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The Kerry Draft:
October 29, 2004:
Cartoonists John Cox and Allen Forkum expose John Kerry's scheme to force high school students to perform community service, a plan based on the same collectivist fallacy as the draft. Messrs. Cox and Forkum provide a humorous cartoon and a detailed explanation for this purpose.
Intervention:
October 6, 2004:
Emfasizing the frequent conflict between factual truth and mainstream beliefs, Alex Markov presents a satirical short story about a future paradigm averse to personal health.
From Miracles to Murder: Objectivism and Religion:
October 1, 2004:
Raven A. Geary analyzes the distinction between religions that are harmful and threatening to individual liberty and those that are strictly confined to private matters, and contends that the latter are not necessarily antithetical to the filosofy of Objectivism.
October 2, 2004:
G. Stolyarov II presents an account of his recollections of a New Intellectual Forum meeting with Dr. Edward Hudgins, Dr. David Kelley, and many other esteemed Objectivists. The proceedings of that evening should serve as a model for the type of civil, intelligent discourse desirable among rational individuals.
October 14, 2004:
G. Stolyarov II argues the fundamental compatibility of two vastly developed ideological systems, Objectivism and Transhumanism, and claims that adherents of these two strains of thought need to recognize the necessity of each ideology to achieving the other's goals.
A Review of Christopher Schlegel's Piano Concertos 1 & 2:
September 27, 2004
Composer Christopher Schlegel has created two piano concertos which provide a panorama of high music's past, present, and future, at its best. G. Stolyarov II reviews these works.
September 27, 2004:
The fifth waltz in Mr. Schlegel's wonderful collection, which Mr. Stolyarov had reviewed in full here.
October 2, 2004:
The sixth waltz in Mr. Schlegel's compendium, and the complement to the Waltz in B-flat Major.
October 7, 2004:
Another delightful free preview of Mr. Schlegel's series of piano waltzes.
October 23, 2004:
Another brilliant, original waltz from Mr. Schlegel's compilation.
October 25, 2004:
The final preview of Mr. Schlegel's impressive collection of waltzes.
A Free Market of, by, and for Human Life:
October 7, 2004:
Jonathan Rick argues for the moral imperative to legalize the commercial sale of human organs as the only possible outcome of a political system that recognizes individuals' right to dispose of their own bodies.
October 23, 2004:
Dr. Gary M. Galles explains how the U.S. Federal Government's attempts to establish a national drunk driving policy, a national speed limit, or use federal funds to coerce state governments into making miscellaneous policy judgments are blatantly antithetical to the principles set forth in the U.S. Constitution.
October 25, 2004:
Dr. John Hospers, the first Libertarian Presidential candidate, now offers his case for why it is imperative for libertarians of all stripes to support George W. Bush in the coming U.S. Presidential election.
October 27, 2004:
G. Stolyarov II enumerates three threats posed by a would-be Kerry administration, menaces that render it a moral imperative for rational men to oppose this man's ambition to power.
November 1, 2004:
Dr. Irfan Khawaja reveals how support for the draft is consistent with the fundamental ideology of the Democratic Party, and how the Democrats' scare propaganda about a draft under a would-be Bush administration is untrue and hypocritical.
November 1, 2004:
Robert Olson provides a dissenting opinion on tomorrow's Presidential election, explaining why, though he sees numerous positive aspects of President Bush's character and agenda (and numerous drawbacks to Kerry's), he supports Kerry as the lesser of two evils.
