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88Oxford Comma Fans Unite!
Oxford Comma activists are becoming more verbal about this beloved punctuation mark. They label their enemies fools, brigands, communists, anarchists, hard-headed, stubborn, insensible, and haters of cauliflower. Have you never heard of the Oxford Comma? We pity you. Read on, and it will be your fate no longer.
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87Review of Atlas Shrugged
The difficulty in reading Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s forcing the book to pull double-duty as both a novel about a national collapse and as a manifesto for her objectivist philosophy.
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85The Virtue of Stupidity: A Critique of Ayn Rand and Objectivism
A harsh critique of the philosophy of Ayn Rand, with comparisons with Kant, Hume and Descartes.
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84Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal and Family Values
I am neither liberal nor a conservative. There are things about the liberal platform that I find abhorrent. There are things about the conservative agenda that make me shudder. A friend of mine, who happens to be pagan (but who otherwise harbors...
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84What is Dominance
There's been a lot of talk about dominance on Hubpages lately. Some people say that it behooves a married woman to allow her husband to be dominant. This strikes me as odd, because if he is dominant, why does he need anyone to allow him to do...
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82The Ideal Form of a Hero
What makes someone a hero? Does one need to have a divine parent? Does one need superhuman strength or special powers? What constitutes heroic behavior? Is heroism synonymous with altruism? How has the connotation of heroism changed since Homeric...
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80Anthem essay contrasting names
Equality, a man of neglected intelligence, and Liberty, a woman of impossible ideas, come together to form their own outcast society. When Equality finally realizes that they needed names he called himself Prometheus and Liberty, Gaea. I believe Ayn...
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80Steve Jobs--A Dissenting View
"Steve Jobs, an American Disgrace. In The Nation, November 28, 2011, Eric Alterman presents a dissenting view of Steve Jobs who has received nearly universal praise since his death for his inventive genius and Ahab-like quest for perfection in Apple products
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81Individualism vs. Egoism: They Are Not the Same
Richard Van Ingram, 1991, linocut What we are seeing in the streets and hearing on the airwaves of our country at this moment has roots that run far deeper than categories such as “liberal” and...
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78Sam Harris and the Moral Failure of Science
A rebuttal to Sam Harris and his book The Moral Landscape. Provides a detailed critique of why his attempt at philosophy is sloppy at best and dangerously misguided at worst.
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