrays a terrorist as a hero. Ed Hudgins, director of TOC's Washington office, finds it a startling demonstration of how fiercely Hollywood is gripped by the premise that altruism justifies coercion. |
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| Interview | The House of Adams | | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: Richard Brookhiser's new book, America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918, examines the family that gave America four generations of great men. In this exclusive Navigator interview, Brookhiser points out what virtues made them great and what vices beset them. |
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| Article | Faith, Reason, and the Good Life | Ken Livingston | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: The media frequently announce studies that purport to show a connection between religiosity and happiness. Ken Livingston, a professor in the department of psychology at Vassar College, examines the data closely and comes up with some surprising hypotheses. |
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| Interview | Richard Warshak Previews Seminar Talk | | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: A clinical professor of psychology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center with twenty years of experience in treating trauma victims, Richard Warshak will present Heroes, Trauma, and Children to the 2002 TOC summer seminar |
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| Commentary | Democratic Tyranny | Patrick Stephens | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: Democracy is a valuable part of a free society, but, writes Patrick Stephens, TOC's manager of current affairs, democracy provides no guarantee of liberty. Indeed, in the Muslim world, democracy may lead to the imposition of Islamic law and a harsher tyranny than most dictators would dare to impose. |
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| Press Release | Community Service Press Release | Edward Hudgins | 4/22/2002 |
| Description: The President's community service plan is a bad idea. Personal responsibility, not charity, is the true measure of moral worth. |
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| Op-ed | Is Community Service Really a Good Idea? | Edward Hudgins | 4/22/2002 |
| Description: Bush’s call for service is a bad idea and indicates that
America may be morally bankrupt. |
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| Op-ed | To Be or Not To Be: Israel and ''Recognition'' | Russell La Valle | 4/18/2002 |
| Description: Israel does not need recognition from Arab states. It already
exists. |
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| Op-ed | Powell and Arafat: An Exercise in Futility | Patrick Stephens | 4/16/2002 |
| Description: Powell’s Mid-east peace trip to Israel is futile, and peace efforts will
continue to fail as long as we insist on treating terrorists such as Arafat as statesmen. |
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| Press Release | Privatize the Post Office: Press Release | | 4/5/2002 |
| Description: The Post Office is raising rates again. Do they really need to? Is there a better way? |
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| Excerpt | Logical Structure of Objectivism | | 4/4/2002 |
| Description: The 1999 draft (beta) of The Logical Structure of Objectivism (LSO) by David Kelley and William Thomas. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, March 2002 | | 3/31/2002 |
| Description: Muslim countries and the lack of freedom, liberal Ivy League professors, Economic Freedom, Top taxpayers pay the most tax. |
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| Article | The Dying of the Light | Richard Speer | 3/31/2002 |
| Description: After September 11, many Americans began to think more seriously about their own mortality. Richard Speer decided to find out how Objectivists in particular faced the issue of death. |
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| Review | The Decline of the East | Roger Donway | 3/31/2002 |
| Description: In What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis—the leading American scholar of Islam—recounts Muslims' desperate quest, over the last three hundred years, to discover the causes of their civilization's decline. |
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| Op-ed | Spring is a time for personal renewal | Edward Hudgins | 3/28/2002 |
| Description: Spring is a time for personal renewal. |
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| Op-ed | Treating like as like, Arafat and The Axis of Evil | Shawn E. Klein | 3/27/2002 |
| Description: Arafat is as much a part of the evil in the world as Saddam
Hussein, and should be treated accordingly. |
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| Op-ed | Liquidate Amtrak | Joseph Vranich | 3/22/2002 |
| Description: Liquidating Amtrak would be good business—preventing it would
just be bad politics. |
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| Events | Encouraging Local Activism in California | | 3/21/2002 |
| Description: William Thomas, TOC’s manager of research and training, visited California in January to bring the center’s Effective Communication Workshop to a West coast audience. |
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| Op-ed | Foreign aid to Africa won’t help, and it may very well hurt. | Jim Peron | 3/21/2002 |
| Description: Foreign aid to Africa won’t help, and it may very well hurt.
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| Center News | Seminars for Students | | 3/21/2002 |
| Description: TOC encourages students interested in learning more about Objectivism to attend the center’s summer seminar this July at UCLA. |
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| Interview | David Mayer Puts Lincoln on Trial | | 3/21/2002 |
| Description: David Mayer, a professor of history and law at Capital University, discusses his forthcoming summer seminar lecture, “Lincoln: Hero or Villain?” |
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| Center News | TAS Releases Audio Recording of Anthem | | 3/21/2002 |
| Description: TAS Releases Audio Recording of Anthem |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Middle East | | 3/21/2002 |
| Description: Suggested Readings: Middle East -- Empires of the Sand by Efraim Karsh; The Middle East, by Bernard Lewis; Cultures in Conflict, by Bernard Lewis; The Muslim Discovery of Europe, by Bernard Lewis |
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| Commentary | Robert Nozick and the Good Fight | David Kelley | 3/21/2002 |
| Description: Robert Nozick used the flawed methods of analytic philosophy to defend the classical-liberal state. But his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia is nonetheless a genuine classic in the literature of freedom. |
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| Commentary | Enron's Lessons for Capitalism | William Thomas | 3/21/2002 |
| Description: The multiple failures brought to light by Enron’s collapse offer a salutary lesson to pro-capitalists: free markets do not automatically produce justice, nobility, excellence. |
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| Op-ed | Is Miss Cleo a criminal? She's certainly a fraud. | Edward Hudgins | 3/18/2002 |
| Description: Is Miss Cleo a criminal? She's certainly a fraud.
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| FAQ | FAQ: What does Objectivism Consider to be Art (Aesthetics) | William Thomas | 3/15/2002 |
| Description: Just as language is distinctively human, so is art. Every human society has imagined and recreated its world in stories and music, in pictures and sculpture, and in derivative forms of art such as theater and dance. In fact, art is a distinctively human institution because it fulfills a vital need of human consciousness. And aesthetic issues can be analyzed objectively, like any aspect of reality. |
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| FAQ | FAQ: What is the Objectivist View of Law and Government (Politics)? | William Thomas | 3/15/2002 |
| Description: The Objectivist political theory has three main elements, all of which draw upon the classical liberal political tradition. First, the foundation of the political system should be the fundamental right to live free from physical force. Second, government has the strictly limited function of protecting rights. Third, government power should be exercised in accordance with objective laws. Capitalism is the politico-economic system implied by these principles. |
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| FAQ | FAQ: What is the Objectivist Position in Morality (Ethics)? | William Thomas | 3/15/2002 |
| Description: According to Objectivism, a person's own life and happiness is the ultimate good. To achieve happiness requires a morality of rational selfishness, one that does not give undeserved rewards to others and that does not ask them for oneself. |
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| FAQ | FAQ: What is the Objectivist Theory of Knowledge (Epistemology)? | William Thomas | 3/15/2002 |
| Description: Objectivism holds that all human knowledge is reached through reason, the human mental faculty of understanding the world abstractly and logically. Aristotle called man "the rational animal" because it is the faculty of reason that most distinguishes humans from other creatures. But we do not reason automatically. We are beings of free will and we are fallible. This is why we need the science of knowledge—epistemology—to teach us what knowledge is and how to achieve it. |
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| FAQ | FAQ: What is the Objectivist View of Reality (Metaphysics)? | William Thomas | 3/15/2002 |
| Description: Objectivism holds that there is one reality, the one in which we live. It is self-evident that reality exists and is what it is: our job is to discover it. Objectivism stands against all forms of metaphysical relativism or idealism. It holds it as undeniable that humans have free will, and opposes metaphysical determinism or fatalism. More generally, it holds that there is no fundamental contradiction between the free, abstract character of mental life and the physical body in which it resides. And so it denies the existence of any "supernatural" or ineffable dimension for spirits or souls. |
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| Op-ed | Keep the Al Qaida prisoners in Cuba | Stephen Browne | 3/6/2002 |
| Description: Keep the Al Qaida prisoners in Cuba
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| Op-ed | Ayn Rand in Retrospect | Edward Hudgins | 3/5/2002 |
| Description: Ayn Rand in Retrospect |
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| Op-ed | Credentials and Criticism in the Green Movement | Jim Peron | 3/5/2002 |
| Description: Bjørn Lomborg has been vilified for writing his book, The
Skeptical Environmentalist because he is supposedly unqualified to
write. But the history of the environmental movement shows that they
have never much cared about credentials when they agreed with the
ideology. |
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| Interview | Opera: The Next Objectivist Obsession? | | 2/28/2002 |
| Description: The Objectivist community has thrilled to the novels of Hugo and Dostoevsky, the plays of Wilde and Coward, and teh concerti of Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky. Will the Operas of Mozart and Rossini be next? That's the motive behind John Kerns's summer seminar course. |
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| Center News | At the Center, February 2002 | | 2/28/2002 |
| Description: David Kelley speaks to Junta and to Institute of Human Values in Health Care |
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| Events | A Feast for the Mind, a Delight to the Spirit | | 2/28/2002 |
| Description: For those interested in Objectivism, TOC's annual summer seminar offers the chance to spend time learning about the philosophy and its applications, in a community where your values are understood and appreciated. The seminar is a rich week of courses, lectures, workshops, and performances, ornamented with late-night discussions, fun and games, and the formation of friendships that can last a lifetime. |
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| Commentary | Two Cheers for John Tierney | Roger Donway | 2/28/2002 |
| Description: Why is the New York Times better on Tuesdays and Fridays than it is on any other day? Because on those days the paper's Metro Section prints 'The Big City,' written by the libertarian columnist John Tierney. |
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| Review | The Virtue of Profit and the Profitable Virtues | David Kelley | 2/28/2002 |
| Description: In Ayn Rand and Business, Donna Greiner and Theodore Kinni address the moral foundations that Objectivism provides for business and management. The result is a work that will be of value to Objectivist and buiness readers alike. |
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| Article | Beyond Good and Bad | Roger Donway | 2/28/2002 |
| Description: The virtue of selfishness has become a tough sell. National honors are being bestowed on firefighters who died by the hundreds trying to save strangers; on young americans killed while protecting their country; and on airline passengers who heedlessly threw themselves on would-be hijackers. In this climate, it is harder to make the case for a morality that says,
'Maximize your chances for survival and reap the rewards. |
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| Commentary | Switzerland's Most Wanted | Eric Barnhill | 2/28/2002 |
| Description: Just as government has long kept Pierre Boulez's career afloat, so it has finally granted him his lifelong wish to be declared a threat to bourgeois peace. |
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| Center News | New TOC Web Site Design | | 2/28/2002 |
| Description: After many months of work, TOC's Web site manager, Shawn Klein, recently unveiled the center's new Web design. The primary goal of the reworked design was to provide an attractive site that is easy to navigate and user-friendly. At the same time, TOC wished to add new contents and features, many of which will premiere later in the year. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, February 2002 | | 2/28/2002 |
| Description: Interesting or scary tidbits from the culture. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Business Success | | 2/28/2002 |
| Description: Suggested Readings: Business Success: Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land; James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest; The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848; Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. |
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| Op-ed | Enron: It's OUR Problem | William Thomas | 2/27/2002 |
| Description: The collapse of Enron is a problem that the market has to deal with, and we are the market. |
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| Center News | Edward Hudgins Joins TOC Staff to Open Washington Office | | 2/15/2002 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center is pleased to announce that it has appointed Edward L. Hudgins to launch a new branch office in Washington, D. C. and to serve as a senior writer and spokesman. |
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| FAQ | FAQ: Why is Objectivism a System of Ideas? | William Thomas | 2/8/2002 |
| Description: "I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows."—Ayn Rand |
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| FAQ | FAQ: What is Objectivism? | William Thomas | 2/8/2002 |
| Description: "My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." —Ayn Rand |
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| FAQ | FAQ: What is a Philosophy? | William Thomas | 2/8/2002 |
| Description: A philosophy is a comprehensive system of ideas about human nature and the nature of the reality we live in. It is a guide for living, because the issues it addresses are basic and pervasive, determining the course we take in life and how we treat other people. |
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| FAQ | FAQ: Why Does Anyone Need a Philosophy? | William Thomas | 2/8/2002 |
| Description: "You have no choice about the necessity to integrate your observations, your experiences, your knowledge into abstract ideas, i.e., into principles. Your only choice is whether these principles are true or false, whether they represent your conscious, rational convictions—or a grab-bag of notions snatched at random, whose sources, validity, and consequences you do not know, notions which, more often than not, you would drop like a hot potato if you knew." — Ayn Rand |
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| Op-ed | Valentine’s Day: A Day to Celebrate the Best | Tim Richmond | 2/7/2002 |
| Description: Valentine’s Day is a day to celebrate the best—both within our
selves and within our loved ones.
