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The leftist publication The Nation paid Ayn Rand a backhanded compliment by featuring a photograph of Atlas Shrugged in an advertisement for gift subscriptions. The ad reads, “It might be too late to change Uncle Norm, but there’s still hope for the kids.” It claims that The Nation offers “proudly…

Craig Biddle introduces the Winter 2013–14 issue.

Daniel Wahl reviews The Emergent Reader Series, by Laura Appleton-Smith. emergent-reader.jpg

Picks up where Thompson’s essay “The New Abolitionism: Why Education Emancipation is the Moral Imperative of Our Time” (TOS Winter 2012–13) left off; asks and answers questions such as: What would a fully free market in education look like? How would it work? Would it provide quality, affordable education for all children, including those from lower-income families? If so, how?

Kevin Douglas reviews The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How the World's Poorest People Are Educating Themselves, by James Tooley.

It's rare that I find an article on mental strength to be 100 percent correct. This one is. I have no reason to believe that either Amy Morin or Cheryl Conner is an Objectivist, but their views expressed in “Mentally Strong People: The 13 Things They Avoid” are fully consistent…

After the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) drove the company that produced Buckyballs (small magnets sold to adults as toys) out of business, the agency sought to hold Craig Zucker—former CEO of the company—personally liable for the cost of the recall. Zucker fought back with his United We Ball PR…

Scott McConnell reviews Notorious, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Richard M. Salsman reviews Mind vs. Money: The War between Intellectuals and Capitalism, by Alan S. Kahan.

Scott McConnell reviews The Mark of Zorro, directed by Rouben Mamoulian. zorro.jpg

Surveys the life and accomplishments of this remarkable scientist, who, “once internationally revered, is now largely unknown—remembered, if at all, only for his invention of pasteurization”; shows why “Pasteur deserves to be remembered as more than a portmanteau on the side of a milk jug” and why he ought to be remembered instead as an “adventurer of science” and as “a light that brightens more and more.”

Exposes major problems with libertarianism, compares it to radical capitalism, and shows why only the latter provides a viable defense of liberty.

Robert Garmong reviews The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, by David Stockman.

On the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, we salute this remarkable, heroic man. http://www.youtube.com/embed/BvA0J_2ZpIQ Like this post? Join our mailing list to receive our weekly digest. And for in-depth commentary from an Objectivist perspective, subscribe to our quarterly journal, The Objective Standard. Related: Review: Lincoln Celebrating Civil War…

ObamaCare violates the rights of doctors, patients, and insurers, and is throttling the lives of tens of millions of Americans in myriad ways. One way to fight for the repeal of this monstrous law is to capture and explain aspects of the law or efforts to implement it in pithy…