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The Rational Argumentator A Journal for Western Man-- Issue XVI |
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| Games | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Laissez-Faire: The Game: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 20, 2003: Pure capitalism has never been attempted in history... until now. Join this simulation of a society that must develop from the most primive of conditions, but without tyranny and regulation. |
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| Historical Analysis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lord Acton on Liberty and Government: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 5, 2003: The man who had warned about the corrupting nature of power had also warned about the encroachment of big government into the proper sphere of free individuals and businesses. Read Dr. Gary M. Galles's analysis of this illustrious historian, political observer, and economist. |
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| Literary Analysis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anthem: The Prison of Collectivism and the Escape: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 22,2003: G. Stolyarov II analyzes the essential elements of Ayn Rand's masterful novelette of a future society decayed into primitivism due to the tenet of man's unquestionable servitude to his "brethren." Anthem is a must-read for anyone seeking to grasp with full precision the implication of the dipolar opposites of scientific individualism and muck-wallowing collectivism. |
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| Vitamins, Minerals, and Harry Potter: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 4, 2003: What attracts such a multitude of readers to the Harry Potter series? Dr. Dianne Durante states that the reasons for the books' popularity are their benevolent sense of life, individualistic inspiration, and principled framework. |
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| Music | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Waltz #2, Op. 13: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 18, 2003: A work by G. Stolyarov II in the late classical style, emphasizing a rational means to establish contrast in melody, that is, without dissonance and aberration. Right click on link to save to disk. |
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| Discoverer, Op. 16: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 20, 2003: This piece by G. Stolyarov II evokes the image of a man submerged in a stream of exploratory thought, moving, by his own volition, toward unraveling the secrets of the natural world. |
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| Triumphant Endeavor, Op. 19: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 20, 2003: G. Stolyarov II portrays the nature of struggle, persistence, and triumph in the face of adversity in this radiant compositon. Right click on link to save to disk. |
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| Liberation, Op. 20: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 16, 2003: This composition by G. Stolyarov II reveals the true nature of liberty as experienced by the creative mind, not free from order, but free to relish it. Right click on link to save to disk. |
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| Dawn of the New Renaissance, Op. 21: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 16, 2003: Heralding the beginning of a new era, the return to harmony, rhythm, and heroic grandeur, the revival of an upright, luminous vision of Man, G. Stolyarov II presents this composition to the world. Right click on link to save to disk. |
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| Victory in the Persian Gulf, March #3, Op. 23: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| August 4, 2003: Affectionately known as "Saddam's Funeral March," this work by G. Stolyarov II is a celebration of the triumph of liberty and strategic brilliance that was the Second Persian Gulf War. |
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| Philosophy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Put the "Independence" Back in Independence Day: The Forgotten Meaning of America: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 4, 2003: Dr. Michael Berliner refutes the mystics of sacrifice and "interdependence" and speaks of the genuine, fundamental meaning of America's founding holiday. |
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| The Public-Private Ethical Distinction: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| August 15, 2003: In a treatise that objectively defines and categorizes etiquette, G. Stolyarov II explores the precise nature of the difference between "public" and "private" matters, and how an individual can and should apply it for his optimum self-interest. |
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| The Inexperienced: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| August 8, 2003: In this short story/play by G. Stolyarov II, a young rational composer confronts a world-renowned writer of "avant-garde" music. Learn of the primary philosophical issues which define the realm of auditory aesthetics, and the essence of this domain's greatest conflict. |
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| Poetry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fashionable Fallacies (#10-12): | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 15, 2003: G. Stolyarov II continues his series of lyric exposure of the dominant falsehoods of our time. |
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| Politics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A Campaign for Liberty: The Liberian Occupation: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 7, 2003: In an age wracked by the threat of terrorism, how conductive will the latest prospect of overseas intervention be to an essential American survival interest? G. Stolyarov II explores the issue and answers in the affirmative. |
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| A Cry from Zimbabwe: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 24, 2003: Steven Tennett, a computer manager in Zimbabwe's dictatorship-wracked capital, bears an urgent, essential message, and plea, for the peoples of the free world. |
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| Be Prepared!: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 3, 2003: With the forthcoming rapid disintegration of the welfare state, what are the most rational and selfish means an individual can employ to ready himself for the advent of true capitalism? Michael Miller addresses this question. |
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| The Fundamentals of Laissez-Faire Meritocracy: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 31, 2003: Unraveling a new theory of government. extrapolated from Objectivist politics, G. Stolyarov II suggests a model for a society impervious to subversion by regulators, usurpers, and pressure groups. |
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