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| Op-ed | Drugs and Terrorism--they're not the same thing. | Patrick Stephens | 2/6/2002 |
| Description: The government's new anti-drug ad campaign is absurd and demeaning.
And it won’t work. |
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| Op-ed | Animal Rights and the circus | Scott McPherson | 1/31/2002 |
| Description: Animals are property and giving rights to animals is too silly – even for a circus. |
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| FAQ | FAQ: Virtue of Selfishness | J. Raibley | 1/30/2002 |
| Description: What does Ayn Rand mean when she describes selfishness as a virtue? |
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| Op-ed | The State of The Union and The Culture of Responsibility | David Kelley | 1/30/2002 |
| Description: In his powerful State of the Union address, President Bush gave voice to the two deepest truths of a free society: that the essential function of its government is to provide security, and that it depends on a culture of responsibility. |
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| Op-ed | A Child's Letter on the Education Bill | Edward Hudgins | 1/22/2002 |
| Description: A Child's Letter on the Bush-Kennedy Education Bill, as reported to Edward Hudgins |
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| Op-ed | Reilly Steals Home: A.G. ''deal'' with the Red Sox was simply extortion. | Shawn E. Klein | 1/17/2002 |
| Description: Reilly ''deal'' with the Red Sox was simply extortion. |
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| Op-ed | It's good to play god | Jim Peron | 1/16/2002 |
| Description: Technology and ''playing god'' make life better |
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| Center News | TOC launches New Website | | 1/13/2002 |
| Description: A brief description of the new TOC website. |
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| Op-ed | The benefits of industry--We're Living longer! | Jim Peron | 1/11/2002 |
| Description: We're living longer and better -- thanks largely to industry
and industrialization
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| Article | Romanticism is Dead! Long Live Romanticism! | Michelle Fram-Cohen | 1/11/2002 |
| Description: Victor Hugo wrote Ninety-Three to revive Romanticism. A century later, Ayn Rand wrote The Romantic Manifesto for the same purpose, and she included her "Introduction" to Ninety-Three as a key chapter. Michelle Fram-Cohen explains why it was the perfect choice. |
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| Commentary | Don't Debase Public Service | Roger Donway | 1/11/2002 |
| Description: In the name of 'national service,' our leaders have been talking about civil society as though it were the same as civil defense. Both enterprises are good in themselves, and libertarians should welcome both. But they will remain good only so long as they are kept separate. |
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| Commentary | The Intellectual as Barbarian | Roger Donway | 1/11/2002 |
| Description: Roger Donway writes that the Western assault on civilization can be traced all the way back to Rousseau's first Discourse, in 1750. But Norman Mailer's remarks on September 11 displayed both the continuing influence of that work and its cultural consequences for the West. |
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| Excerpt | The History and Creed of Islam | George Walsh | 1/11/2002 |
| Description: In his book, The Role of Religion in History, the late George Walsh provided invaluable information on the background, beliefs, practices, and history of a religion, Islam, most Americans are just beginning to contemplate. |
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| Events | UCLA Will Host 2002 Summer Seminar | | 1/11/2002 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center will hold its thirteenth annual summer seminar at the University of California at Los Angeles, from Saturday June 29 to Saturday July 6. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Victor Hugo and Romanticism | | 1/11/2002 |
| Description: Suggested Readings: Victor Hugo and Romanticism, including a biography by Graham Robb, Hugo's poems, 'Romanticism and its Discontents,' and 'Classic, Romantic, and Modern' |
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| Center News | What's New on the Web | | 1/11/2002 |
| Description: What's New on the Web for January 2002 |
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| FAQ | FAQ: Libertarianism and Objectivism | William Thomas | 1/11/2002 |
| Description: What are Objectivist views on Libertarianism, and what are the similarities and differences between the two? |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, January 2002 | | 1/11/2002 |
| Description: Interesting and sometimes scary tidbits from the Culture: the annual running of the Marine Corps Marathon |
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| Center News | TOC Promotes 'Objectivist Studies' Monographs | | 1/11/2002 |
| Description: TOC Promotes 'Objectivist Studies' Monographs to university libraries |
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| Events | Advanced Seminar Proposal Deadline Nears | | 1/11/2002 |
| Description: The deadline for proposals for the 2002 Advanced Seminar in Objectivist Studies in UCLA is January 23th. |
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| Article | In Memoriam: George Walsh | David Kelley | 1/11/2002 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center's staff has been saddened to learn of the death of Professor George Walsh, a trustee since the center's founding. |
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| FAQ | FAQ: Animal Rights | Damian Moskovitz | 1/5/2002 |
| Description: Damian Moskovitz answers the frequently asked questions, Do animals have rights? What is the Objectivist position on animal cruelty? What is the Objectivist position on vegetarianism? |
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| FAQ | FAQ: Objectivism and Religion | David Kelley | 1/5/2002 |
| Description: David Kelley answers the frequently asked question, Is Objectivism compatible with religion? |
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| FAQ | FAQ: Democracy | Damian Moskovitz | 1/5/2002 |
| Description: Damian Moskovitz and J. Raibley explain what the Objectivist view on democracy is. |
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| FAQ | FAQ: Homosexuality | Damian Moskovitz | 1/5/2002 |
| Description: Damian Moskovitz answers the frequently asked question, Is it moral to be homosexual? and what is Objectivism's view of homosexuality? |
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| Op-ed | Nelson Mandela Turns his Back on Sept. 11 | Jim Peron | 1/4/2002 |
| Description: Nelson Mandela Turns his back on the U.S. -- opposes war on
terrorism
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| Op-ed | Maybe we can smile, the environment is looking pretty good. | Jim Peron | 12/19/2001 |
| Description: Maybe we can smile, the environment is looking pretty good.
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| Op-ed | Urban Sprawl is just another name for growth and prosperity | Charles Tomlinson | 12/17/2001 |
| Description: Urban Sprawl is just another name for growth and prosperity
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| Op-ed | Dear Virginia, No There is No Santa Claus | Greg Perkins | 12/10/2001 |
| Description: A response to Frank Church's famous "Dear Virginia" letter --
one that's truthful -- and full of hope.
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| Commentary | The Underground Offers No Escape | David Kelley | 12/7/2001 |
| Description: The underground offers no escape from government, either for terrorists or for pro-freedom advocates. Technology alone can't support freedom or prevent government encroachments on freedom. Only reason and persuasion can. |
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| Op-ed | Human Cloning: When is a person a person? | Patrick Stephens | 12/4/2001 |
| Description: A detailed philosophical analysis of why an embryo is not a
person.
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Totalitarianism | | 12/1/2001 |
| Description: Suggested Readings on Totalitarianism to go with Brink Lindsey's article: The New Totalitarians. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, December 2001 | | 12/1/2001 |
| Description: The split over the terrorists attacks and the war. |
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| Center News | TOC Changes Brokers | | 12/1/2001 |
| Description: Those who wish to donate stock to TOC should take note of this latest change. |
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| Center News | What's New on the Web | | 12/1/2001 |
| Description: What's New on the Web December 2001 |
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| Center News | Last Chance for TOC Live! Tapes | | 12/1/2001 |
| Description: Last Chance for TOC LIVE! Tapes from the 2001 Summer Seminar on Johnstown, PA. |
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| Review | Visionary Companies | Tal Ben-Shahar | 12/1/2001 |
| Description: Business consultant Tal Ben-Shahar reviews Built to Last, which shows why the moral corporation tends to be the most profitable also. |
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| Review | The Roots of the West | William Thomas | 12/1/2001 |
| Description: In this review of Greek Ways and The Dream of Reason, William Thomas tracks the creation of Western civilization from classical Athens to the Renaissance. |
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| Article | The New Totalitarians | Brink Lindsey | 12/1/2001 |
| Description: The United States is not just at war with terrorists; it is at war with a new form of totalitarianism, according to the Cato Institute's Brink Lindsey. |
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| Center News | Sightings from Navigator 4, 11 | | 12/1/2001 |
| Description: Anti-Living Wage protests at Harvard |
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| Center News | Kelley Adresses Hartford Federalist Society | | 12/1/2001 |
| Description: TOC’s executive director, David Kelley, recently delivered a talk at the Hartford, Connecticut, Federalist Society. His next major talk will be January 11–12 at the Medical University of South Carolina. |
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| Center News | Internship and Fellowship Application Information | | 11/26/2001 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center offers summer internships and visiting fellowships for students, scholars, and activists to work on writing projects at our offices in Poughkeepsie, New York. |
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| Commentary | Remember: It's not 'Infinite Justice' | Roger Donway | 11/20/2001 |
| Description: Linking the war on terrorism to women's rights is wrong as a matter of tactics, because it is likely to backfire very soon. But linking the war on terror to women's rights is wrong on a much deeper level, the strategic level. |
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| Commentary | Civil Society Is Not Civil Defense | Roger Donway | 11/19/2001 |
| Description: The one thing government absolutely must not do is meddle with civil society, through groups like Americorps and Seniorcorps. Government must simply get out of the way of civil society, lift its regulations on private institutions, and cut taxes enough that people may support such organizations. |
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| Center News | Professor George Walsh -- In Memoriam | | 11/19/2001 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center's staff has been saddened to learn of the death of Professor George Walsh, a trustee since the center's founding. |
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| Commentary | The Justice of War | Patrick Stephens | 11/16/2001 |
| Description: Just War Theory. The aggressor -- in this case al-Qaedi and the Taliban -- is responsible for the loss of innocent life in a just war. |
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| Commentary | Choosing Sides | Roger Donway | 11/13/2001 |
| Description: The events of September 11 have changed the political landscape in America. Traditional political groups—progressive, liberal, conservative, and libertarian—have found themselves deeply split over the terrorist attacks and the war. |
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| Commentary | The Cipro Looters | William Thomas | 11/12/2001 |
| Description: William Thomas tells the story of the looting of drug maker Bayer for its anthrax fighting antibiotic drug, Cipro. |
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| Review | Taming the Animal Within | Damian Moskovitz | 11/9/2001 |
| Description: Damian Moskovitz, a recent Harvard University graduate, reviews Mean Genes. Though studying evolutionary psychology to help us improve ourselves is a useful tool, says Moskovitz, the two researchers who wrote this book commit bad philosophy and sloppy science. |
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| Commentary | A McDonald's in Kabul? | Shawn E. Klein | 11/9/2001 |
| Description: The exportation of American values is what threatens fundamentalists, not the exportation of our cultural products like McDonalds. |
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| Commentary | Towards a Leaner, Meaner Government | Roger Donway | 11/7/2001 |
| Description: What we need is leaner, meaner government. Therefore, the best contribution that civilians can make at this time is to take back from government the tasks extraneous to providing national security. |
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| Op-ed | Against Pacifism | Damon Root | 11/7/2001 |
| Description: Pacifists are actually pro-war.
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| Commentary | The Irrelevance of the Avant-Garde | Eric Barnhill | 11/7/2001 |
| Description: Internationally known concert pianist Eric Barnhill observes that composers can offer us nothing today, musically or intellectually. |
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| Center News | Navigator Web Special: Assault on Civilization | | 11/1/2001 |
| Description: Within a few days of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, The Objectivist Center created a special Navigator Web section called "The Assault on Civilization. |
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| Center News | Objectivist Center Updates Moves to Yahoo! Groups | | 11/1/2001 |
| Description: As of October, the center has switched to Yahoo! Groups as the provider for the Email Update Service. |
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| Center News | Sightings from Navigator 4, 10 | | 11/1/2001 |
| Description: Aristos sets up web page for painter Jose Manuel Capuletti - one of Ayn Rand's favorite painters |
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| Center News | Reid Wientge Becomes TOC's Director of Development | | 11/1/2001 |
| Description: A veteran of the financial services industry, Reid Wientge, has been hired to head up the center's fundraising efforts. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, November 2001 | | 11/1/2001 |
| Description: Interesting and sometimes scary tidbits from the Culture: Presidential Polls and Gallup Polls. |
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| Center News | Web Site Traffic Increases After Terror Attacks | | 11/1/2001 |
| Description: Since the attack, the average grew to just above 2,000 daily user sessions, with almost half a dozen days reaching 2,500 user sessions or more. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Evolutionary Psychology | | 11/1/2001 |
| Description: Suggested Readings on Evolutionary Psychology |
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| Op-ed | The Liberty Dollar Bill | Jim Cox | 10/31/2001 |
| Description: A proposal to put the U.S. Constitution on the back of the one
dollar bill.
