Arts
Lady Gaga: Please Shut Up and Sing
Michael Hurd | 26 September 2011
Music megastar Lady Gaga is -- reportedly -- going to do her next album for free.
Music megastar Lady Gaga is -- reportedly -- going to do her next album for free.
Should Not The Government Support The Arts?
Frederic Bastiat | 19 July 2011It is clear that the taxpayer, who has contributed one franc, will no longer have this franc at his own disposal. It is clear that he will be deprived of some gratification to the amount of one franc; and that the workman, whoever he may be, who would have received it from him, will be deprived of a benefit to that amount. Let us not, therefore, be led by a childish illusion into believing that the vote of the 60,000 francs may add anything whatever to the well-being of the country, and to national labor. It displaces enjoyments, it transposes wages — that is all.
Art Against Jihad: An Interview with Bosch Fawstin Creator of The Infidel and Pigman
Mark Da Cunha | 28 February 2011Fawstin discusses: his new graphic novel series The Infidel and its' hero Pigman -- the Jihadist's Terrorist; the influence of Frank Miller, Alex Toth and Ayn Rand on his work; his appearance on the Daily Show; the errors of George W. Bush and his contempories; and the rational solution to dealing with Islamic terrorists.
How To Defeat the Hollywood Unions
Ron Pisaturo | 19 October 2007Actor/Writer Explains Why and How to Break Union "Solidarity" in the Coming Strikes
The Failure of 'Flags of Our Fathers'
Nicholas Provenzo | 20 November 2006The real heroes of Iwo Jima--both those who died on the battlefield and those who lived though it--deserve a better telling of their story.
A Morality for Success: What Self-Destructive Celebrities Need
David Gulbraa | 9 March 2006Periodically the newspapers report the latest celebrity scandal--another talented young person down in flames to drugs, alcohol, or violence. Every time it happens, people ask, "Why? How is it that people with everything going for them self-destruct like this?"
Jarhead: Heroes Do Not Exist
Nicholas Provenzo | 13 November 2005Given the freedoms the marines have fought so valiantly over their history to preserve, it's a tragedy they haven't received better from Hollywood in return.
America's Grand Epic: Review of: Sparrowhawk Book Four: Empire
Jena Trammell | 5 February 2005Sparrowhawk is an expertly researched work of fiction. Cline recreates the period vividly down to the relevant details in pre-revolutionary history and culture.
Year in Review: Sunshine Cracks Through Hollywood's Dark 2004
Scott Holleran | 24 January 2005Those unmoved by visions of man as a drunk, a lunatic or a blind drug addict had a few spots of sunshine.
Sex and Love, Actually
Scott Holleran | 27 December 2004The idealized Kinsey honors man's capacity to think.
Dollars and Crosses
- Salsman on Conservatives Mixing of Religion and Politics
- Jump Start Your Thinking Complimentary Teleclass February 16
- Blame Big Government, Not Big Banks
- Happy Birthday, Ayn Rand
- Jane Orient on Quitting Medicare
- Ayn Rand’s Essay “To Whom It May Concern” Now Online
- Uses and Sources of Gold
- New Book: How to be Profitable and Moral: A Rational Egoist Approach to Business
- Democracy and Self Determination of Peoples: Euphenisms for Mob Rule in the Middle East
- Private Schools for the Poor


