Volume 1, No. 4: Winter 2006
“No Substitute for Victory”: The Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism
Author’s note: This article was adapted from a lecture I presented at the Ayn Rand Institute’s OCON conference “The Jihad Against the West,” in Boston, MA, on October 21, 2006.
The Tragedy of Theology: How Religion Caused and Extended the Dark Ages
A Critique of Rodney Stark’s The Victory of Reason
Property and Principle: A Review Essay on Bernard H. Siegan’s Economic Liberties and the Constitution
Economic Liberties and the Constitution, by Bernard H. Siegan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. 383 pp. First edition available used; 2nd edition (2005) not recommended.
The Educational, Psychological, and Philosophical Assault on Self-Esteem
In 1986, the State of California funded a “Task Force on Self-Esteem and Personal and Social Responsibility” with an annual budget of $245,000. Its main backer, a California State Assemblyman, claimed that raising self-esteem would reduce crime and delinquency, decrease teen pregnancy and underachievement, lower drug abuse and crime, cut pollution, and …
Mr. Jekyll and Dr. House: The Reason-Emotion Split as Manifested in House, M.D.
Author’s note: This article pertains to the first two seasons of_House, M.D._