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| Op-Ed | Manifest Destiny, 2001 | Joy Bushnell | 10/18/2001 |
| Description: America needs to bring its ideology to the terrorists, as well as its bombs. |
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| Events | Call for Papers Issued for 2002 Advanced Seminar | | 10/18/2001 |
| Description: The Fourth Annual Advanced Seminar in Objectivist Studies will be held in the middle of the summer of 2002, in coordination with TOC's Summer Seminar. |
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| Op-ed | Nobel Prize in Economics | Donald Cooper | 10/18/2001 |
| Description: Nobel Winners Good for Economics, Bad for Public Policy
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| Commentary | Community and American Individualism | Shawn E. Klein | 10/17/2001 |
| Description: TOC Website Manager, Shawn E. Klein explores the relationship between individualism and community, and explains why individuals can be united and still be individuals. |
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| Center News | New Monograph Published in Objectivist Studies Series | | 10/16/2001 |
| Description: Is Virtue Only a Means to Happiness? is the title of the latest Objectivist Studies monograph, now in print from The Objectivism Store |
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| Commentary | The Limits of Law | James S. Robbins | 10/16/2001 |
| Description: Now especially, writes James Robbins, international judicial tribunals are a bad vehicle for foreign policy. |
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| Center News | ECW Students Learn the Art of Public Speaking | | 10/16/2001 |
| Description: William Thomas, David Kelley, and Susan McCloskey spent the weekend of August 3-5 at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, instructing seven promising advocates of Objectivism in the art of public speaking. This was the summer 2001 Effective Communication Workshop. |
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| Center News | New Pamphlet Released on Rand's Political Thought | | 10/16/2001 |
| Description: The Objectivism Store announces the publication of "Radical for Capitalism," a new introduction to the political theory of Ayn Rand by William Thomas. |
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| Center News | Thomas Plans for Next ECW | | 10/16/2001 |
| Description: For those interested in honing their ability to present Objectivist ideas in public, there is no better source of training than TOC's Effective Communication Workshop. |
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| Center News | That Perfect Gift? | | 10/16/2001 |
| Description: As the holiday season approaches, marketing director Russell La Valle would like to remind all TOC members and supporters that Principal Source gift certificates are available and could be that perfect gift for anyone who loves reason, individualism, freedom, and achievement. |
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| Center News | Sightings from Navigator 4, 9 | | 10/16/2001 |
| Description: What Art Is?, Art Renewal Center, Allen Costell teaches, Libertarian John Buttrick appointed to Arizona's Maricopa County Superior Court. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Reading: Islamic Fundamentalism | | 10/16/2001 |
| Description: Suggested Readings on Islamic Fundamentalism. |
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| Op-ed | On Trading Security for Liberty | William Thomas | 10/16/2001 |
| Description: As the Administration proposes and Congress debates new laws to improve
the safety of our skies, our cities, and our factories, let us encourage
the principled, creative, and energetic defense of our liberty. But let
us also take diligent care that liberty remains our sovereign principle,
and our way of life secure. |
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| Center News | TOC 'Fellow Travelers' Prepare for 2002 | | 10/16/2001 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center's fourth trip abroad, this time to Tuscany, Italy, will take place November 7-15. |
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| Center News | Principal Source Prices Increase in New Catalog | | 10/16/2001 |
| Description: Russell La Valle has announced that with this year's annual mail-order catalog—"Winter 2001-2002"—Principal Source will be raising prices on a number of its products. |
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| Commentary | American Heroism | William Thomas | 10/15/2001 |
| Description: Does heroism mean sacrificing one's life to higher values? Will Thomas argues that heroism is based on a devotion to the values that support one's life. |
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| Commentary | Security and Liberty | William Thomas | 10/12/2001 |
| Description: Willam Thomas discusses the role of government in providing security and protecting our liberties in light of the September 11 terrorist attacks |
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| Commentary | Position Statement on Terrorists Attacks | | 10/12/2001 |
| Description: The position of The Objectivist Center on the September 11 terrorist attack is outlined. |
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| Article | 'It Was Like a Movie':The Atrocity and the Arts | Richard Speer | 10/12/2001 |
| Description: The terrorist attacks reminded many people of contemporary movies. That says worlds about the state of cinema, writes Richard Speer. |
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| Op-ed | Finding a personal response to the terrorist attacks | Shawn E. Klein | 10/9/2001 |
| Description: Finding a personal response to the terrorist attacks
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| Commentary | Government, Yes! Leviathan, No! | Roger Donway | 10/5/2001 |
| Description: Have the terrorist attacks of September 11 brought Americans around to a Left-liberal conception of government? Do many more citizens now believe that Washington should keep taxes high, provide the public with an ever-expanding array of services, and hire bureaucrats to take over private sector tasks? |
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| Op-ed | The Toxic Fallout on Campus | Damon W. Root | 10/3/2001 |
| Description: Anti-American sentiments spreading in U.S. colleges
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, October 2001 | | 10/1/2001 |
| Description: Interesting or scary tidbits from the culture. |
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| Commentary | What Will Happen Now? | James S. Robbins | 9/21/2001 |
| Description: James S. Robbins discusses the security and retalitory options that America has after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attack on September 11, 2001 |
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| Commentary | Unilateral Moral Disarmament | Robert James Bidinotto | 9/21/2001 |
| Description: Robert James Bidinotto explains why certain philosophic principles led the terrorists to committ the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and how philosophic ideas prevalent in America morally disarmed us from properly protecting our country from an attack like September 11, 2001. |
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| Commentary | The Roots of Peace | Patrick Stephens | 9/21/2001 |
| Description: Patrick Stephens explains that after the World Trade Center attack the American policy toward terrorism should be one of zero-tolerance and swift justice; and that American foriegn policy cannot abandon our allies or avoid interventionism. |
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| Commentary | Restoring Our World | Shawn E. Klein | 9/18/2001 |
| Description: Only through value-seeking can atheists get back to the business of living their lives after this horrible attack. |
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| Commentary | Open Letter to My American Friends | Jose Pinera | 9/17/2001 |
| Description: Jose Piñera shares his thoughts on the World Trade Center attack |
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| Commentary | The Assault on Civilization | David Kelley | 9/13/2001 |
| Description: David Kelley, Executive Director, comments on destruction of the World Trade Center by terrorists on September 11, 2001 as an attack on the symbols of the values of civilization. |
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| Op-ed | Burning Stupid: Bad Forest Management in the West | Charles Tomlinson | 9/6/2001 |
| Description: Bad forest management practices have increased the devastation
of fire on western lands.
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| Op-ed | A Tribute to Mister Rogers, A Long, Good Run | Donald Cooper | 9/4/2001 |
| Description: A tribute piece to Mr Rogers, legendary children's television personality. |
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| Article | Automobility and Freedom | Sam Kazman | 9/1/2001 |
| Description: The car has dramatically enhanced our ability to realize the fundamental human attribute of self-directed action. As a consequence, writes, Sam Kazman, it has also opened new roads to liberty, knowledge, and economic opportunity. |
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| Center News | Sightings from Navigator 4, 8 | | 9/1/2001 |
| Description: Michael Newberry's website, Art Renewal Center, American Society of Classical Realism, |
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| Commentary | Self-Judgment Days | Shawn E. Klein | 9/1/2001 |
| Description: Shawn E. Klein argues that the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur (September 18th and 27th this year) fulfill rational needs that Objectivists should find ways of fulfilling in their own lives; the need for ritual and remembrance, the need for moral self-evaluation, and the need to seek forgiveness and make reparations. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, September 2001 | | 9/1/2001 |
| Description: Interesting or scary tidbits from the culture. |
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| Center News | Rick Goad Leaves TOC | | 9/1/2001 |
| Description: Announcement about Rick Goad's departure from TOC. |
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| Center News | Frank Kirmss—In Memorium | | 9/1/2001 |
| Description: We note with sadness the recent death of Frank Kirmss Jr., 65, of Dallas, Texas, a generous supporter of the Center's work, an enthusiastic participant in its programs, and a man who truly exemplified the spirit of Objectivism. |
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| Center News | Advanced Seminar Brings Together Objectivist Scholars | | 9/1/2001 |
| Description: The Advanced Seminar is TOC's incubator for encouraging new scholarly work that examines and extends the Objectivist system of ideas. |
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| Center News | Objectivism Celebrated at 2001 Summer Seminar | | 9/1/2001 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center hosted its twelfth annual summer seminar from June 30-July 8 at the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown. |
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| Review | What is the West? | Roger Donway | 9/1/2001 |
| Description: David Gress's From Plato to Nato, disputes the old account of Western progress as a series of "Magic Moments" leading twentieth-century liberalism. But it disagrees even more strongly with the West's postmodern critics. |
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| Commentary | Updates on July/August Commentaries | | 9/1/2001 |
| Description: Following up on Navigator's stories about the function of the Internet in authoritarian countries; and the causes of the California electricity crisis. |
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| Commentary | Reckless Legislating | Shawn E. Klein | 9/1/2001 |
| Description: New York State has made it illegal for drivers to use a handheld cell-phone, on the grounds that such a phone distracts the driver. Not only is that bad policy, writes Shawn E. Klein, and not only is it a violation of rights, it points to a deeply disturbing relationship between American citizens and their government. |
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| Center News | A Call for Op-ed Writers | | 8/28/2001 |
| Description: We invite writers to submit op-eds to The Objectivist Center. If the op-ed meets our editorial standards, we will distribute the piece nationally and pay the author $50 |
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| Commentary | Faith and Funding: What Is the Root of the Stem Cell Controversy? | Patrick Stephens | 8/10/2001 |
| Description: The current debate over federal funding of embryonic stem cell research raises two basic questions: “Is it morally and legally proper to use human embryos for such research?” and “Should government funds be used for this research?” Patrick Stephens, TOC’s manager of current affairs, sorts out the issues. |
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| Letters | Letters: The Balkans (Aug 2001) | | 8/10/2001 |
| Description: In response to James S. Robbin's Commentary: "The Balkans: A Time for Principled Action" from the May 2001 issue of Navigator |
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| Letters | Letters: Art and Education (Aug 2001) | | 8/10/2001 |
| Description: In response to the Navigator interview with Alexandra York about art, education, and Ayn Rand. |
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| Op-ed | Anti-globalism and Nihilism | William Thomas | 7/25/2001 |
| Description: The recent surge of anti-globalism protests are examples of nihilism in practice. |
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| Review | From Ocean to Ocean | Frank Bryan | 7/1/2001 |
| Description: Frank Bryan reviews Stephen Ambroses's account of the building of the transcontinental railroad. |
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| Commentary | 'Living Wages' Are Anti-Life | Damian Moskovitz | 7/1/2001 |
| Description: The demand by Harvard University students that their university provide a "living wage" for the school's support staff are grounded in a fundamentally anti-life philosophy, reports TOC intern and recent Harvard graduate Damian Moskovitz. |
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| Center News | Two Works Are On the Way | | 7/1/2001 |
| Description: The research and training division of The Objectivist Center has been hard at work on two new books, which are now nearing completion. |
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| Center News | Sightings from Navigator 4, 7 | | 7/1/2001 |
| Description: Robert Levy of Cato debates the Tobacco Products Liability Project on MSNBC's 'Mike Barnicle Show.', Freedom Summit in Phoenix, AZ, IHS politopia, |
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| Commentary | Why Not the Best? | Donald Cooper | 7/1/2001 |
| Description: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's capping of wholesale prices in the west was not utterly mindless—the action was grounded in current economic theory. But a better solution was, and still is, achievable, says Navigator's assistant editor, Donald Cooper. |
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| Article | Blind Injustice | Eric Mack | 7/1/2001 |
| Description: Thirty years after its original publication, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice still has a great deal of influence, according to Eric Mack. |
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| Center News | TOC to Redesign Web Site | | 7/1/2001 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center site will have a fresh look and many new sections with expanded and improved content. |
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| Commentary | The Internet in Closed Societies | Patrick Stephens | 7/1/2001 |
| Description: The World Wide Web may not be the instrument of freedom that had previously been anticipated, according to Patrick Stephens, since it can often be censored as easily as a telephone. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, July/August 2001 | | 7/1/2001 |
| Description: Interesting and sometimes scary tidbits from the Culture: Slate Webzine, Robert Hanssen, Income Diversity Graph |
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| Review | The Essence of Hayek | Donald Cooper | 7/1/2001 |
| Description: The Essence of Hayek offers a representative selection of the economist's work. |
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| Op-ed | NASA is right to deny passage to ''Space-tourist.'' | Tim Richmond | 6/22/2001 |
| Description: Contracts are contracts--even in space. |
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| Letters | Letters: Lands of Liberty | | 6/14/2001 |
| Description: A collection of letters in response to the annual Lands of Liberty articles. |
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| Op-ed | There Ought to be a Law! | Shawn E. Klein | 6/13/2001 |
| Description: We don't need additional regulation to control reckless driving: even if people are on cell phones. |
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| Op-ed | Three Billion Dollar Award for Irresponsibility | Tim Richmond | 6/11/2001 |
| Description: Smokers should take responsibility for their own choices.
