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| A Journal for Western Man-- Issue XVII | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Anniversary Manifesto: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| August 30, 2003: The Rational Argumentator's statemement of accomplishment during its first year of existence, along with an establishment of key objectives for the future. |
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| Literary Analysis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Ishmael Paradigm: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| October 10, 2003: A dauntless review and refutation by G. Stolyarov II of an environmentalist propaganda novel that has become a sacred cow of modern academia. |
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| Music | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Inventor, Op. 18: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| October 10, 2003: A ragtime-style composition by G. Stolyarov II portraying the radiant forward stride of the innovative mind. |
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| Freedom Minuet, Op. 22: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| August 27, 2003: This work is written by G. Stolyarov II in a classical format and with a melody that expresses the concept of rational liberty, of civilized and self-structured freedom. |
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| Fount of Clarity, Op. 24: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| September 29, 2003: This composition by G. Stolyarov II evokes the image of absolute transparency and certainty, like the texture of water rushing from an ornate fountain, and the desired nature of ideas in the mind. |
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| Philosophy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anti-Concepts of the Modern Newspeak: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| October 10, 2003: Expanding upon G. Stolyarov II's analysis of Newspeak in Orwell's 1984, this essay relates some frightening linguistic trends in the society of today, heading toward the elimination of individualism and objective reason. |
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| Fur Coats and Jewelry: Rationality or Ritual?: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| August 25, 2003: For those not dreading a rational analysis and scrutiny of a ubiquitous and generally uncontroversial cultural norm, this essay by G. Stolyarov II is a prime exercise in objective aesthetics. |
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| The Orwellian Popular Culture of Modernity: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| October 12, 2003: G. Stolyarov II elucidates some frightening parallels between government-imposed popular culture in 1984 and the leftist-elite-endorsed mass conformity of today. |
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| Politeness and Objective Ethics: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| August 25, 2003: An extrapolation upon �The Public-Private Ethical Distinction� by G. Stolyarov II, which explains the egoistic foundations of tact, courtesy, and manners. |
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| The Ten Commandments vs. America: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| September 5, 2003: Examining the Ten Commandments will demonstrate that they are indicative not of a mindset of freedom but of subservience to a cosmic despot, argues Dr. Harry Binswanger. |
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| Time to Celebrate Man's Mind: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| September 5, 2003: We had just had a holiday to celebrate production by crude force of muscle, but America has no official holiday exalting the key, intellectual facet of creation. However, states Fredric Hamber, the men of the mind are in fact the most significant source of economic progress. |
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| Poetry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fashionable Fallacies (#13-18): | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| August 25, 2003: New philosophical satire in verse by G. Stolyarov II, scathingly exposing the thought blunders of our time. |
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| Politics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NYSE Chairman Should Have Kept His Money�and Been Proud of It: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| September 29, 2003: It is time, writes Dr. Edwin A. Locke, to recognize the moral right of businessmen to the fruits of their work. Instead of resigning over his accumulated pay, Mr. Grasso should have proclaimed his right to it with individualistic dignity. |
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| Will Rogers on Government: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| August 31, 2003: The piercingly true humor of the comedian who derided big government continues to linger today, and Dr. Gary M. Galles reveals it in all of its wit and profundity. |
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| Wrath to Come: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| August 31, 2003: Welfare statists have long bought their votes with handouts, but that policy, argues Michael Miller, is doomed to failure. The government distribution apparatus shall not linger for any protracted period of time, and citizens must recognize the values that only a free market can offer them. |
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