If you want your New Year’s resolutions to be completed, take the steps needed to really commit to it.
CULTURE
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.
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.
An American Holiday: The Moral Meaning Behind Thanksgiving
Ayn Rand described Thanksgiving as “a typically American holiday . . . its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.”
Jacob Goldstein’s “Planet Money”: Snarky, Inaccurate, and Oddly Incomplete
Every step of the way, Goldstein’s account is mistaken.
Bjorn Lomborg’s “False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet”
Bjorn Lomborg’s “False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet” is a true alarm—a call for a re-thinking of climate policy entirely.
“Freeloader U”: On Tax Exempt, Government Subsidized American Colleges
Everyone else pays more because colleges get tax breaks, government grants, and government loans.
Should Blacks Support The Destruction of Charter Schools?
Why do black people, as a political group, accept the attack on charter schools given that charter schools provide superior educational opportunities for black youngsters.
The Moral Meaning of the Berlin Wall
Life in the socialist utopia of East Germany was a waking nightmare.
Reflecting On Communism After 103 Years
November 7th marks the 103rd anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, where Communist revolutionaries overthrew the czarist government of Russia, eventually leading to the establishment of the Soviet Union.
Why I Love America
“America is, and always will be, a shining City on a Hill.” – Ronald Reagan
Black Americans: No Longer “Useful Tools” For the Leftist, Hate-America Agenda
The solution to most of the major problems that confront black people will not be found in the political arena or by electing more blacks to high office.
Black Education Matters
Everything depends on how well Republicans inform black voters and how receptive those voters are to breaking their old voting habits.
Thanks To Progress Because of Capitalism Life is Getting Better
I obsess about problems. But I try not to let that distract me from the big picture:
“The Aristocracy of Pull” Meets Public Choice Theory: Randall Holcombe’s “Political Capitalism”
Holcombe mixes the theory of economic and political elites as it has been developed by political scientists and sociologists with Public Choice Theory to help us understand what Ayn Rand called “the aristocracy of pull” in Atlas Shrugged.
Lockdown Flagellation as Penance For Our Capitalist Sins
Let those who desire to suffer be free to do so. As for the rest of us, let us get back to having good lives, including partaking in actual fun.
What College Students “Learn” From Left-Wing Professors Will Shock You
Two websites, College Reform and College Fix, report on the despicable teachings on college campuses across the nation. Let us look at some of it.
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?
Columbus Day: A Time to Celebrate
Underlying the political collectivism of the anti-Columbus crowd is a racist view of human nature.
Leftist Supremacy, Not White Supremacy, is the Gravest Threat to Black Lives
Is traditional racism, anti-black hatred, a major threat to black lives, as Black Lives Matter claims? Is there a far greater threat to black lives than traditional racism, that is widely overlooked? If so, what can we do about it? What must be done to protect black lives?
Andrew Bernstein’s The Capitalist Manifesto
Andrew Bernstein’s book is “among the best single presentations of the case for capitalism. (It is) amazingly good.” – Harry Binswanger
Biased Media
Last election, 96% of journalists’ political donations went to Hillary Clinton.
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