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| Interview | Alexandra York and ART | | 6/1/2001 |
| Description: Sidebar to main interview with Alexandra York |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, June 2001 | | 6/1/2001 |
| Description: Interesting and sometimes scary tidbits from the Culture |
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| Center News | Sightings from Navigator 4, 6 | | 6/1/2001 |
| Description: FEE hosts Jose Pinera, James Robbins appears on The Chip Franklin Show, Institute for Justice wins legal victory of Las Vegas limousine operators, |
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| Center News | At The Center, June 2001 | | 6/1/2001 |
| Description: What's happening At the Center |
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| Interview | Alexandra York on Ayn Rand | | 6/1/2001 |
| Description: Sidebar to main interview with Alexandra York |
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| Article | The Wealth and Social Health of America | Herbert Grubel | 6/1/2001 |
| Description: Stephen Moore and Julian Simon's new book, It's Getting Better All the Time, asserts that living conditions in America are continually imporving. Marc and Maria-Louise Miringoff present evidence to the contrary in The Social Health of the Nation. Herbert Grubel reviews both, and expains how America is really doing. |
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| Commentary | Whatever it Takes | James S. Robbins | 6/1/2001 |
| Description: James S. Robbins declares that George W. Bush's commitments to defend Taiwan should be applauded, not admonished. |
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| Commentary | The Poughkeepsie Accords | Roger Donway | 6/1/2001 |
| Description: If conservatives and libertarians combined forces, more victories would be won for freedom. Roger Donway sets forth a list of points on which these two groups might agree and then asks what policies would follow. |
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| Interview | Art And Education | | 6/1/2001 |
| Description: In this exclusive interview, Alexandra York, president of American Renaissance for the Twenty-First Century, argues that art is fundamental to a well-rounded education. |
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| Op-ed | Why not the Best? Op-ed | Donald Cooper | 5/30/2001 |
| Description: California energy solutions are all second best solutions.
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| Op-ed | The Balkans: A Time for Principled Action Op-Ed | James Robbins | 5/30/2001 |
| Description: Bring the troops in the Balkans home. |
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| Letters | Letters: Missile Defense (May 2001) | | 5/22/2001 |
| Description: Letters responding to James Robbins commentary on the need for a national missile defense. |
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| Center News | Mayer Serves on Jefferson Commission | | 5/1/2001 |
| Description: TOC advisor David Mayer was a member of the Scholars Commission on the Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings Matter, which released its final report in Washington, D.C., on April 12. |
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| Commentary | Postmodernism and the Jefferson-Hemings Myth | David Mayer | 5/1/2001 |
| Description: After sitting on a commission that set out to examine the Thomas Jefferson–Sally Hemings matter, TOC advisor David Mayer comes to several conclusions about how postmodern philosophy has corrupted the study of history. |
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| Commentary | The Balkans: A Time for Principled Action | James S. Robbins | 5/1/2001 |
| Description: Like most of Clinton’s foreign policy, his various forays into the Balkans were ad hoc, says James S. Robbins, a professor at the National Defense University. Bush has a chance to change that and take a more principled stance on foreign affairs. |
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| Commentary | Misbehavioral Economics? | Donald Cooper | 5/1/2001 |
| Description: A new field of economics, “behavioral economics,” is beginning to take hold, reports Navigator’s assistant editor, Donald Cooper. Though research in this field will help expand our understanding of economic science, many unintended political consequences may also arise from it. |
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| Article | The Math Wars | David Ross | 5/1/2001 |
| Description: Math, like most subjects, has been corrupted by new standards that do not emphasize the fundamental underpinnings of the discipline, according to mathematician David Ross. |
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| Review | Postmodern Medicine | James Lee Brooks | 5/1/2001 |
| Description: Psychiatrist Sally Satel has compiled a “horror file” of postmodern philosophy’s effects on medicine: PC, M.D. Reviewer James Lee Brooks says the harms exist, but reality will probably win in the end. |
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| Center News | Summer 2001 Public Speaking Workshop Scheduled | | 5/1/2001 |
| Description: The Effective Communication Workshop is TOC's greenhouse for developing the public speaking talents of the Objectivist community |
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| Center News | Kelley, Thomas Attend Cato University | | 5/1/2001 |
| Description: David Kelley and William Thomas represented the center at the Cato Institute's Cato University seminar held in Philadelphia March 29 through April 1. |
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| Center News | Sightings from Navigator 4, 5 | | 5/1/2001 |
| Description: Cato Institute luncheon featureing a Federal Elections Commission commissioner speaking on how campaign finance laws limit free speech, and David Horowitz discusses his activities on college campuses. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, May 2001 | | 5/1/2001 |
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| Center News | The Atlas Society Launches Operations | | 5/1/2001 |
| Description: After nearly two years of preparations, The Atlas Society—an organization for admirers of Ayn Rand's fiction—has begun its activities. |
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| Op-ed | Op-Ed: Let's Make Earth Day A Religious Holiday | Robert Bidinotto | 4/15/2001 |
| Description: Environmentalism shares all the features of religion, so why not treat it like one? |
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| Op-ed | Human Cloning is good for all of us | Patrick Stephens | 4/3/2001 |
| Description: Human cloning, like any technology, is a boon to mankind. |
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| Op-ed | Destroying Embryos is not immoral | Patrick Stephens | 4/3/2001 |
| Description: The embryos used in cloning procedures have no moral status. |
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| Center News | Basic Principles To Be Reissued | | 4/1/2001 |
| Description: The reissuing of the classic Basic Principles of Objectivism. The original taped course from the NBI days. |
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| Article | A Victory in Bratislava | Roger Donway | 4/1/2001 |
| Description: Side bar from Lands of Liberty 2001. |
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| Commentary | The Corruption of Democracy | David Kelley | 4/1/2001 |
| Description: It is not money that is corrupting American democracy, says TOC’s executive director, David Kelley. It is the collectivist philosophy underlying many contemporary views of democracy. |
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| Center News | At the Center, April 2001 | | 4/1/2001 |
| Description: What's happening At the Center |
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| Center News | Last Call for Summer Seminar | | 4/1/2001 |
| Description: The final deadlines for TOC's Summer Seminar 2001 are fast approaching. |
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| Center News | Sponsors Dinner Will Celebrate TOC's Future | | 4/1/2001 |
| Description: Sponsors Dinner Will Celebrate TOC's Future |
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| Commentary | Update on Missile Defense | | 4/1/2001 |
| Description: Update on Missile Defense |
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| Center News | The World of 'Atlas Shrugged' Is Released | | 4/1/2001 |
| Description: Scripted by The Objectivist Center’s Robert James Bidinotto, The World of "Atlas Shrugged" is an audio companion to Ayn Rand’s masterpiece that will soon be available in bookstores. |
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| Commentary | Cloning: Toward a New Conception of Humanity? | Patrick Stephens | 4/1/2001 |
| Description: Though science has not progressed to the point where a human can be safely cloned, things are quickly moving in that direction. And the debate over whether a human should be cloned, says Patrick Stephens, TOC’s manager of current affairs, will help shape the future definition of humanity. |
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| Article | Lands of Liberty 2001 | Roger Donway | 4/1/2001 |
| Description: Navigator’s fourth annual survey of world freedom looks at the current state of liberty in 192 countries. Along the way, it asks some questions that may help libertarians analyse the condition of freedom in their own countries: |
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| Center News | Sightings from Navigator 4, 4 | | 4/1/2001 |
| Description: Camp Indecon scholarships, Atlas Economic Research Foundation twentieth anniversary, Claremont Institute's 2001 Publius Fellows program, Pioneer Institute Better Government Competition, Intercollegiate Studies Institute Campus Outrage Awards 'The Pollys' winners, |
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| Commentary | Supply-Side Ethics | David Kelley | 3/1/2001 |
| Description: David Kelley, TOC's executive director, notes that Ayn Rand was the first thinker who proposed a genuine supply-side ethic. She recognized that achievement, not suffering, is the central fact of human existence. She honored the act of creating value above the act of giving it away. Pride of place in her moral code went to the virtues that make achievement possible rather than the virtues of benevolence to others. |
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| Center News | TOC Speakers Engage Many Audiences | | 3/1/2001 |
| Description: Different Speaking engagements by TOC Speakers |
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| Center News | Imagine a University Where People Share Your Values | | 3/1/2001 |
| Description: For students interested in Objectivism, the summer offers what the school year does not: the chance to spend time in an Objectivist university, learning about the philosophy and its applications, and living for a time in a place where your values are understood and appreciated. |
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| Center News | Sightings from Navigator 4, 3 | | 3/1/2001 |
| Description: Foundation for Economic Education, Ireland's free market think tank The Open Rebublic, Henry Hazlitt Foundation website |
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| Center News | Advanced Seminar Program Set | | 3/1/2001 |
| Description: The Advanced Seminar in Objectivist Studies is TOC's hot-house for encouraging new scholarly work examining and extending the Objectivist system of ideas. |
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| Center News | TOC Host Effective Communication Workshop | | 3/1/2001 |
| Description: The Winter 2001 TOC Effective Communication Workshop took place February 2-4. Taught by William Thomas, Susan McCloskey, and David Kelley, the intensive workshop allowed the participants to sharpen their skills at public speaking and at organizing and presenting Objectivist ideas. |
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| Review | Teaching Virtue in a Postmodern World | Roger Donway | 3/1/2001 |
| Description: Navigator's editor, Roger Donway, notes that James Davision Hunter's The Death of Character asks a very pertinent question: How can we teach morality in grammar school and high school when our college professors assert that no morality can be validated? |
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| Review | The Morality of Capitalism | Patrick Stephens | 3/1/2001 |
| Description: The newest critique of capitalism does not challenge its effectiveness, says TOC's manager of current affairs. It acknowledges that capitalism is better than any other system at creating wealth, eradicating poverty, and developing technology. But, the new critique asks, is wealth, mass affluence, and technology really such good things? |
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| Commentary | The Moral Necessity of Missile Defense | James S. Robbins | 3/1/2001 |
| Description: Homeland defense is the primary national security priority and ultimate moral requirement of any state. Today, says James Robbins, a professor of international relations at National Defense University, that means the United States must build an antiballistic missle system. |
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| Op-ed | Op-Ed: The Moral Necessity of Missile Defense | James S. Robbins | 2/22/2001 |
| Description: The government must pursue a missile defense program. |
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| Center News | TOC increase web presence | | 2/1/2001 |
| Description: TOC joins up with Grantmatch.org, Guidestar.com, Helping.org, and Igive.com |
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| Article | Objectivist Ethics in the Information-Age Economy | Nathaniel Branden | 2/1/2001 |
| Description: In a world of rapidly advancing technology, a capacity for independent thought is the quality employees need most. Because of that, says Nathaniel Branden, the virtues of Objectivism are becoming key factors in the workplace. In this article, Branden traces the history of work, and demonstrates how Objectivist ethics are used more than ever on the job. |
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| Commentary | Environmentalism: Don't Judge It by Its Extremists. | Patrick Stephens | 2/1/2001 |
| Description: The environmental movement should not be judged by extremist groups such as the Environmental Liberation Front, Patrick Stephens writes. Rather, environmentalism ought to be judged by the policies that the movement's mainstream espouses. One of those policies has been fatal to millions. |
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| Commentary | Will the Free World Lose Western Europe? | Kevin Hill | 2/1/2001 |
| Description: A consequence of the post-World War II years was the growth of peaceful cooperation among West European nations, and that has culminated in the creation of a quasi-federal system. Unfortunately, says Kevin Hill, this new system betrays the principles of liberty for which the West fought the Cold War. |
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| Commentary | Morality and Politics | David Kelley | 2/1/2001 |
| Description: A nation's political trends are governed by a host of factors, the most fundamental of these being the moral factor, according to TOC's executive director, David Kelley. In this commentary, Kelley illustrates his point by showing how morality permeates the seemingly pragmatic debate over Social Security privatization. |
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| Center News | TOC Gears Up for the Summer Seminar | | 2/1/2001 |
| Description: The center's staff have been working hard to prepare for the twelfth annual summer seminar. To be held in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, this year's seminar will bring together hundreds of people for a mix of education, social life, inspiration, and good fun. |
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| Center News | Kelley and Thomas Attend Conferences | | 2/1/2001 |
