First, I am nearly done with my book on epistemology, which has been nearly thirty years in the making. An advance copy is now being read by colleagues. Here is a draft of the cover. While colleagues have been reading, I have sought an alternative to in-person performances of my one-man show, which have been […]
“We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.” American politicians and bureaucrats at all levels of government have fallen to the level of socialism, with the FDA blocking creators, with the monopolistic CDC bungling what creators would otherwise do well, with administrators of socialized medicine producing […]
The best article I have read on the COVID-19 pandemic is An Epistemic Crisis, by Jeffrey A. Tucker, on the website of the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), an eminent pro-freedom think tank. This article, however, is not merely economic; it is primarily epistemological, as its title suggests. I wish I could quote the […]
As is my custom, I celebrate the birthday of Ayn Rand by opening one of her novels to a random page and reading. Here is something I read today, from The Fountainhead, Part Three, Chapter 5: “I often think that he’s the only one of us who’s achieved immortality. I don’t mean in the sense of […]
Soul Celebrations and Spiritual Snacks, by my friend Alexandra York, is a book of “secular spirituality.” This new book is a systematic collection of educated, rational, and emotionally evocative exercises and best practices for cultivating one’s love for nature and for the highest elements of mankind—in art and romance—for the purpose of reaping sublime rewards […]
I have often heard contemporary conservatives say that rights come from God, not government. It is true that rights do not come from government. But it is an unfortunate disservice to the cause of liberty to state that rights come from God. As C. Bradley Thompson documents voluminously in his great new book, America’s Revolutionary […]
Forget Labor Day. Today, September 2, is Atlas Shrugged Day. I celebrate this day each year by opening to a random page of this great novel, by Ayn Rand, and reading a passage. Here is what I found today, on page 512 of the hardcover book (New York: Random House, 1957), Part II, Chapter V (“Account Overdrawn”): […]
The new scoundrels leading the political Left are finally admitting—after more than a century of brazen lying by such Leftist scoundrels as Woodrow Wilson, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, and Barack Obama—that they are socialists. Therefore, without confusing readers and without repeating lengthy explanations, I can now just refer to Leftists as socialists. Socialism is generally […]
(Update, July 21, 2020: Charlotte Cushman has written a book, Effective Discipline the Montessori Way, on this subject. See my review.) (This is the first post on this blog written by someone other than me. It is an honor for me to publish this guest post by Charlotte Cushman, author of Montessori: Why It Matters […]
The first half of this essay presents facts, as reported by news media, regarding what has come to be called the “migrant caravan” traveling from Guatemala through Mexico, heading toward the southern border of the United States. In the second half, I recommend what the U.S. should do about this caravan. What has the caravan […]