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Two Cheers for John Tierney

February 2002 -- 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....

Sep 7, 2010
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5 minutos
Catedrales verdes: El atractivo mitológico del ecologismo

Septiembre de 2007 -- Toda cultura y sus instituciones son la encarnación viva de ciertas ideas fundamentales sobre el hombre y su lugar en el mundo.

2 de septiembre de 2010
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Robert James Bidinotto
10 minutos
Vandal Chic

July/August 2002 -- Graffiti is metastasizing again throughout New York City. "The guys out here now are destroying us," says Bruce Pienkny

Aug 31, 2010
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Heather MacDonald
6 minutos
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters -and Multiculturalists

This is a collection of essays and reviews by an American sociologist who for some forty years has been slugging it out in academic journals

Aug 31, 2010
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Walter Donway
10 minutos
Understanding What Businessmen Do

The Wall Street Journal editorial page today prints the following quotation from Camille Paglia : “We need a sweeping revalorization of the trades. The pressuring of middle-class young people into officebound, paper-pushing jobs is cruelly shortsighted. Concrete manual skills, once gained through the master-apprentice alliance in guilds, build a secure identity.”

Aug 31, 2010
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The Founders' Father

Historian David McCullough, who last year published a biography of President John Adams, was asked in an interview why America's Founding...

29 de agosto de 2010
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Edward Hudgins
8 minutos
Las 10 mejores películas, objetivamente hablando

Noviembre de 2003 -- Esa mañana de martes, como la mayoría, me encontré mirando fijamente la pantalla de mi ordenador. Un rectángulo blanco de Microsoft Word me devolvía la mirada.

29 de agosto de 2010
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Robert James Bidinotto
10 minutos
The Battle for Toleration, and its Betrayal

November 2003 -- This is how the story was told: In 1761, a young French Protestant of Toulouse, Marc Antoine Calas, finding his life a

29 de agosto de 2010
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Roger Donway
5 minutos
The Wright Stuff

December 2003 -- Somewhere you've probably seen the old photos. The two men are wearing bowler hats and sack suits and celluloid collars

29 de agosto de 2010
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Ralph Kinney Bennett
5 minutos
Allah Bless America!

One year after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the FBI arrested six Yemeni immigrants in Lackawanna, New York, for aiding terrorists; the arrest

29 de agosto de 2010
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Edward Hudgins
10 minutos
The Popular Art of Giuseppe Verdi

October 2003 --The following anecdote, although probably apocryphal, goes to the heart of Giuseppe Verdi's music: When he was finishing..

29 de agosto de 2010
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3 minutos
William F. Buckley, Jr.'s "Getting it Right" (Acertando)

Siempre me ha disgustado ese extraño híbrido de realidad y ficción conocido como "docudrama". Un artificio intrínsecamente deshonesto que mezcla la realidad y la ficción.

26 de agosto de 2010
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Robert James Bidinotto
9 minutos
Charms and Enchantments of Fantasy

The essence of what makes fantasy popular is that it takes the reader out of his normal life into an extraordinary, value-laden, and highly

26 de agosto de 2010
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Edward Hudgins
7 minutos
The Future of Cancer Research

According to the American Cancer Society, an expected 1.5 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year, and around

Aug 25, 2010
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Kira Newman
5 minutos
Diosa, No Deificada

Jennifer Burns’s engaging new biography of Ayn Rand focuses on Rand’s political and social views and on her connection to the Right in

Aug 25, 2010
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9 minutos
What About Bob?

I consider Bob Elliott a friend. We’ve traveled thousands of miles together. He’s made me laugh so hard I cried. Once, after he cracked a...

Aug 25, 2010
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Fred Minnick
5 minutos
Éxito infernal

Those are not the kind of questions Landrum wants to be answering. “I’m looking for people who don’t need a lot of guidance,” he tells me...

Aug 25, 2010
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Amanda Erickson
6 minutos
David Segal and the Art of Sneering

David Segal begins his extended New York Times story on the SEC’s suit against Sam and Charles Wyly with several paragraphs denigrating

Aug 23, 2010
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2 minutos
¿Mejor nunca?

I would like to start by asking you all to secure yourselves in your seats. If you have any pointy objects, make sure they are facing away

Aug 22, 2010
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Sam Kazman
10 minutos
Poesía de la libertad

I've gathered for you some poems that celebrate political and personal freedom. I like them, and I hope you will like them, too. This is onl

Aug 19, 2010
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John Enright
6 minutos

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