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A Romantic Manifesto

Those who love Ayn Rand 's novels have searched, with little result, for works that are similar to Rand's in both ideas and essential

Aug 18, 2010
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5 Min.
Das Liebeslied von Alexander Pope

Denkt man an die Literatur der Aufklärung (mit Ausnahme des neu aufkommenden Romans), so denkt man an einstmals lebendige Formen, die auf dem Trockenen sitzen.

17. August 2010
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6 Min.
Mozart's Don Giovanni: An Enlightenment Hero?

When I first encountered Don Giovanni 30 years ago, I was struck by the political, social, and philosophical messages in the work...

Aug 13, 2010
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John Kerns
10 Min.
The Victorian Atlas

January, 2004 -- Inventors are of two sorts. The first says: "Here is a principle. How can it be used?" The second says: "Here is a problem

Aug 12, 2010
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3 Min.
Cara Ellison verteidigt Atlas

Cara Ellison is one of the very few bloggers who defends fallen businessmen. She is particularly passionate about Enron, where she worked...

Aug 7, 2010
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2 Min.
Lives and Lessons for a Museum of Capitalism

July/August 2003 -- While collecting entries for this issue's "Cultural Calendar," my thoughts returned to David Kelley's article "For a

Aug 6, 2010
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5 Min.
Interview mit Charles Murray

April 2004 -- Anmerkung des Herausgebers: Charles Murray ist der W.H. Brady-Stipendiat für Kultur und Freiheit am American Enterprise Institute in Washi...

5. August 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
9 Min.
If You Discover Insider Trading, Can You Trade on Your Discovery?

It seems that SMARTS Software , developed in part by Professor Mike Aitken , has now been sold to 150 brokers worldwide who use “its...

Aug 4, 2010
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2 Min.
Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment

During the fourth century B.C.—we don't know exactly when—a man, a resident of Athens, a student and teacher of philosophy, changed the worl

Aug 4, 2010
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10 Min.
Warum sind Sportfans so voreingenommen?

12. Juni 2010 - Der Juni ist ein wichtiger Monat für Sportfans. Tennisfans haben die French Open, Basketballfans die NBA-Finals und Eishockeyfans die

Aug 3, 2010
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Bradley Doucet
5 Min.
Wyly Update: Insider-Trading Charge Is "Edgy"

I am always surprised to find a report more sympathetic than I am to businessmen facing legal persecution--and when the report comes from

Jul 31, 2010
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2 Min.
Why Is Payola Illegal? The Univision Case

It seems that Stanley Kurtz has an interesting book coming out this fall: Radical-in-Chief . Even before publication, it is provoking some

Jul 30, 2010
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2 Min.
The Collapse of a Postmodern Corporation

May 2002-- On December 2, 2001, Enron Corporation filed for bankruptcy. With the company's assets then estimated at $62 billion, it was the

Jul 12, 2010
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8 Min.
War Cassano "der Mann, der die Welt zum Einsturz brachte"?

AIG. Was Joe Cassano of AIG “the man who crashed the world” as Michael Lewis proclaimed , and as other anti-capitalists such as Gretchen

Jul 11, 2010
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2 Min.
Micro-Financing: Profit vs. Altruism

Muhammad Yunus, who founded Bangladesh's Grameen Bank in 1983, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his promotion of micro-financing, and..

Jul 11, 2010
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2 Min.
Former KGB Officer Cites Soviet Plan to Sabotage D.C.

KaluginWASHINGTON, D.C. July 9, 2010 — In the mid-1960s the Soviets planted a "sleeper" agent in Washington, D.C. whose main "job" was to "

Jul 10, 2010
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2 Min.
Michael Dell Passes the Apple Test

Tom Kirkendall, of the always illuminating “Houston’s Clear Thinkers” blog, writes about the legal troubles at Dell and founder Michael Dell

Jul 8, 2010
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3 Min.
Ayn Rands Hymne: Eine Würdigung

Equality 7-2521, the hero of Anthem, is twenty-one years old when he escapes to freedom from a totalitarian state. The author of Anthem made

7. Juli 2010
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Stephen Cox
10 Min.
Frank Lloyd Wright und Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand, die nie religiös war, war so stark spirituell wie jede andere Schriftstellerin; sie verstand es, auf eine durch und durch irdische Weise zu diesen Sehnsüchten zu sprechen...

7. Juli 2010
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Peter Reidy
10 Min.
Die Hauptcharaktere von The Fountainhead verstehen

Ayn Rands Roman "The Fountainhead" schildert eindrucksvoll und glaubwürdig, wie wichtig moralische Integrität für die Erhaltung der persönlichen Unabhängigkeit ist.

7. Juli 2010
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Robert James Bidinotto
3 Min.

Promovemos el objetivismo abierto: la filosofía de la razón, el logro, el individualismo y la libertad.