Wednesday
February 24, 2010 |
 AS THE WORLD WATCHED INFERIOR BOWL SUNDAY 2010
by Alexandra York
So there it was in all its international “glory”: Super Bowl 2010, this year becoming the most-watched show in the whole of television history, broadcasting to the entire world a series of snapshots depicting Americans’ preferred pleasures and pastimes. (Read more...)
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 ROMANTIC REALISM: Visions of Values
by Alexandra York
It is a passion for life that leads contemporary Romantic Realist artists forward to express a rebirth of values that can elevate their own spirit as well as the spirit of those who experience their art. It is a reverence for and a tenacious love for the beautiful—and for the possible—in the world and in humankind that clears their vision to create images of glory in their art, images that thrill us, that move us, that inspire us. For what cannot be imagined, cannot happen. (Read more...)
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 The Legacy Lives: Embracing the Year Three Thousand in Philosophy and Art
by Alexandra York
“Happiness,” then, is not “I feel good” but “I feel good because I am good,” meaning “I am the best I can be.” Epicurus concurred with Aristotle’s moral ideal as the definition of enduring happiness. (Read more...)
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OBAMA: HONORING THE DEAD AND DISRUPTING THE LIVING
by Alexandra York
I wonder: How many times did they dine in the city of Paris and visit Notre Dame (a top tourist attraction even for young neophytes) in private life, as do most people who are genuinely interested in learning about and experiencing other cultures on their own initiative and acquiring the attendant sophistication of worldly and historical knowledge? (Read more...)
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Charting the Course to an American Renaissance in Art and Ideas
by Alexandra York
There is no doubt that we live in a dangerous but exhilarating time. The prize is great but the stakes are high, for if we do not generate another Renaissance, then surely we shall suffer the default position of another Dark Age. (Read more...)
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 The Real Republican Divide
by Alexandra York
Alexandra York sent me (Manfred F. Schieder) an article that I consider important for the readers of "Rebirth of Reason". "The Real Republican Divide" analyzes the intellectual contradictions existing within that party - to which Ayn Rand herself pointed in her essay "For the New Intellectual" - and lines up with what the recent article "A Call for Action" and my own "Preparing for Capitalism" request. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
December 10, 2008 |
You could have heard a pin drop...
by Alexandra York
Commentary by Manfred F. Schieder: Alexandra York sent me a series of incisive stories that hit the nail on the head and which, under the present world circumstances, we all, but precisely the American population, should clearly keep in their mind. Please pass this on to your friends and associates. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
November 26, 2008 |
A "HAPPENING" AT MoMA
by Alexandra York
Alexandra York, founding president of ART (http://www.art-21.org/Docs/Essays.htm), author of "From The Fountainhead to the Future" and "Crosspoints", a novel inspired by Ayn Rand's literary legacy, sent me ART's Update Fall 2008, which contains a deeply sarcastic and hilariously funny criticism of an Installation exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York that Alexandra visited recently. She agreed on my sending it over to "Rebirth of Reason" for the members to enjoy lots of laughs! (Read more...)
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