A Journal for Western Man-- Issue XV
Robert Alef and G. Stolyarov II debate the nature of selfishness and of the rejection thereof as part of an analysis of Michael Miller's article in the previous issue.
If ImClone CEO Sam Waksal had taken the example of Henry Rearden in Atlas Shrugged and categorically asserted his innocence and the moral legitimacy of his non-coercive actions, writes David Holcberg, he could have walked free.
One of America's greatest poets was also one of its greatest advocates of liberty, individualism, and limited government. Read Dr. Gary M. Galles's account of Walt Whitman's thoughts concerning the separation of State and Economics.
Whereas G. Stolyarov II finds economist Murray Rothbard's dubbing of the early Objectivist movement as a cult to be entirely inappropriate, he does note that valid insights can be extracted from Rothbard's commentary.
Whatever the rantings of multiculturalists may spew forth, American culture is objectively superior to the backward primitives of the Third World. Dr. Edwin A. Locke analyzes the key principles that have triggered America's success.
An argument on the matter of abortion has led G. Stolyarov II to the idea that several varieties of continuums exist, each of them requiring different treatment based on its nature. This treatise lays a foundation for their distinction and for selective application of the so-called "Fallacy of the Continuum" to real-life situations.
G. Stolyarov II exposes, in brief verse, a few of the foibles, hypocrisies, and outright intellectual evils afflicting modern society.
G. Stolyarov II continues with this series of satirical poetry concerning the sores of the present paradigm.
Curtailing government spending to figures within just bounds can increase the average consumer's spending power twofold, explains Michael Miller via simple economics whose applications can move your tax freedom day up to mid-January.
Today, separate and unequal treatment is applied to America's most persecuted minority, Big Business, whose right to free speech and defense in the courts has been greatly curtailed. Dr. Robert Garmong exposes and protests this trend.
C. Andrew Warren addresses a human rights crisis to which most in the developed countries have been oblivious. He explains the nature and horror of a present-day situation in which men are not permitted to hold a property in themselves.
In the age of statist health care and "substituted judgment," the legalization of supposedly voluntary assisted suicide could result in a slippery slope of coerced mercy killings, argues John Walker.
Formerly an advocate of legalizing assisted suicide, Edmund Daleford has realized that this would be an immense detriment to the liberties of man under today's system of statist health care.
This article is bound to alter readers' perceptions concerning the desirability of taxation. Michael Miller argues why tax evaders deserve to be dubbed heroes rather than "cheats."
~Ayn Rand