| Description: TOC's executive director, David Kelley, and its manager of research and training, William Thomas, attended the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in New York City |
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| Center News | Weekend Seminars in Objectivism | | 2/1/2001 |
| Description: TOC is now offering The Essence of Objectivism as a day and a half weekend seminar |
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| Center News | Summer Intershipes | | 2/1/2001 |
| Description: Summer Interships available at The Objectivist Center |
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| Center News | TOC Fellow Travelers Visit Fjordland of Norway | | 2/1/2001 |
| Description: TOC 'Fellow Travelers' Visit Fjordland of Norway |
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| Center News | Sightings from Navigator 4, 2 | | 2/1/2001 |
| Description: TOC Sightings: Camp Indecon in Colorado, Olive W. Garvey Fellowship from The Independent Institute, Stephen Hicks interviewed, Atlas Shrugged tied Lord of the Rings as best novel of twentieth century, Cato battling outdoor smoking ban in Frienship Heights, Maryland. |
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| Commentary | Support the Media's Right To be Disgusting | Roger Donway | 2/1/2001 |
| Description: Many recent Hollywood productions have little or no redeeming value, observes Navigator editor Roger Donway. Nevertheless, the media's right to produce and distribute violent and vulgar films must be defended uncompromisingly. |
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| Interview | The Roots of the Great Depression | | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: Many economists and political scientists have worked to present an objective view of the causes of the Great Depression. In this interview, noted scholar Richard Timberlake explores the way in which government helped cause and prolong the Depression by manipulating the money supply. |
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| Article | Ideological Differences and Political Evolution | David Kelley | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: With both presidential candidates advocating education plans, health-care plans, and tax-cut plans, and parading their religiosity, voters might be excused for believing that Election 2000 presented an arbitrary choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. In these two articles, however, David Kelley and Patrick Stephens argue that an important difference did exist between the philosophies of the two main candidates, while Roger Donway contends that a country seeking ordered liberty should not want transcendent leaps in its politics. |
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| Commentary | Decline Demands Philosophers, Not Censors | Roger Donway | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: Roger Donway shows why a society in decline needs philosophers, not censors, to preserve and restore its culture. |
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| Center News | Speakers Chosen for 2001 Summer Seminar | | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center is pleased to announce a partial line-up of speakers for its twelfth annual summer seminar. |
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| Center News | At the Center, January 2001 | | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: What's happening At the Center |
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| Center News | Sightings from Navigator 4, 1 | | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: Economist competition: 'The World in 2050' winner William Douglas is a TOC member. |
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| Commentary | Derrida Comes to ABC | Roger Donway | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: The anti-Enlightenment thought of postmodernists such as Jacques Derrida is beginning to surface in the mass media, as evidenced by a recent ABC news analysis. |
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| Commentary | Political Correctness Still Runs Rampant | Donald Cooper | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: Though political correctness is not much discussed anymore, it is quite prevalent on America's college campuses. In this commentary, Donald Cooper recounts two recent battles. |
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| Commentary | The Best and the Brightest | David Kelley | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: Despite a poor overall showing by American students in mathematics and science tests, America's future intellectual resource bank is well-stocked, as two recent major science competitions make clear. |
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| Center News | Passing the Torch: Stone Leaves TOC | | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: After nearly four years of service, Tom Stone turns the Web site over to Shawn Klein. |
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| Commentary | A Message from the Executive Director | David Kelley | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: This issue of Navigator sports some changes in content and layout. TOC executive director David Kelley explains the need for these changes and how they help further the Objectivist movement. |
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| Article | Why Johnny Can't, Like, Write | Susan McCloskey | 12/1/2000 |
| Description: Native English speakers often have trouble communicating their thoughts to others via the written word. This is due in large part to the way that writing has been taught in elementary schools. Susan McCloskey, the president of McCloskey Writing Consultants, details how fashionable methods of writing instruction have failed and offers advice on how to teach writing more effectively. |
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| Events | Fall Conference Celebrates Individualism | | 11/1/2000 |
| Description: On Saturday October 14 and Sunday October 15, The Objectivist Center held its annual fall conference, at New York City's Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square. Individualism: The Once and Future Reign of an Ideal was the title of this year's meeting, and the program featured talks on the political-cultural presence (or absence) of individualism, as well as talks on the application of individualism to one's personal life. |
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| Interview | The Restoration of Market Thinking | | 10/1/2000 |
| Description: An interview with John L. Kelley, author of Bringing the Market Back In, is a professor of history at Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. |
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| Letters | Letters: Markets or Morals (Sept 2000) | | 9/26/2000 |
| Description: Letters responding to a Navigator debate on whether markets or morals are more fundamental. |
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| Letters | Letters: Notes Towards an Appreciation of Manners (Sept 2000) | | 9/26/2000 |
| Description: Letter in response to Roger Donway's article on manners. |
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| Letters | Letters: Allotting Blame for Today's Health-Care Crisis (Sept 2000) | | 9/7/2000 |
| Description: Letters about the problems of the health care system |
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| Interview | The New Deal's War against Economic Recovery | | 7/1/2000 |
| Description: Interview with Gary Dean Best about the New Deal and economics. |
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| Article | The Embattled Life of Moreau de Maupertuis | Roger Donway | 7/1/2000 |
| Description: This article, which looks at the career of Maupertuis himself, indicates that the eighteenth century, though it may have been an era of light, was not always an era of sweetness, and not merely because it was divided into pro- and anti-Enlightenment factions. Sometimes, there were political divisions among the supporters of the Enlightenment. |
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| Review | What is Morality Good For? | Will Wilkinson | 7/1/2000 |
| Description: A review of Viable Values by Tara Smith. |
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| Commentary | Markets or Morals? July/August 2000 | Roger Donway | 7/1/2000 |
| Description: Continuation of the debate: Which is more fundamental: markets or morals? |
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| Interview | Speakers Bureau Interview: David Mayer | | 6/1/2000 |
| Description: An Interview with David Mayer. |
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| Interview | The American Enlightenment's Other Side | | 6/1/2000 |
| Description: Richard Brookhiser has emerged as the person most responsible for bringing about a popular awareness of the Federalists. He is the author of Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington and Alexander Hamilton: American. In this interview, Brookhiser discusses the importance of the Federalists to the American Enlightenment. |
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| Review | A Philosopher Reads Fiction | William Thomas | 5/1/2000 |
| Description: A review of The Fountainhead: An American Novel by Douglas J. Den Uyl. |
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| Article | The New Comprachicos | James J. Campbell | 5/1/2000 |
| Description: Pediatrician James J. Campbell provides us with his assessment of the National Reading Panel's April findings. He also explains how his interest in childhood education grew from some startling results from his work as a pediatrician. |
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| Letters | Letters: The Bought University (April 2000) | | 4/1/2000 |
| Description: Letters in response to a quotation in NAvigator's Soundings page that had to with 'The Kept University' and the invovlement of commerical businesses involved in education. |
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| Interview | Speakers Bureau Interview: John Bechtel | | 4/1/2000 |
| Description: Interview with John Bechtel. |
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| Article | Lands of Liberty 2000 | Roger Donway | 4/1/2000 |
| Description: Navigator's third annual survey of world freedom, and lack thereof. |
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| Review | Ayn Rand Through Two Lenses | William Thomas | 4/1/2000 |
| Description: A joint review of Allan Gotthelf's On Ayn Rand and Tibor Machan's Ayn Rand. |
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| Article | Does America Have a Human Rights Problem? | Roger Donway | 4/1/2000 |
| Description: A sidebar to the Lands of Liberty 2000. |
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| Article | Is Democracy Good for Economic Growth? | Roger Donway | 4/1/2000 |
| Description: A sidebar to the Lands of Liberty 2000. |
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| Letters | Letters: Pariah Politics (March 2000) | | 3/1/2000 |
| Description: Letter in response to 'Pariah Politics' by Roger Donway, which appeared in the March 2000 issue of Navigator. |
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| Article | Should Ayn Rand Have Been a Feminist? | Bryan Register | 3/1/2000 |
| Description: An examination of the relationship between Ayn Rand and feminism. |
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| Interview | CEI's Fred Smith is Marketing the Market | | 3/1/2000 |
| Description: An exclusive interview with Fred Smith, founder and president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, wherein we learn how CEI puts ideas into action to curb and reverse the growth of collectivism and statism. |
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| Interview | Speakers Bureau Interview: Stephen Hicks | | 3/1/2000 |
| Description: Interview with Stephen Hicks. |
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| Interview | Marketing the Market | | 3/1/2000 |
| Description: An outtake from "CEI's Fred Smith is Marketing the Market," an interview with CEI founder and president Fred Smith, published in the March 2000 Navigator. |
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| Article | Pariah Politics | Roger Donway | 3/1/2000 |
| Description: Because political campaigns are won by assembling coalitions, an increasingly common political tactic is to insist that one's opponent renounce the support of some sizable group. Typically, the reason put forward is that the views and behavior of the designated group make it so reprehensible that any association with it is morally unacceptable. |
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| Article | Benjamin Franklin: Enlightenment Archetype | Roger Donway | 2/1/2000 |
| Description: An article celebrating the achievements of inventor and statesman Benjamin Franklin. |
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| Review | The Author as Craftsman | Russell La Valle | 2/1/2000 |
| Description: A review of The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers by Ayn Rand, edited by Tore Boeckmann. |
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| Review | Chicken Soup for the Objectivist Soul? | Roger Donway | 2/1/2000 |
| Description: A brief review of the "Chicken Soup" line of books. |
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| Letters | Letters: The Moral Argument for the Death Penalty (Feb 2000) | | 2/1/2000 |
| Description: Letters concerning The Moral Argument for the Death Penalty. |
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| Article | Chris Sciabarra: Objectivism's Matchmaker | Roger Donway | 1/1/2000 |
| Description: A review of the many projects of 1999 of Chris Matthew Sciabarra, a visiting scholar in the department of politics at New York University. When it comes to introducing Objectivism to the academy, he is far and away the philosophy's leading matchmaker. |
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| Letters | Letters: Sense and Sensibility (Jan 2000) | | 1/1/2000 |
| Description: "Letters in response to Roger Donway's 'Egoism: Sense and Sensibility' where he tackles the issue if egoism is more a matter of prudence or entrepreneurship, calculation or imagination, sense or sensibility. |
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| Excerpt | How to Read a Novel | Susan McCloskey | 1/1/2000 |
| Description: An excerpt from Susan McCloskey's 1999 summer seminar talk that represents approximately half her lecture. |
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| Center News | Web Site Begins Q&A | | 12/1/1999 |
| Description: The launching of a new service to allow for submission of questions on how Objectivism might address particular issues. Answers are archived on the website. |
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| Article | You Can Go Your Own Way | Patrick Stephens | 12/1/1999 |
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| Miscellaneous | Sightings, December 1999 | | 12/1/1999 |
| Description: Atlas Shrugged and TNT; Journal of Ayn Rand Studies. |
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| Center News | Objectivist Studies Flourishing at TOC | | 12/1/1999 |
| Description: Advancing Objectivism: the scholarship and research activities of The Objectivist Center staff: including the Effective Communication Workshop, Cyberseminar in Objectivist Studies, the Advanced Seminar, and the Objectivist Studies monograph series. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, December 1999 | | 12/1/1999 |
| Description: Values of the underclass; Conservatism; stopping the growth of government. |
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| Review | Self-Help: Egotists and Egoists | Roger Donway | 12/1/1999 |
| Description: While a lot of the self-help movement is garbage, a substantial segment of the movement is genuinely concerned to help people improve their personal efficacy and sense of self-worth. Roger Donway reviews three works that are more or less egoistic in their orientation. |
