119 Articles tagged with: History

• The Legacy of Totalitarianism: An Interview with Alfred Kentigern Siewers

  Editor’s Note: Alfred Kentigern Siewers is associate professor of English at Bucknell University and 2018–2019 William E. Simon visiting fellow in religion and public life at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Pri… Read Article

• “Say ‘No’ to Victimhood”

  TPUSA News Interview with Jennifer Anju Grossman

  JT: Well Good morning Miss Grossman, It’s such a pleasure to have you here.JAG: Thank you, I’m so excited to be here.JT: So right off the bat, what advice do you have to the thousands of young … Read Article

• Ayn Rand and I, Part 1

  A blog by George H. Smith

  I never met Ayn Rand. I never saw her in person. I never corresponded with her. Yet this woman was to exert a profound influence on my life.

  I first learned of Ayn Rand in 1967, during the first of her three appe… Read Article

• Where Brawn Meets Brain

  Maybe it was the cover of Atlas Shrugged that caught the attention of the weight-lifting community.  Artist Nick Gaetano’s iconic cover art depicts a mountain of a man, chiseled and sculpted, lifting the weight of the world on his shoulders… Read Article

• Wonder Woman: Post-Feminist Heroine?

  The Amazons, the ancients tell us, were a violent bunch. “The Scythians call (them) Oiorpata, or as it may be interpreted, men-slayers (for Oeor signifies a man, and pata to kill),” says Herodotus. Hippocrates claimed that they cut off their r… Read Article

• Did Ayn Rand Foresee the Culture Wars?

  Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work… when you go to church… when y… Read Article

• Of Nudes and Knowledge

  One of the more poetic events in The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand is when the protagonist, Howard Roark comes to watch Dominique posing naked for Mallory's marble sculpture. The sculpture is of the human spirit destined for the Stoddard Temple. The th… Read Article

• Night of the Living DWEM

  1.       WE DEMAND the hiring of at least 10 additional tenure-track ethnic studies professors and a commitment to the retention of these professors, prioritizing underrepresented groups within the ethnic studies … Read Article

• Ayn Rand’s Thoughts on Israel

  On the anniversary of Israel's founding on May 14 1948, we can turn to Ayn Rand for insights about why such an economically successful state with an open society is so hated by its neighbors.

   

  East-West conflict and Israel

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• Understanding and Appreciating Art

  Michelle Marder Kamhi’s new book Who Says That’s Art? presents a “commonsense view” of the visual arts that owes much to Ayn Rand’s understanding of the essential nature of art. Yet Rand’s idiosyncratic pronouncements about particular… Read Article

• The Objective Values in Magna Carta

  Why should American Objectivists celebrate this medieval document? What does it say that is relevant to us? Can history and tradition be valuable in a philosophy based on reason?

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• The First Moon Landing 45 Years On

  On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first human beings to land and walk on the Moon. Armstrong is no longer with us to mark the anniversary of this incredible achievement. But Buzz has been active in keeping the dream of h… Read Article

• The Single Bullet That Killed 16 Million

  A century ago, on June 28, 1914, Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the emperorship of Austria-Hungary, along with his wife, on their visit to Sarajevo. 

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• D-Day and Enlightenment Values

  My late Uncle “Boots” Van Pelt was almost killed 70 years ago. He went ashore on Omaha Beach with the 29th Infantry Division on D-Day. After the initial troop landings, he was found and thought dead, but he roused as they were putting him in… Read Article

• Israeli Independence and Libertarian Blindness

  May 6, 2014 — When Israel declared its independence 66 years ago, pursuant to a UN resolution, David Ben Gurion promised the new state “will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of relig… Read Article

• Samuel Insull

   The 2014 Atlas Summit features a linked pair of presentations on Samuel Insull, one of the most praised and damned figures of the era of electrification in America. 

  Insull (1859-1938) was a co-founder of General Electric and a… Read Article

• America’s Productive Fathers: Capitalists Or Crony Capitalists?

  In a new article, “Reconsidering Gabriel Kolko: A Half-Century Perspective ,” Robert Bradley, Jr. and Roger Donway explain why libertarians should not embrace the views of historian Gabriel Kolko.

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• History of Capitalism (Part 2)

  Atlas Summit 2012 -- We hear all the time that “capitalism is the system that has shaped our world”. However, the fact that capitalism is a social system that has never existed in its full, perfect, and unregulated form is never mentioned. A… Read Article

• The History of Capitalism (Part 1)

  Atlas Summit 2012 -- We hear all the time that "capitalism is the system that has shaped our world". However, the fact that capitalism is a social system that has never existed in its full, perfect, and unregulated form is never mentioned. As Ay… Read Article

• Restoring the Constitutional Presidency (Part 2)

  Has the U.S. Presidency effectively become an elective monarchy in the modern era as the Presidential powers have expanded far beyond the scope envisioned by the Constitution's framers?  In this two-part talk law professor and author David N. … Read Article