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• Ayn Rand Is In

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 742
  By David Boaz Who would have thought? The Washington Post , which took two months to run a review of the two important new books about Ayn Rand that were published in October, now declares Ayn Rand to be “In” for 2010. Well, technically, in the paper’s annual New Year’s Day Out/In list , it declares ...
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• On Totalitarian Sentimentality: What It Is, And Why We Should Fight It

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 132
  Mark Steyn, who frequently serves as a fill-in for Rush Limbaugh and recently has been filling-in for Sean Hannity on his television program, is a genuine treasure.  He manages to combine a riotous sense of humor with conservative wisdom and his own je ne sais quoi. Today, on Rush Limbaugh’s radio program, Steyn ...
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• Hillsdale College Professor Paul Rahe: "The State of Higher Education: Who Was Montesquieu?"

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Every once in a while one gets an insight into the sad state of higher education in the United States. Back in 2008, when my agent was attempting to market the manuscript of what recently appeared in two companion volumes under the titles Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, Terrain, ...
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• Op-Ed Columnist: Heaven and Nature

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  
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• An Unexceptional Nation

  
  The New Republic - damon linker Feed — Authority: 92
  Neocons have begun to warm to Barack Obama’s foreign policy vision . What they’ve liked about his recent speeches (at West Point, but far more so in Oslo) is his willingness to defend (against the anti-political pacifism that dominates a segment of elite European opinion) the idea that there can be morally ...
  3 weeks ago

• Citizens of the World, Divide!

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 131
  Moorpark , CA . We are told to be careful with our words, to be aware of how our words might make other people feel or of how we might be misunderstood.  However important is this advice (and it is both important and grossly overused), these are not the primary reasons we should be thoughtful about our language.  ...
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• THE TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY

  
  Citizen Tom — Authority: 431
  Usually we do not think of majority rule as tyrannical.  Alexis De Tocqueville , however, had no such illusions.  He understood that more than one republic had passed into despotism because  of majority rule.  And from his observations of 1831-32 America, he also understood just how tyrannical the majority ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gold: A Contrarians Dilemma

  
  immobilienblasen — Authority: 106
  A must read especially for the long term "freaks" aka GOLD-BUGS like myself that have to deal with the fact that Gold has won lots of "fans" lately and is in the short term unusually crowded .... Pflichtlektüre besonders für alle altgedienten "Freaks" bzw. GOLD-BUGS die momentan damit leben müssen das ...
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• THE RIGHT OF FREE ASSOCIATION

  
  Citizen Tom — Authority: 431
    The First Amendment of our Constitution lists about six rights.   Article [I.] (See Note 13) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to ...
  4 weeks ago

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