The essential value of spectator sports lies in their capacity to illustrate, in a dramatic way, the process of human goal-achievement.
Living
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.
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What is the Meaning of New Year’s?
Your life is in your own hands.
“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?
Eulogy for Dad
Teaching was his passion. It was his gift. It was, second only to his family, his greatest love.
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.
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
Fatherless Households: A National Crisis
If protesters are truly concerned about the condition of Black and Hispanic urban Americans in particular, why the pathetic silence over the fatherless households, the principal reason for the very conditions they complain about?
How To Be Profitable and Moral In 2020
Self-interest rests on what human flourishing requires: adhering to reality in one’s thinking and action by the means of observation and logic
Life Lessons From The Death of a Beloved Brother
Kirk, the Best Brother Ever, R.I.P.
If You Are Warm Right Now, Thank Capitalism
Last night the temperature fell 3 degrees an hour. As I write this, it is negative 10 degrees outside. A “once in a generation” polar vortex has swept into the American Midwest from the Arctic. I am lucky to be alive. It would take me just a couple of hours to die...
Lying: What Do You Gain?
Lying is motivated by the mistaken belief that one can actually gain a value by telling a lie, to deceive others (or oneself).
Self-Made Men (1875)
Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
Ralph Raico, RIP
I deeply regret the passing of Ralph Raico. In his youth, he was my brother.
The Lure of Baseball
Watching sports satisfies a vital human need.
Speed Up by Slowing Down
Speed up confusing, bogged-down tasks by slowing down your thinking.
Fear of Aging
Q: I'm terribly afraid of aging. I'm only in my forties, but I think about it a lot. Is there anything you can do to help? A: You're aging -- we're all aging -- from the minute we're born. Ruminating about something over which you have no control only serves to raise...
Valentine’s Day Reflections
Valentine’s Day is a great way to celebrate a love you already have. But if it’s a way to make up for your lack of appreciating your love the rest of the year, you better do some thinking.
Complicating the Obvious
Making simple things complicated.
2015: A Great Time To Be Alive
Where there is rule of law and individual freedom, humanity is better off.
Looking Back
The New York City schools were among the best in the country in those days, better than they had been for the European immigrants before me and much better than they would be for the mass influx of blacks from the South after me.
Hard Goals: The Science of Extraordinary Achievement
There are, however, many mistakes you can make in goal-setting that will delay and hinder you and make your goals harder to achieve. This book points out these pitfalls and how to avoid them.
The Death of Robin Williams
In the end, it’s not how you die that matters at all; it’s how you live.