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Why Do New Year’s Resolutions Typically Fail?
If you want your New Year’s resolutions to be completed, take the steps needed to really commit to it.
Making Resolutions Outlast January
As Ayn Rand put it, a value is something you act to gain or keep. A desire without action then is just a wish.
What is the Meaning of New Year’s?
Your life is in your own hands.
Five Times in 2020 When The New York Times Accidentally Told the Truth
The paper of record in 2020 shifted dramatically to the most illiberal stance possible on the virus, pushing for full lockdowns, and ignoring or burying any information that might contradict the case for this unprecedented experiment in social and economic control.
2020’s Good News
“We have this tendency, for good reasons, to focus on problems, because that’s our way of solving problems,” says Norberg. “But then there’s the risk that we’ll just despair and think it’s hopeless and we give up. That’s not the solution to our problems.
The Famous Mike Wallace Interview with Ayn Rand
IThis video might be the most important interview you have ever watched.
Santa’s Naughty and Nice Christmas List
Who should be on Santa’s naughty and nice lists this Christmas?
“Great Spirits” versus “Useful Idiots”
How was I to resolve the irreconcilable dilemma between my passionate love for scholarship and my gut-wrenching disappointment with those American intellectuals who condoned communist crimes?
Christmas Should be More Commercial
It is time to take the Christ out of Christmas, and turn the holiday into a guiltlessly egoistic, pro-reason, this-worldly, commercial celebration.
Eulogy for Dad
Teaching was his passion. It was his gift. It was, second only to his family, his greatest love.
Christmas is About Enjoying Values Not Sacrificing Them
Those who feel guilt over material wealth and blame business for commercializing Christmas through ‘greedy’ profit seeking should pause and ask: “What is the standard of value by which we condemn material wealth and business?”
Walter Williams: Suffer No Fools
On the major social and political issues of our time, Walter Williams is one of America’s most important and provocative thinkers.
Remembering Walter Williams, Friend and Mentor
RIP, Professor Walter E. Williams. Thank you for gracing the world with your presence.
Untangling The ‘Gay Pride’ and ‘Black Pride’ Package Deal
I was recently asked if I thought “Black Pride,” “Gay Pride” and other forms of ethnic pride were legitimate.
Walter E. Williams 1936-2020
Walter Williams (1936-2020) “was my best friend for half a century. There was no one I trusted more or whose integrity I respected more.” – Thomas Sowell
Black Education Tragedy Is New
As early as 1899, students of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, a black public school in Washington, D.C., scored higher on citywide tests than any of the city’s white schools. From its founding in 1870 to 1955, most of its graduates went off to college.
Capitalists’ Socialism Syndrome
At the present moment, we are witnessing a phenomenon that to many people appears bizarre and inexplicable: the phenomenon of wealthy capitalists supporting socialism/communism.
Michael Sandel’s Tyranny of the “Common Good”
Sandel’s bottom line: you did not earn anything. It is all determined or blind luck. Sandel’s goal is to induce unearned guilt in everyone who does well in life.
The Real Meaning of Thanksgiving: The Triumph of Capitalism over Collectivism
In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism.
The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Crisis into a Catastrophe
COVID-19 doomsday predictions should have been received with skepticism.
Private Property’s Harvest
Yes, we’ve got the pandemic, lockdowns, a worsening deficit, etc. But we still live in a relatively free country at the most prosperous time in human history.
Thanksgiving: The Producer’s Holiday
Thanksgiving celebrates man’s ability to produce.
The Big Lie in Hollywood: The Hollywood Ten Were Not Victims But Villains
Selling “The Big Lies” helps Hollywood to keep alive the fantasy that the Left is the victim rather than the perpetrator of injustice.
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