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| Excerpt | Liberty — and the Business of Government | | 12/1/1999 |
| Description: Excerpts from one of Cato's Letters, by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon. The authors' thesis, which reflects the high value that the Enlightenment placed on (small-r) republican virtue, deals with the role of citizenship in the preservation of liberty. |
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| Review | Gladstein's New Companion Is a Charming Resource | William Thomas | 12/1/1999 |
| Description: A review of The New Ayn Rand Companion, by Mimi Reisel Gladstein. |
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| Article | Cato and the Enlightenment Mind | Stephen Miller | 12/1/1999 |
| Description: George Washington had it performed
at Valley Forge to inspire the troops. The most memorable words of
Patrick Henry and Nathan Hale are but allusions to its lines. Yet
Joseph Addison's Cato is now all but forgotten. Stephen Miller,
formerly editor of a newsletter on Soviet and East European Affairs
(published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty), tells the story of
the drama's rise and fall. |
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| Article | The Habit of Hope | Marsha Enright | 12/1/1999 |
| Description: An excerpt from Marsha Enright's lecture The Habit of Hope. |
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| Letters | Letters: Politics and Personal Happiness (Dec 1999) | | 12/1/1999 |
| Description: Letters in response to Patrick Stephens' article, 'You Can Go Your Own Way', where he claims that current electoral politics have little effects on one's personal life. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, November 1999 | | 11/1/1999 |
| Description: Liberty Tree; Gross-out comedies; optical fibers; An Affair of State by Richard Posner; Steve Forbes |
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| Review | Academic Interpretations of Ayn Rand | William Thomas | 11/1/1999 |
| Description: A review of the first issue of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies |
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| Interview | The Education of Richard Kossmann | | 11/1/1999 |
| Description: An interview with neuro-ophthalmologist Richard Kossmann |
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| Events | Reclaiming Sprituality from Religion | | 11/1/1999 |
| Description: A report on the 1999 fall conference. |
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| Article | Gifts, Gratitude, and Thanksgiving | Roger Donway | 11/1/1999 |
| Description: Gratitude—the appreciative acknowledgement of a favor, by word and deed—is a matter of justice.But what egoistic reasons exist for bestowing favors in the first place? |
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| Center News | Fall 1999 TOC Conference | | 11/1/1999 |
| Description: An Objectivist Center conference entitled 'What Should We Worship? Reclaiming Spirituality from Religion' |
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| Article | What Objectivists Can Learn from Young Jim Hill | Roger Donway | 11/1/1999 |
| Description: Objectivists should remember Jim Hill not only as building a transcontinental railroad, but for his other achievements too. |
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| Article | The Virtue of Pride | William Thomas | 10/1/1999 |
| Description: A comparison of the Objectivist understanding of pride with a humanist's more classical view. |
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| Review | Self-Help: The Classics | Roger Donway | 10/1/1999 |
| Description: A consideration of three classic works in the Self-Help genre. |
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| Article | Rand and Objectivity | David Kelley | 10/1/1999 |
| Description: An essay by David Kelley presenting Ayn Rand's ideas on objectivity. |
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| Article | A Peripatetic Career | Patricia Speer | 10/1/1999 |
| Description: A consideration of Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett Packard |
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| Excerpt | What Kant Wrought | Stephen Hicks | 10/1/1999 |
| Description: An excerpt from Stephen Hicks's two-session lecture on the Counter-Enlightenment. |
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| Review | A Humanist Ethics of Pride | William Thomas | 10/1/1999 |
| Description: A review of Restoring Pride: The Lost Virtue of Our Age by Richard Taylor |
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| Interview | Satisfying the Soul: An Interview with Michael Newberry | | 9/1/1999 |
| Description: An interview with painter Michael Newberry. |
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| Events | Summer Seminar Caps IOS Decade | | 9/1/1999 |
| Description: A detailed event report on the 1999 Summer Seminar. |
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| Events | Advanced Seminar Studies Philosophic Method | | 9/1/1999 |
| Description: A detailed event report on the 1999 Summer Seminar. |
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| Article | Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and Ayn Rand's Moral Triad | Roger Donway | 9/1/1999 |
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| Center News | Cyberseminar Returns | | 9/1/1999 |
| Description: Cyberseminar announcment for ''Continental Orgins of Postmodernism''--lead by Dr. Stephen Hicks. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, September 1999 | | 9/1/1999 |
| Description: America adopting more forbidden activities; Columbine; Is Religion good for you?; evolution. |
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| Center News | Aglialoro and Silk Join TOC Board of Trustees | | 9/1/1999 |
| Description: John Aglialoro and Roger Silk Join TOC Board of Trustees |
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| Excerpt | Why Man Needs Art | William Thomas | 8/1/1999 |
| Description: An excerpt from the forthcoming Logical Structure of Objectivism |
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| Article | The Fioretti of Self-Fulfillment | Roger Donway | 8/1/1999 |
| Description: Objectivists need to recognize and praise the lives and deeds that exemplify their philosophy's values and virtues. |
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| Interview | Regulation's Yoke | | 8/1/1999 |
| Description: An exclusive interview with one of America's best-known scholars of regulatory burden: Thomas D. Hopkins, dean of the College of Business at the Rochester Institute of Technology. According to Hopkins, regulation has shifted sharply from constraints on imports and prices to regulations in the environmental and risk-reduction category, with the latter nearly tripling its percentage of the total burden. Meanwhile, the total cost of environmental regulation, in constant 1995 dollars, has more than tripled, and now stands at 260 billion dollars or more, exceeding the cost of national defense. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, July 1999 | | 7/1/1999 |
| Description: Al Gore and God; Boys and adventure stories; Multiculturalism and feminism as ideologies. |
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| Center News | IOS Maps its Future | | 7/1/1999 |
| Description: The Institute for Objectivist Studies (IOS) becomes The Objectivist Center (TOC) and takes broader focus on cultural change. |
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| Center News | Editor's Column, July 1999 | | 7/1/1999 |
| Description: Comments from the Editor, Roger Donway |
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| Center News | Sightings, July 1999 | | 7/1/1999 |
| Description: Carolyn Ray has obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from Indiana University. |
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| Center News | Introducting The Atlas Society | | 7/1/1999 |
| Description: Introducting The Objectivist Center's newest division: The Atlas Society. TAS will focus on reader's of Ayn Rand's fiction. |
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| Center News | A ''Beta'' Version of Logical Structure Is Printed | | 7/1/1999 |
| Description: Beta version of Logical Structure of Objectivism is printed in a limited run for summer seminar class. |
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| Center News | Editor's Column, June 1999 | | 6/1/1999 |
| Description: Corrections and comments from the Editor, Roger Donway |
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| Center News | The Business of Running a Philosophy Institute | | 6/1/1999 |
| Description: What and who it takes to run the institute. A tribute to the work of Jamie Dorrian, Kristen Carlson, and Laura Lucey. |
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| Article | The Lessons of Littleton: A Letter to Teens | David Kelley | 6/1/1999 |
| Description: A letter to teens regarding what lessons we should learn from the incident at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. |
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| Review | Property, Liberty, Prosperity | Roger Donway | 6/1/1999 |
| Description: A review-essay of four recent works on property elucidate the place that property has held in the fields of philosophy, politics, and economics. |
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| Review | Of Water Buffaloes and Kangaroo Courts | Christian Robey | 6/1/1999 |
| Description: A review of Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses by Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate |
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| Center News | IOS Takes Communication Workshop on the Road | | 6/1/1999 |
| Description: Effective Communication Workshop in Chicago. |
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| Center News | Sightings, June 1999 | | 6/1/1999 |
| Description: Ayn Rand on cover of Insight magazine; Letters about Rand scholarship in Chronicle of Higher Education; Michael Newberry; David Mayer in The Freeman; Club updates. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, June 1999 | | 6/1/1999 |
| Description: Three Cultures; Success at Frederick Douglass Academy; Chemistry sets; Oliver Sackes |
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| Center News | The Stamp of Greatness; Logbook | | 6/1/1999 |
| Description: Logbook account of USPS introduction of the Ayn Rand stamp. |
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| Center News | Showing the Flag, June 1999 | | 6/1/1999 |
| Description: Will Thomas talks on Business Ethics; Robert Bidinotto gives some talks at Libertarian Party's state convention and at Suny-New Paltz. |
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| Article | Why Should One Act on Principle? | William Thomas | 5/1/1999 |
| Description: What are objective principles? How do they differ from whims and rules?
William Thomas addresses these issues in this short essay. |
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| Article | Joe DiMaggio: Baseball's Aristocrat | Donald Kagan | 5/1/1999 |
| Description: The shining image of Joe DiMaggio, even in a degenerate age, reminds people of a higher ideal, half-forgotten but impossible to ignore. |
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| Center News | Sightings, May 1999 | | 5/1/1999 |
| Description: Rand in Chronicle of Higher Education; Ayn Rand Stamp; Human Flourishing; Patricia Speer; Stephen Moses in Wall Street Journal; DoubleClick founder; local club news. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, May 1999 | | 5/1/1999 |
| Description: Milken and Mother Teresa; Investor's Business Daily and morality; egalitarianism and journalism. |
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| Center News | Showing the Flag, May 1999 | | 5/1/1999 |
| Description: David Kelley at Columbia University participating in panel session on Internet encryption policy. |
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| Interview | How Lockean Was the American Revolution? | | 5/1/1999 |
| Description: In this interview Huyler explains the coherence of John Locke's philosophy and how this philosophy influenced America's Founding Fathers. |
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| Article | The Stamp of Greatness | David Kelley | 4/22/1999 |
| Description: An article by David Kelley marking the unveiling of the Ayn Rand stamp by the US Postal Service. |
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| Article | Why Did Kitty Genovese Die? | Christine Silk | 4/1/1999 |
| Description: An article exploring the famed 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese. |
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| Center News | Thoughts That Breathe And Words That Burn | | 4/1/1999 |
| Description: Reporting on the the second Effective Communication Workshop. This workshop hones the logical and rhetorical skills of attendees. |
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| Center News | Summer Seminar Notices (1999) | | 4/1/1999 |
| Description: Information about the 1999 Seminar. |
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| Commentary | Markets or Morals? | Roger Donway | 4/1/1999 |
| Description: Which is more fundamental: markets or morals? |
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| Center News | An Institute Where Objectivists Study | | 4/1/1999 |
| Description: Stephen Hicks spends a year at Institute for Objectivist Studies (now The Objectivist Center) as a senior fellow. |
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| Article | Lands of Liberty 1999 | Roger Donway | 4/1/1999 |
| Description: Navigator's second annual survey of world freedom. Using Freedom House's 1997-1998 report on civil liberties and political rights (democracy), editor Roger Donway names the names of those who have (a relative degree of) freedom and those who do not. Along the way, he offers some speculations about why nations tend to cluster toward the extremes in the rankings of political freedom and toward the middle in the ranking of civil liberties. |
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| Center News | The Editor's Column, April 1999 | | 4/1/1999 |
| Description: Donway on the Soundings column. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, April 1999 | | 4/1/1999 |
| Description: Zimbabwe; Postmodern classical music; Harvard's Human Behavioral Biology; countering the myth of Native Americans ecology. |
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| Miscellaneous | Sightings, April 1999 | | 4/1/1999 |
| Description: Excerpts from Virtue of Selfishness, news from local clubs. |
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| Center News | Showing the Flag April 1999 | | 4/1/1999 |
| Description: Tom Stone's expansion of the website. |
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| Events | Join IOS in the Swiss Alps | | 3/1/1999 |
| Description: Longtime institute sponsors Charles and Susanna Tomlinson have arranged a spectacular fall educational and travel tour for Objectivists . . . in the heart of the majestic Swiss Alps. |
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| Interview | The East is Ready | | 3/1/1999 |
| Description: Ross H. Munro journalist and China expert warns: "Chinese [have been] walking through America's best nuclear weapons laboratories and picking up documents because scientists and/or military officers were trying to ingratiate themselves." Munro believes that China seeks to dominate Asia. Find out more, and how the United States should respond. |
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| Review | What Works against the Welfare State? | James Payne | 3/1/1999 |
| Description: A review of A Life of One's Own: Individual Rights and the Welfare State by David Kelley. |
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| Article | Debate: Abortion | William Thomas | 3/1/1999 |
| Description: William Thomas initiates a debate on the subject of abortion by distinguishing intrinsic views of rights from objective views of rights, and the rights of a potential versus the rights of an actual. |
