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C. A. Wolski reviews The Help, directed by Tate Taylor.

Discusses the collections and virtues of the NGA, compares it to other museums in America, and concludes that the NGA is the fairest of all.

Ms. Mann discusses how she became an artist, her favorite painters, her own works and techniques, and the respective roles of the conscious mind and the subconscious in the process of painting.

Examines Steve Jobs’s famous impatience, compares it to his less-well-known patience, and finds that in this area, as in so many others, Jobs breaks the mold and is worthy of praise and emulation.

Diana Hsieh and Ari Armstrong Surveys the expanding efforts to outlaw abortion in America, examines the facts that give rise to a woman’s right to abortion, and shows why the assault on this right is an assault on all our rights.

Identifies the proper role of government; applies this principle to crucial issues of the day, including “entitlement” programs, corporate bailouts, and the Islamist threat; and calls for lovers of liberty to save America by adopting this moral truth as their fundamental political principle.

Craig Biddle introduces the Winter 2011-2012 issue.

Alex Epstein is the founder and director of the Center for Industrial Progress and a principal at Master Resource, a free market energy blog. I recently had the privilege of speaking with him about his work, industrial progress, his "occupation" of "Occupy Wall Street," and his plans for the future. —JL…

Saying grace is an act of injustice; it's the injustice of thanking an alleged God for the productive accomplishments of actual men.

Democrats have blocked an effort by Senate Republicans to stop the FCC from enforcing “net neutrality” regulations on the Internet. The regulations in question make it illegal for Internet providers to allocate bandwidth on their networks and equipment in accordance with their judgment and their customers’ needs. For example, if…

The FDA will force U.S. pharmaceutical companies to phase out over-the-counter (OTC) inhalers used by people with Asthma. The ban was “justified” on the premise that it will protect the ozone layer. The proper purpose of government, however, is not to protect the ozone, but to protect individual rights—including the rights…

As part of the United Nations’ general support for murderous regimes, one of its agencies—The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization—has granted the Palestinian Liberation Organization full membership in UNESCO. In response, U.S. officials have indicated that the United States will cut off all funding for UNESCO. But this ignores…

CBS News reports that presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said that he is "convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America” by the time his grand-children are his age, America will be “a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with…

If you see that America is collapsing into fascism and want to do something about it, The Objective Standard is for you. TOS is the only publication that identifies the root causes of the problems we face and offers corresponding solutions. Why did Obamacare become law, and what must be…

[caption id="attachment_1809" align="alignright" width="228"] Wikipedia Commons[/caption] “Banks got bailed out, we got sold out,” cried Wall Street Occupiers. The sentiment is true, but it explains nothing. Remember that the federal government also bailed out the auto unions and, more recently, more underwater homeowners. On Wednesday President Obama spoke to students…