Atlas Shrugged Part II: The Strike, opened in over 1,000 theaters in the United States last month. I saw the film during the opening weekend and would highly recommend it to interested Torch readers. The film is the second installment of the cinematic adaptation of Ayn Rand’s epic 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged. As of November [...]
Election season is well underway. So far, both campaigns have been marked by little more than sneering at the other side. The Obama campaign demands that Romney publicly report all his tax returns, while conservatives sarcastically retort that perhaps Obama might want to show the public his college transcripts. In the age of Twitter, Facebook, [...]
“Unity.” “Democracy.” “Diversity.” “Understanding.” All of these words are nearly universally lauded by the Western population. It is values like these, the average citizen thinks, that have helped our nations lift themselves out of the muck of social malfeasance and political infancy the human race got stuck in for so long. On the contrary, rigid [...]
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A review of Jason Brennan’s The Ethics of Voting It’s election year. That means the news is abuzz with statistics, primaries, caucuses, candidates, political gaffs, and every other sundry item related to the public disaster that is American political life. Tying nearly all of these issues together is an action that occurs every two years. [...]
In the present struggle between the university and opponents of the new “nondiscrimination” policy, there is absolutely no one who has done more to bring this issue to the nation’s attention than Dr. Carol Swain. Officially, she is Professor of Political Science and Law at Vanderbilt University. But for those who watch Hannity or Lou [...]
“Who is John Galt?” asks the new movie Atlas Shrugged Part 1, directed by Paul Johansson and produced by Harmon Kaslow and John Aglialoro. This movie adaptation is the first in a film trilogy of Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged. Set to be released on April 15, the movie will be shown locally at the [...]
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