Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture
The NFL: An Analogy for Government’s Proper Role in the Marketplace?
Michael A. LaFerrara November 29, 2012
In defense of government regulation of the economy, NewsCompanion.com writer Stephen Hiltner writes: Sports, in general, provides a fine analogy for what government’s role should ideally be. The athletes and their teams, motivated to beat the competition, bring to their game the same energy and creativity that entrepreneurs and businesses…
Arts & Culture
Soccer Coach Wenger is Right to Reject "Positive Racism"
Derrick Nantz November 4, 2012
Recently the Professional Footballers' Association (an English soccer trade union) called for new rules “to make sure qualified black coaches are on interview lists for job vacancies” and to establish monitoring of “the proportion of black coaches and managers,” reports the Guardian. The Association drew inspiration for its proposals from…
Arts & Culture, Reviews
Review: Lunch Break, by Quent Cordair
Daniel Wahl August 20, 2012
Daniel Wahl reviews Lunch Break, by Quent Cordair.
Arts & Culture
An Olympian Congratulations to Kirani James, Oscar Pistorius—and Össur Kristinsson
Ari Armstrong August 6, 2012
Olympic contender Oscar Pistorius ran the 400 meter race Sunday in 46.54 seconds. That’s a speed of over 19 miles per hour. Stunningly, Kirani James beat Pistorius by 1.95 seconds. Anyone who has seen Pistorius race knows why James paid him tribute by asking for his name bib: Pistorius runs…
Arts & Culture
Celebrate the Cinema
Ari Armstrong July 29, 2012
In light of depressed movie attendance due partly to the recent murders at an Aurora movie theater, we should remember the profound joy and inspiration good movies can offer. TOS has reviewed a number of films: The Avengers, Act of Valor, The Help, Atlas Shrugged: Part I, and The King's…
Arts & Culture
Spotlight on Art
Ari Armstrong July 26, 2012
As Ayn Rand writes in The Romantic Manifesto: Consciously or subconsciously, explicitly or implicitly, man knows that he needs a comprehensive view of existence to integrate his values, to choose his goals, to plan his future, to maintain the unity and coherence of his life. . . . That power…
Arts & Culture
The Dark Knight Rises—And Asks Us to Rise As Well
Ari Armstrong July 22, 2012
My advice: Go see The Dark Knight Rises asap. The final film of Christopher Nolan’s outstanding Batman trilogy is not a typical comic-book movie; it is a serious action drama in which a few of the characters happen to wear masks. The story is epic in scale, involving the life…
Arts & Culture
Larry Doby, American Hero
Michael A. LaFerrara July 10, 2012
In 1947, Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers to become the first American of black African descent to play Major League baseball, breaking professional baseball’s self-imposed “color line.” The famous Robinson is rightly considered an American hero. But there was another 1947 black hero who, unfortunately, was historically overshadowed by…
Arts & Culture
Prometheus and the Black Goo of Altruism
Ari Armstrong July 2, 2012
Although Ridley Scott’s film Prometheus is an incoherent mess, it does feature an obvious theme. It glorifies altruism, selfless sacrifice to others. Children’s author and blogger Adrian Bott explains what’s going on in the opening of the film: Let's begin with the eponymous titan himself, Prometheus. He was a wise…
Arts & Culture, Ayn Rand & Objectivism
Ragnar Danneskjold’s Love
Craig Biddle June 18, 2012
After interviewing Bryan Larsen for the Summer issue if TOS, I reread my favorite part of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, the scene in which Ragnar Danneskjold meets Hank Rearden on a road at night and hands him a bar of gold, returning some of the money that the government has…