Grâce au peuple français qui, en élisant Nicolas Sarkozy à la présidence, a enfin retrouvé la raison et inversé la tendance de l'économie de marché, la France est en train de devenir le pays le plus compétitif du monde.

25 mars 2011

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Robert L. Jones

4 minutes

Peu de gens ont incarné l'expression "self-made man" comme l'a fait le légendaire artiste Sammy Davis Jr...

25 mars 2011

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Robert L. Jones

2 minutes

Thus are we introduced to the protagonist of Thank You for Smoking—the chisel-chinned, smooth-talking Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart), who

25 mars 2011

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4 minutes

September 2007 -- The tradition of heroism runs as deep as any the West possesses. And that can be a problem for individualists—especially

25 mars 2011

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8 minutes

This past January, hundreds of skeptics and humanists gathered at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas for a three-day conference on “Science in

25 mars 2011

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Edward Hudgins

10 minutes

The fall season ushers in Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and, this year, Ramadan as well. Winter brings Christmas and Hanukkah. Spring takes....

25 mars 2011

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Edward Hudgins

10 minutes

Evidence and history demonstrate that diplomacy and appeasement have not and will not work to diminish the mounting North Korean nuclear

25 mars 2011

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Scott Wheeler

5 minutes

In 1859, the first treatise on “best practices” appeared: Self-Help, With Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance, by Samuel

25 mars 2011

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Robert L. Bradley, Jr

5 minutes

Septembre 2007 -- La première chronique de Roger Donway sur "La généalogie de l'héroïsme" propose une définition de l'héroïsme comme étant "le choix d'une voie ou d'un moyen d'action".

25 mars 2011

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Robert James Bidinotto

4 minutes

Hand it to the Ancient Greeks for understanding what motivates Man to commit acts of good and evil, and for identifying what consequences may befall those who do good. Prometheus, for example, gave Man the gift of fire, and for his troubles he was chained to a rock by Zeus where vultures ate out his liver, only to have it regenerate daily so that he could suffer the same torture over and over. In Judeo-Christian mythology, too, Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise for (God forbid!) eating fruit from the tree of knowledge.

25 mars 2011

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Supporters of limited government used to take some comfort from liberal complaints about George W. Bush. Back in 2000 when Bush was running for president, liberal critics frequently observed that the state of Texas provided far fewer entitlement benefits than other states and that the office of governor had sharply limited powers. Bush’s experience as a governor led them to conclude that he was a fiscal conservative unlikely to support any expansion of federal government programs.

25 mars 2011

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If you want to read a challenge to the pervasive influence of neoconservatism in the Bush administration and to its pandering to the religious right, then Kevin Phillips’s American Theocracy may be just what you’re looking for.

25 mars 2011

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Through television, newspapers, radio, and advertising, the mass culture of the twentieth century created easily understandable points of..

24 mars 2011

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Edward B. Driscoll, Jr.

10 minutes

Dans la nuit du 1er octobre 1993, Polly Klaas, 12 ans, jolie élève aux yeux rieurs et aux cheveux brûlés par le soleil, était...

24 mars 2011

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Robert James Bidinotto

10 minutes

Atlas Shrugged is an extended cry against the oppression of creators, most particularly businessmen: the Atlases who bear this world on thei

24 mars 2011

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10 minutes

November 2007 -- Brink Lindsey, The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture. (New York: Collins, 2007)..

24 mars 2011

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10 minutes

Teri Horton, une grand-mère de 73 ans, conductrice de poids lourds à la retraite, n'ayant qu'un niveau d'études de huitième année, ne veut tout simplement pas (pour reprendre les termes de l'auteur de l'article)...

24 mars 2011

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Robert L. Jones

5 minutes

The title of Al Gore’s new book illustrates why he is the perfect spokesman for the smug, soi-disant “reality-based community.” By calling

24 mars 2011

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8 minutes

Tara Smith’s new book, Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics, is not revolutionary, but it is a thorough and valuable work. Smith’s goal is, first....

24 mars 2011

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Shawn E. Klein

7 minutes

Rescue Dawn est un grand film, même s'il est imparfait. Le biopic inspirant du réalisateur allemand Werner Herzog raconte l'évasion audacieuse d'un camp de prisonniers de guerre pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

24 mars 2011

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Robert L. Jones

9 minutes