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| Events | A Pride of Egoists? | | 3/1/1999 |
| Description: Summer Seminar 1999 Preview. |
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| Center News | Showing the Flag, March 1999 | | 3/1/1999 |
| Description: Various speaking and media appearances by David Kelley, Robert Bidinitto. Plus positive feedback on Objectivism Today 1998 and Kelley's book "A Life of One's Own". |
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| Center News | Sightings, March 1999 | | 3/1/1999 |
| Description: Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand; What Art Is; Discussion groups |
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| Miscellaneous | Editor's Column | | 3/1/1999 |
| Description: Reviewing A Life of One's Own |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, March 1999 | | 3/1/1999 |
| Description: Elia Kazan; nihilism and relativism; rap; tree hugging |
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| Events | An Embarrassment of Riches | | 2/1/1999 |
| Description: 1999 Summer Seminar Preview |
|
| Interview | Stephen Hicks on Post-modernism | | 2/1/1999 |
| Description: An interview with Prof. Hicks on the topic of Postmodernism, covering the role of Hume, Rousseau, Kant , and Heidegger, how the belief in science was destroyed in the eyes of Western philosophers and how that fostered post-modernism, and Hicks's surprising explanations for the popularity of post-modernism. |
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| Article | Debating the Nature of Fraud | Roger Donway | 2/1/1999 |
| Description: Ayn Rand held that only force could violate rights. Fraud, she said, is "indirect force" and therefore does not constitute an exception to this principle. In the November Navigator, Roger Donway set forth the case for Rand's position, providing a definition of the concept "fraud" along the way. In the February issue, three members challenge his argument and his definition. |
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| Center News | Sightings, February 1999 | | 2/1/1999 |
| Description: Camp Indecon; Reason Papers and Ayn Rand; Walter Olson, Enlightenment, and Objectivism Today 1998; Ayn Rand's essays included in textbooks; George Reisman on Clinton's impeachment; At the Salons. |
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| Center News | Basic Membership | | 2/1/1999 |
| Description: Information about basic memberships at The Center. |
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| Article | Market Research Discovers the Three Subcultures | Roger Donway | 2/1/1999 |
| Description: An article by Roger Donway on the growing evidence for the existence of three separate subcultures in America |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, February 1999 | | 2/1/1999 |
| Description: Conformity in society; Political behavior as extortation; Racial Preferences; Thomas Kuhn |
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| Article | Treasure Hunting for Children's Books | Mary Heinking | 1/1/1999 |
| Description: Mary Heinking, who schools her seven-year-old daughter at home, sets forth five criteria by which to choose books for the young, shows how to apply these criteria, and specifically mentions several dozen recommended books. |
|
| Center News | Robert A. Levy Becomes Institute Trustee | | 1/1/1999 |
| Description: Robert A. Levy, a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute, joined the IOS Board of Trustees last November. |
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| Center News | 10!--1999 Summer Seminar Announcment | | 1/1/1999 |
| Description: The announcement for the 10th annual Summer Seminar, held in Burlington, Vermont, July 3- July 10, 1999. |
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| Center News | Sightings, January 1999 | | 1/1/1999 |
| Description: Camp Indecon Web site, Leadership Institute alternative campus publications, criticism of Chandran Kukathas's Routledge encyclopedia on the history of philosophy article on Ayn Rand, Skirmishes. |
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| Center News | Walter Olson Praises Objectivism Today | | 1/1/1999 |
| Description: Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, has written an article praising Objectivism Today 1998 and its defense of Enlightenment values against both the pre- and post-Enlightenment. |
|
| Interview | Ayn Rand Swings! | | 1/1/1999 |
| Description: An interview with jazz musician Vincent Herring that includes a discussion of Ayn Rand's influence on his music. |
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| Center News | An Echo of Will Thomas's Latin America Tour | | 1/1/1999 |
| Description: Will Thomas interviewed by newspaper La Razon. |
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| Center News | It Was a Very Good Year | | 1/1/1999 |
| Description: Principal Source has a good year in 1999 with new acquisitions and expanded inventory. |
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| Center News | Showing the Flag, January 1999 | | 1/1/1999 |
| Description: David Kelley has been busy speaking out about Objectivism. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, January 1999 | | 1/1/1999 |
| Description: Hollywood vs. Truth; House of Mao; Bad analogy; WIC and brand names; judge blocks business |
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| Perspectives | Hope | David Kelley | 1/1/1999 |
| Description: A philosophical defense of hope and its expression in Ayn Rand's novels |
|
| Events | The Real Culture Wars | | 12/1/1998 |
| Description: A report on Objectivism Today 1998 - a conference on values in conflict - from the Institute for Objectivist Studies (now The Objectivist Center). |
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| Article | Libertarian Answers to Conservative Challenges | Tibor Machan | 12/1/1998 |
| Description: A response from Tibor Machan to three common attacks on free-market ideas from conservatives and neo-conservatives. |
|
| Center News | Full Context Celebrates a Double Anniversary | | 12/1/1998 |
| Description: The newsletter Full Context is celebrating both its ten-year and its hundred-issue anniversaries. Under the circumstances, Navigator is pleased to present Karen Minto's account of its history |
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| Center News | Good News, Good News | | 12/1/1998 |
| Description: Good news from several newspaper columnists on Objectivism Today: The Real Culture Wars. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, December 1998 | | 12/1/1998 |
| Description: Kennedy administration and antitrust, email as legal liability, Russian and Soviet history, Dennis Vacco. |
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| Events | Good New, Good News | | 12/1/1998 |
| Description: A report on the media attention of Objectivism Today 1998 - a conference on values in conflict - from the Institute for Objectivist Studies (now The Objectivist Center). |
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| Article | Objectivism in South America! | | 12/1/1998 |
| Description: A report on the week visiting fellow William Thomas spent in South America, representing the Institute for Objectivist Studies at talks, interviews, dinners, and meetings |
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| Review | Libertarianism and Punishment | Eyal Mozes | 12/1/1998 |
| Description: Outtakes from the review of The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law by Randy E. Barnett. In this outake, Mozes focus on Libertarianism and Punishment. |
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| Center News | Sightings, December 1998 | | 12/1/1998 |
| Description: Ayn Rand Stamp, Local Salons, IHS fellowships, John Ellis, Greed in New Zealand. |
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| Review | Must Politics Rest on Morality? | Eyal Mozes | 12/1/1998 |
| Description: A review of The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law by Randy E. Barnett |
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| Review | Helping Hands | Fred Groh | 11/1/1998 |
| Description: A review of Generosity: Virtue in Civil Society by Tibor Machan |
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| Center News | Russell La Valle to Manager IOS's Principal Source | | 11/1/1998 |
| Description: Russell P. La Valle joined the Institute for Objectivist Studies on September 22, 1998, with the immediate mission of taking over the institute's Principal Source division. |
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| Center News | A Life of One's Own Is Published ''Officially'' | | 11/1/1998 |
| Description: The Cato Institute published David Kelley's ''A Life of One's Own'' which concludes that the concept of welfare rights is invalid. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, November 1998 | | 11/1/1998 |
| Description: Taxi discounts limited, English versus American policing, Kantian morality and Christianity, Big Business: the persecuted minority. |
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| Interview | Banking, Regulation, and the Information Age | | 11/1/1998 |
| Description: An interview with IOS Sponsor Tom Cirillo on the intersection of revolutions in information processing and financial services. |
|
| Center News | Meet the Illustrators | | 11/1/1998 |
| Description: Introduction to the illustrators who do work for Navigator. |
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| Center News | Sightings, November 1998 | | 11/1/1998 |
| Description: Reason Papers, Camp Indecon, Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand, Objectivity journal, Fred Seddon |
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| Article | Force and Fraud | Roger Donway | 11/1/1998 |
| Description: Roger Donway sets forth what the standard account of force and fraud are and how it might be justified. What is fraud? What is "indirect force"? And how are we to explain the manner in which this "economic crime" violates rights? |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, October 1998 | | 10/1/1998 |
| Description: Fideism, Welfare, Russia not capitalist, Hong Kong under China |
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| Center News | Objectivism Today: The Real Culture Wars | | 10/1/1998 |
| Description: The 1998 Objectivism Today conference, to be held on October 24 in New York City, will strive to present Objectivists with a new vision of the cultural factions now contesting for dominance in American society. |
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| Article | Engineers and Integrity | Gordon Stubley | 10/1/1998 |
| Description: Gordon Stubley, a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, relates how skills such as innovation and management, as well as the virtue of integrity, are all required by the successful engineer. |
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| Center News | Showing the Flag, October 1998 | | 10/1/1998 |
| Description: Activities of the Center |
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| Review | Delenda est Carthago | Roger Donway | 10/1/1998 |
| Description: A brief review of hree historical novels about Carthage |
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| Center News | Sightings, October 1998 | | 10/1/1998 |
| Description: Navigator announces the forthcoming appearance of a special forum on "Rand and Philosophy." It also discusses a major article on Ayn Rand in a new encyclopedia of philosophy. Who is the author and what does he make of Rand's great novels? |
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| Excerpt | Two Strains of Altruism | David Kelley | 10/1/1998 |
| Description: David Kelley distinguishes two strains of altruism—self-sacrifice and egalitarianism—how they have been masked throughout history and the different political consequences of each, as well as a program by which Objectivists can meet the challenges of each. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, September 1998 | | 9/1/1998 |
| Description: Defending Contradictions; Faith and Reason; Pre-Enlightenment and Post-Enlightenment; Clarence Thomas; Libertarians and Conservatives. |
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| Interview | A Guide to the Microsoft Case Outakes | | 9/1/1998 |
| Description: Outtakes from the September 1998 interview with Robert Levy (9/98) |
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| Letters | Letters: Responsibility (September 1998) | | 9/1/1998 |
| Description: Debate over David Ross's controversial argument
that a biological father should have no legally enforceable financial responsibility for
the rearing of his child. |
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| Center News | Don Heath Leaves IOS | | 9/1/1998 |
| Description: Donald Heath, the institute's longtime director of operations, has resigned that position to pursue other plans. |
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| Excerpt | A View from a Height | | 9/1/1998 |
| Description: Excerpts from the remarks of IOS chairman Frank Bond at the sixth annual Sponsors Dinner in Boulder, Colorado, July 7, 1998. |
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| Events | Boulder! | | 9/1/1998 |
| Description: A review of the 1998 Summer Seminar in Boulder, CO |
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| Interview | A Guide to the Microsoft Case | | 9/1/1998 |
| Description: Robert A. Levy, a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute is interviewed on his views regarding the charges by the Justice Department against Microsoft. (9/98) |
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| Center News | Walsh Examines Religion's History and Practice | | 9/1/1998 |
| Description: IOS is pleased to announce that George Walsh’s book The Role of Religion in History has just been published |
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| Center News | A Star-Studded Conference | | 9/1/1998 |
| Description: Objectivism Today: The Real Culture Wars The Culture of the Enlightenment and its Enemies |
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| Interview | The Enlightenment Mind of John M. Ellis | | 8/1/1998 |
| Description: This interview with John M. Ellis focuses on his involvement in fighting the culture wars, the political correctness found on campus, and his most recent book, Literature Lost. |
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| Article | Wright and Rand | Peter Reidy | 8/1/1998 |
| Description: Peter Reidy examines the personal and intellectual ties between Ayn Rand and Frank Lloyd Wright. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, July/August 1998 | | 7/1/1998 |
| Description: Virginia Postrel and Forbes; Free-Market Environmentalism; Multiculturalism; secular humanism |
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| Center News | Sightings, July/August 1998 | | 7/1/1998 |
| Description: Ayn Rand in Scandinavia; Austrian Scholars Conference; IHS; Rent control; Does Atlas Shrug at University of Michigan |
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| Center News | IOS and Cato University | | 7/1/1998 |
| Description: David Kelley at Cato University |
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| Center News | Living Together--Independently | | 7/1/1998 |
| Description: Cato publishes David Kelley's A Life of One's Own: a defense of the ideal of a society in which men live together cooperatively, but independently. It is also an attack on the groundings of the Welfare State. |
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| Letters | Letters: Objectivist Collaboration (July/August 1998) | | 7/1/1998 |
| Description: A letter from Paul Cohen about the advisability of cooperating--or collaborating--with pro-freedom conservatives and liberals. David Mayer responds. |
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| Review | Sleepers, Awake! | Carolyn Ray | 6/1/1998 |
