On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King Jr. stood before a crowd of nearly a quarter-million people. The moment is iconic. His words — which may already be echoing in your mind — captured something vitally important: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live … Continue reading Why ‘Colorblindness’ on Race Matters More than Ever
Category: Essays
When it was published in 2009, Anne C. Heller’s Ayn Rand and the World She Made was lavishly praised in umpteen reviews and singled out as a New York Times Notable Book. What came to my mind after reading it, however, was the spirit of a notorious tabloid in The Fountainhead. Owned by Gail Wynand, The Banner is characterized as “the most … Continue reading P.S. “Ayn Rand and the World She Made” Is an Exploitative, Tabloid Biography
Who was Ayn Rand? In 2009, as if to confirm the unmet demand for a Rand biography, two books about her life were published: Jennifer Burns’s Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right and Anne C. Heller’s Ayn Rand and the World She Made. Marketed as objective, non-partisan accounts, both garnered extraordinary acclaim. Burns’s book was … Continue reading “Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right” Is Worse than Incompetent
The moral corruption of academia goes deeper than the Hamas war on Israel By Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo [Read the article at the Orange County Register]
Hamas’s massive surprise attack by land, sea and air has been likened to Israel’s “Pearl Harbor” moment. How could this have happened, anguished Israelis are asking, given the country’s outstanding military strength? The evident failures of military preparedness and intelligence are stunning. But there’s another, overlooked, failure that runs deeper — the failure to acknowledge … Continue reading After Israel’s “Pearl Harbor,” Nothing Less than Victory
Opening her first lecture at the historic Ford Hall Forum in 1961, Ayn Rand saw her audience as consisting mainly of her “antagonists” — liberals. Why did she choose to engage them? The briefest explanation is to tell you that in the 1930s I envied the “liberals” for the fact that their leaders entered political … Continue reading Ayn Rand’s Devastating Critique of ‘Liberals’
By Yaron Brook and Elan Journo Skeptic Magazine commissioned the following essay for a special issue on the theme of nationalism (vol. 27, no. 4 / Dec. 2022). This article was reprinted in New Ideal. America is being torn apart. Amid growing strife, many people are experiencing angst concerning the future of this country, a … Continue reading Why Nationalism Is Hostile to America
By Ben Bayer and Elan Journo “Ukraine has made nationalism cool again” — “Nationalism’s finest hour” — “Ukraine shows we live in a nationalist world.” Articles with these provocative titles began to appear shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. All were authored by prominent advocates of “national conservatism.” They continued to press the theme in … Continue reading Putin’s War Embodies National Conservatism’s Ideology
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