Just as there is much to celebrate in the life of John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), so is there much to loathe in the muckrakers' treatment o
Frank Quattrone, the star investment banker of the dot-com era, was convicted in federal court on two counts of obstructing justice and....
Owen Flanagan (pictured here) is a prominent philosopher of mind who exemplifies the trend in his profession of paying closer attention to..
A Gallup poll taken in May of 2003 found that only 3 percent of Americans believe animals do not need much legal protection. Fully 71 percen
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...
What does it mean in practice to hold a philosophy that declares that pristine nature has intrinsic value in itself, and that regards Man...
As Henry Steele Commager noted in The Empire of Reason: "It was Americans who not only embraced the body of Enlightenment principles, but...
Many of the towering figures of the Industrial Revolution could well be described as "the compleat producer." Richard Arkwright, for example
In 1956, an extraordinary three-year agreement on cooperation was signed by the Department of Economics at the Chicago University and the...
For more than thirty years, promoting the development of higher self-esteem has been a major goal for clinical psychologists and educators..
In Atlas Shrugged, Dr. Robert Stadler finds it "outrageous" that a genius such as John Galt would have "performed a major revolution in...
In 1987, during an in-depth interview, Barbara Walters pointedly asked actor Sean Connery why he chose to play golf only with men. It was...
There are museums of art, science, and natural history in major cities throughout the world. New York City alone has dozens of art museums,
As human beings, we fear chaos and confusion and fight against them. We appreciate order. We celebrate reason, logic, and science because...
The structure of our federal system can be explained in major part by the final two provisions of our Bill of Rights, the Ninth and Tenth
All of her heroes grew from Cyrus, the hero of that children's story she loved about the British soldier in India [The Mysterious Valley]...
CNN’s Lou Dobbs has come in for criticism for saying something sensible and insightful. It is too vague and too politically correct to call
Why do they hate us? How could they have done this? What were they trying to achieve?
