Volume 6, Number 1 of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies has just been published. This issue is the first of two symposia celebrating the Ayn Rand Centenary (which is marked, officially, on 2 February 2005). It is entitled "Ayn Rand: Literary and Cultural Impact," and it features articles from such contributors as Eri...(Read more...)
David Mayer, a frequent contributor to the Objectivist Center, weighs in on the side of voting for Bush. He argues --- at quite length! --- on the grounds of the war on terror and on political incrementalism. (Read more...)
Bush "invoked the names of Democrats Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy by way of accusing Kerry of "taking a narrow, defensive view of the war on terror," then summoned memories of Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey to accuse his rival of shortchanging public education."(Read more...)
This is amazing - as little as 12,000 years or so ago (and maybe, if you believe the locals, as little as 500 years ago), humans and a separate species of tiny hominid (adults grew to three feet tall) were living side by side in Indonesia ... "ABC News is reporting that anthropologists have found the skeletal r...(Read more...)
Just as neo-Liberalism is a return to classical liberalism, "Conservatism" under Bush is a return to the ideas of the 19th-century Conservative opponets of classical Liberalism. Mr. Bush has been different from American Conservatives of the recent past: an avowed conservative who is nevertheless willing to embrace big...(Read more...)
With Bush running Iraq more in the interests of the Saudi theocracy than in the interest of the United States, one might at least expect the Saudis to do their part to reduce conflicts in their part of the world. In expecting this one would be totally wrong...(Read more...)
When Bush buys pork with deficits, he robs taxpayers thrice: by removing capital from productive investment; by debasing the currency - as shown by the data in this article; and again when the "National Debt" is eventually repudiated or repaid.(Read more...)
You won't find the article at the link though, because the Guardian has replaced it with a "correction". But here's what Charlie Brooker wrote: "On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God...(Read more...)
"Instant Runoff Voting is a reform that allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference, so that in cases where there is no initial majority winner, a runoff recount can be conducted without a new election to determine which candidate is actually preferred by a majority of voters."
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