| Description: A review of The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life by Nathaniel Branden |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, June 1998 | | 6/1/1998 |
| Description: Kaczunski at Harvard; Energy and Oil; Liberty; Welfare reform |
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| Review | Brief Review: 'The Librarian Who Measured the Earth' by Kathryn Lasky | Mary Heinking | 6/1/1998 |
| Description: A brief review of "The Librarian Who Measured the Earth" by Kathryn Lasky |
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| Review | Brief Review: 'The Snow Goose' by Paul Gallico | Arnold Blaise | 6/1/1998 |
| Description: A brief review of "The Snow Goose" by Paul Gallico |
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| Excerpt | Antipodean Altruism | Lindsay Perigo | 6/1/1998 |
| Description: An excerpt from Lindsay Perigo's talk to the 1997 Summer Seminar where he criticizes accounts of libertarian advances in New Zealand. |
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| Center News | Sightings, June 1998 | | 6/1/1998 |
| Description: Center for Long Term Care Financing; Monadnock Online; David Duval; Reisman's Capitalism; Martin L. Cowen. |
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| Center News | Bidinotto Answers Queries On Memberships and Gifts | | 6/1/1998 |
| Description: In the past two years, the institute has attracted a large number of new members, and many of them have questions about their membership. What does it mean to be a "member"? How long does a membership period run? What benefits does a contribution bring? Is the institute increasing its efforts at soliciting contributions? |
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| Center News | IOS Initiates Monograph Series | | 6/1/1998 |
| Description: Announcing the launch of a monograph series in philosophy, psychology, and history. |
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| Center News | Departures and Arrivals | | 6/1/1998 |
| Description: Joanne Phillips leaves, Kristen Carlson and Jonathan Hayden start. |
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| Center News | Showing the Flag | | 5/1/1998 |
| Description: David Kelley quoted in Investor's Business Daily and gives a talk at SUNY |
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| Article | A Better Way to Run a Railroad | Frank Bryan | 5/1/1998 |
| Description: Frank Bryan discusses a railroad company deserving of our admiration. |
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| Article | Moral Tradition: Responsibility | David Ross | 5/1/1998 |
| Description: David Ross puts forth a controversial view on responsibility and fatherhood. |
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| Center News | Last Call for the 1998 IOS Summer Seminar | | 5/1/1998 |
| Description: A review of the highlights of the 1998 Summer Seminar in Objectivism |
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| Center News | A Slogan Is Born! | | 5/1/1998 |
| Description: Michael Milken was a greater benefactor to mankind than Mother Teresa. |
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| Center News | Livingston Publishes on Measurement Omission | | 5/1/1998 |
| Description: Ken Livingston, who is director
of the program in cognitive science at Vassar College, describes the research paper he has
just published--and why it lends support to Rand's theory regarding the omission of
measurements in concept formation. |
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| Center News | Visiting Fellow's Work Proceeds Apace | | 5/1/1998 |
| Description: William Thomas, the institute's new visiting fellow, reports that he is proceeding "full steam ahead" with his project of turning David Kelley's "The Logical Structure of Objectivism" lectures into a book |
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| Center News | Sightings, May 1998 | | 5/1/1998 |
| Description: Jeffrey Hoffman on Ayn Rand: Sense of Life; environmentalism and atheism. |
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| Interview | How to Run an Objectivist Salon | | 5/1/1998 |
| Description: Marsha Enright explains the success of the New Intellectual Forum, a Chicago-area Objectivist discussion group, and provides insights and advice to those interested in starting their own local group. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, May 1998 | | 5/1/1998 |
| Description: Alan Greenspan; GOP undercuts capitalism; poor research in social sciences; The art of smearing business |
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| Article | Lands of Liberty 1998 | Roger Donway | 4/1/1998 |
| Description: A consideration of surveys by Freedom House and the Fraser Institute on the relative degrees of democracy, civil rights, and economic liberty throughout the world. |
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| Center News | IOS Summer Seminar: The Focus Is on Students | | 4/1/1998 |
| Description: Nowhere else can students be exposed to leading-edge Objectivist thought, rigorous in standards and methodology, yet conducted in an atmosphere open to questioning and criticism. |
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| Article | Honoring Jefferson: A Life-Centered Philosopher | Robert James Bidinotto | 4/1/1998 |
| Description: A celebration of Thomas Jefferson's birthday with a focus on his most distinctive accomplishment. |
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| Center News | Will Thomas Becomes IOS's first Visting Fellow | | 4/1/1998 |
| Description: Will Thomas will be working closely with the institute's executive director, David Kelley, to create a book from the Logical Structure of Objectivism lectures |
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| Miscellaneous | Errata, April 1998 | | 4/1/1998 |
| Description: Corrections for recent January and March 1998 Navigator issues. |
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| Letters | Letters: Rand as a Philosopher (April 1998) | | 4/1/1998 |
| Description: John Robbins and Bryan Register debate the merits of Ayn Rand as a philosopher. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, April 1998 | | 4/1/1998 |
| Description: Alliance of Christian Right and multiculturalists; New organization for profressional historians; Hawaii Cruises monopoly; Benefits of Global Warming; Packard's fortune |
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| Center News | Media Spotlight on Objectivism | | 4/1/1998 |
| Description: Recent attention devoted to Ayn Rand and Objectivism by major media outlets, including The New York Times and U. S. News and World Report. |
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| Letters | Letters: Aristotle as a Scientist (April 1998) | Susan Dawn Wake | 4/1/1998 |
| Description: An exchange between professors Susan Dawn Wake and Alan Charles Kors following Kor's interview The Philosophy of the Enlightenment |
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| Interview | Fulfilling the Enlightenment | | 4/1/1998 |
| Description: An interview with David N. Mayer, a professor of both law and history at Capital University, in which he fields questions on the moral basis of the ideals of the Founding Fathers, which authors they relied on when seeking guidance on fundamental political issues, and many more. |
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| Center News | Sightings, April 1998 | | 4/1/1998 |
| Description: David Kelley letter to the editor of New York Times regarding review of Journals of Ayn Rand |
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| Center News | Bidinotto Builds Bridges to Libertarians | | 3/1/1998 |
| Description: An account of Robert Bidinotto's highly successful talk in Washington, D.C.: 'Building Bridges between Objectivists and Libertarians' |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, March 1998 | | 3/1/1998 |
| Description: Software Publishers Association; Microsoft; Humanism and Objectivism; Victimhood in Britian |
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| Center News | Sightings, March 1998 | | 3/1/1998 |
| Description: Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life; Jeff Scott on Stockholders and stakeholders |
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| Review | Brief Review: 'The Ides of March' by Thornton Wilder | Walter Donway | 3/1/1998 |
| Description: A brief review of "The Ides of March" by Thornton Wilder |
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| Events | Living in a Community of Individualists | | 3/1/1998 |
| Description: A description of how the IOS Summer Seminar provides an experience of what it means to be an Objectivist—and of what it means to live, however briefly, in a thriving Objectivist community |
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| Article | A Doctor Looks at Assisted Suicide | Todd Goldberg | 3/1/1998 |
| Description: Geriatrician and professor of medicine Todd Goldberg examines the legal, moral, and prudential considerations surrounding the question of suicide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. |
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| Center News | Greed: The Impact Statement | | 3/1/1998 |
| Description: An account of the institute's promotional efforts and at the response to the John Stossel, ABC show Greed. |
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| Review | Autobiography of an Idea | David Kelley | 2/1/1998 |
| Description: A review of Journals of Ayn Rand edited by David Harriman |
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| Article | Is it Nobler to Give than to Create? | David Kelley | 2/1/1998 |
| Description: David Kelley's article analyzing the ethical difference between giving and creating, arguing that creating is far nobler. |
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| Excerpt | Excerpts from Greed | | 2/1/1998 |
| Description: Excerpts from ABC's Greed |
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| Article | Nourishing the Mind, Restoring the Spirit | | 2/1/1998 |
| Description: Preview of the ninth annual Summer Seminar in Boulder. |
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| Center News | Kelley on Reflects on Stossel's Greed | | 2/1/1998 |
| Description: David Kelley recalls how John Stossel's Greed came about and how the show that he saw on television appeared from his perspective. |
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| Article | The Moral Tradition: The Concept of Loyalty | Roger Donway | 2/1/1998 |
| Description: A short Moral Tradition column that asks the question "What are the facts of reality that give rise to the concept of 'loyalty?'" |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, February 1998 | | 2/1/1998 |
| Description: Institute for Field-Being; Mr Magoo and National Federation of the Blind; Utne Reader on advertising; Buchan on Money; 1996 Welfare law, teacher evaluations. |
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| Letters | Letters: Family Values or Evil (Jan 1998) | | 1/1/1998 |
| Description: Robert Tinney and David Kelley debate: Family Values or Evil? |
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| Center News | IOS Growth Surged in 1997 | | 1/1/1998 |
| Description: Details of the remarkable 1997 growth |
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| Center News | Neal Goldman Is Named to IOS's Board of Trustees | | 1/1/1998 |
| Description: Neal I. Goldman, president and founder of Manhattan-based Goldman Capital Management, Inc., was appointed to the IOS Board of Trustees in November 1997. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, January 1998 | | 1/1/1998 |
| Description: Angels in Times Herald-Record, America Works, Soviet Gulag, Objectivists are not Conservatives, Buddhist monks. |
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| Center News | Sightings, January 1998 | | 1/1/1998 |
| Description: News on James Robbins and Larry Sechrest |
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| Center News | International Libertarian Group Hails Bidinotto | | 1/1/1998 |
| Description: International Society for Individual Liberty (ISIL) lavished praise on the talk given at ISIL's 1997 Rome conference by Robert Bidinotto |
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| Interview | Litigating for Liberty | Scott Bullock | 1/1/1998 |
| Description: Institute for Justice staff lawyer Scott Bullock recounts his group's goals and victories and makes recommendations for those who are interested in breaking through the false dichotomy in constitutional law of liberal-activism versus conservative-originalism. |
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| Review | The Beacon at Alexandria, By Gillian Bradshaw | William Thomas | 12/1/1997 |
| Description: William Thomas recommends a novel set in the late Roman Empire and featuring a heroine who disguises herself as a eunuch in order to become a physician--'an exciting tale that celebrates individualism, courage, and professional competence. |
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| Review | The Last of the Wine, By Mary Renault | Roger Donway | 12/1/1997 |
| Description: Mary Renault brings Plato's dialogues alive in The Last of the Wine. |
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| Events | Atlas Shrugged: The Fortieth Anniversary Event Report | | 11/1/1997 |
| Description: A report on the celebration of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged held in 1997, cosponsored by the Institute for Objectivist Studies (now The Objectivist Center) and the Cato Institute. |
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| Interview | The Philosophy of the Enlightenment | | 11/1/1997 |
| Description: Alan Charles Kors, a history professor at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the West's most rational and individualist era. How did the age view God, free will, reason, self-interest, liberty, and the arts? What did the Enlightenment think of the Renaissance and of Aristotle? |
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| Review | Has Objectivism Been Refuted? | Bryan Register | 11/1/1997 |
| Description: A review of Without a Prayer: Ayn Rand and the Close of Her System by John Robbins. |
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| Center News | Sightings, November 1997 | | 11/1/1997 |
| Description: Kelly Rogers, Chris Sciabarra, Tibor Machan, Alan Greenspan, William Dale |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, November 1997 | | 11/1/1997 |
| Description: Items that reveal the state of the culture, in America or the world |
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| Article | The Moral Tradition: Marriage | Roger Donway | 11/1/1997 |
| Description: "What are the facts of reality that give rise to the concept of marriage? And why do people vow to love one another when they wed? |
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| Center News | Sightings, October 1997 | | 10/1/1997 |
| Description: Georgia Representatives William Clark; IHS, We The Living Optioned, Cato Institute, Atlas Shrugged Media Attention |
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| Letters | Letters: Libertarianism and Abelard and Heloise (October 1997) | | 10/1/1997 |
| Description: Libertarianism and Nathaniel Branden recommends the play, Abelard and Heloise, which he calls the most magnificent written in this century. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, October 1997 | | 10/1/1997 |
| Description: Mind/Body Dichotomy at NIH, Martin Gardner's Theism, Sharpe's Tiger, British National Lottery, Real African-Americans. |
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| Events | Third Generation Gathers | | 10/1/1997 |
| Description: Report on the IOS/Cato conference "Atlas and the World," tells the stories of the participants and how they found Objectivism amid a hostile world. |
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| Article | The Culture Contemplates Freedom | Roger Donway | 10/1/1997 |
| Description: An analysis of the misinterpretations a |
