The New Individualist, Fall 2008
Vol. 3: Numbers 10-12
“Now observe that in all the propaganda of the ecologists-amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for ‘harmony with nature’-there is no discussion of man’s needs and the requirements of his survival..”
—Ayn Rand, “The Anti-Industrial Revolution”
The Objectivist, January-February 1971
PRIVATE I: Service, No! A Militia, Yes! by Roger Donway
.: FREE SPIRIT :.
By Fred Cookinham
If you doubt Ayn Rand’s enduring impact on our culture, stand in the concourse of Grand Central Station and hold a sign bearing her name.
.: SELF-EXPRESSIONS :.
The Credit Crisis and Moral Hazards
By Eugene C. Holloway
Today’s crisis in banking and home loans became unavoidable when the federal government initiated policies that obliterated personal self-responsibility.
Mining Nature’s Ultimate Resource
by Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
Are the world’s mineral resources truly limited and in danger of depletion? Those alarmists who make this claim forget about nature’s ultimate resource.
.: MAVERICKS :.
Reviewed by James Joyner
Sure, the Republicans made a mess of the Iraq War. But the alternative to neocon foreign policy is not the tired old liberal interventionism of the past.
A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life by J. Craig Venter
Reviewed by Roger Donway
How can society best deal with creative geniuses who also happen to be complete jerks?
Pride: The Seven Deadly Sins by Michael Eric Dyson
Reviewed by Bradley Doucet
A book that begins with a promising exploration of authentic self-esteem sadly regresses to predictable promotion of racial-identity politics.
.: REEL INDIVIDUALISM :.
Reviewed by Robert L. Jones
Young filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney takes his camera to modern American campuses, and the result is a documentary that skewers the university PC enforcers.
.: SOLILOQUY :.
The Politics of Mutual Plunder
By Robert James Bidinotto
As we seek solutions to the soaring costs of oil and gasoline, the last things we need are for our government to “prime the pump” or to redistribute wealth.
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