As is my custom, I celebrate the birthday of Ayn Rand by opening one of her novels to a random page and reading. Here is something I read today, from The Fountainhead, Part Three, Chapter 5: “I often think that he’s the only one of us who’s achieved immortality. I don’t mean in the sense of […]
Soul Celebrations and Spiritual Snacks, by my friend Alexandra York, is a book of “secular spirituality.” This new book is a systematic collection of educated, rational, and emotionally evocative exercises and best practices for cultivating one’s love for nature and for the highest elements of mankind—in art and romance—for the purpose of reaping sublime rewards […]
I have often heard contemporary conservatives say that rights come from God, not government. It is true that rights do not come from government. But it is an unfortunate disservice to the cause of liberty to state that rights come from God. As C. Bradley Thompson documents voluminously in his great new book, America’s Revolutionary […]
Forget Labor Day. Today, September 2, is Atlas Shrugged Day. I celebrate this day each year by opening to a random page of this great novel, by Ayn Rand, and reading a passage. Here is what I found today, on page 512 of the hardcover book (New York: Random House, 1957), Part II, Chapter V (“Account Overdrawn”): […]
The new scoundrels leading the political Left are finally admitting—after more than a century of brazen lying by such Leftist scoundrels as Woodrow Wilson, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, and Barack Obama—that they are socialists. Therefore, without confusing readers and without repeating lengthy explanations, I can now just refer to Leftists as socialists. Socialism is generally […]
(Update, July 21, 2020: Charlotte Cushman has written a book, Effective Discipline the Montessori Way, on this subject. See my review.) (This is the first post on this blog written by someone other than me. It is an honor for me to publish this guest post by Charlotte Cushman, author of Montessori: Why It Matters […]
The first half of this essay presents facts, as reported by news media, regarding what has come to be called the “migrant caravan” traveling from Guatemala through Mexico, heading toward the southern border of the United States. In the second half, I recommend what the U.S. should do about this caravan. What has the caravan […]
This article of mine, motivating the study of philosophy, appeared last Friday in Quillette: The Indispensable Study of Inescapable Matters For those who do not know Quillette, here is Jordan Peterson interviewing Quillette founder Claire Lehmann: Here is an article about Lehmann and Quillette: Australia’s Mistress of the Intellectual Dark Web Here is a New York […]
The Recreation, Arts, and Parks Tax—the RAP Tax—is a one-tenth-of-one-percent sales tax levied by Cedar City, Utah on all purchases within the city. One third of the tax money is spent on what the government considers good art. This tax forces individuals to pay for specific works of art against their will. The RAP Tax […]
The screenplay version of my story, The Merchant of Mars, is now available for sale. The screenplay was represented by a prestigious Hollywood literary agency years ago, but was shelved. The heroes are patriotic American capitalists who want to exploit Mars as private property; the villains are environmentalists, aided by the Communist Chinese government, who […]