Summer 2012Vol. 7, No. 2
Features
Why Marxism? Evil Laid Bare
Examines key ideas that have driven Marxists and socialists?from Asian and European dictators to American college professors?to enact or advocate an ideology that is historically and philosophically pure evil.
How Would Government Be Funded in a Free Society?
Lays out evidence in support of the fact that, in a free society, people would voluntarily pay to support a properly limited, rights-protecting government; and discusses the essential means by which they would do so.
Atlas Shrugged and Ayn Rand's Morality of Egoism (accessible for free)
Provides a myth-busting introduction to the Objectivist ethics. (Does not contain spoilers about the novel.)
Steve Simpson on Continuing Threats to Corporate Free Speech
Mr. Simpson surveys the continuing threats to corporate freedom of speech, discusses the essential elements in the battle to defend it, and sheds much light on the fundamentals of an otherwise nightmarishly complex political mess.
Painter Bryan Larsen on His Artwork and Ideas
Mr. Larsen discusses his work, how he became a painter, who and what inspires him, and why his subjects always look so purposeful. Includes ten high-resolution images of his paintings.
Film Reviews
The Avengers • Directed by Joss Whedon
Act of Valor • Directed by Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh
Book Reviews
Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric, by Ward Farnsworth
The Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of the Secular State, by Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore
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