Volume 2, No. 3: Fall 2007

Announcements

From the Editor, Fall 2007

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August 20, 2007
From the Editor, Fall 2007

You may have noticed that something is missing: This is the first issue of TOS that has not included an article on foreign policy or war. Having said so much on that subject over the past eighteen months, we decided a reprieve was in order. What is in this issue, however, is fuel for the soul and feast for the eyes.

Arts & Culture

Transfiguring the Novel: The Literary Revolution in Atlas Shrugged

August 20, 2007
Transfiguring the Novel: The Literary Revolution in Atlas Shrugged

Author’s note: For those who have not yet read Atlas Shrugged but intend to, this essay will spoil the suspense of reading the novel for the first time.

Arts & Culture

How to Analyze and Appreciate Paintings

August 20, 2007
How to Analyze and Appreciate Paintings

Selectivity (or Why Size and Everything Else in Art Matters)

Economics

The Morality of Moneylending: A Short History

August 20, 2007
The Morality of Moneylending: A Short History

Author’s note: This essay is partially based on my lecture “Money-Lending: Its History and Philosophy,” delivered at Second Renaissance Conferences, Anaheim, California, July 2001.