Gena Gorlin
The Great Health Care Squabble: A Battle of Ideas?
Are those who oppose health care reform simply racist? Or perhaps just trying to fill their unemployment-related free time? Two…
Obama the Intellectual?
Some say we finally have a President who is a thinker. Do we? An “open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual”—this was New…
Study Ayn Rand’s Ideas
As more and more young people become interested in Ayn Rand's ideas and methodology, there is an increasing need and…
Testimonial of an OAC Graduate
The primary purpose of the OAC is to teach students about Objectivism. However, in my case the program also provided…
How Not to Lie with Statistics: The Good, the Bad, and the Average
The formula is painfully familiar— “According to a recent survey by X from the University of Y,” followed by a…
Matter Over Mindlessness: Neo-Buddhism No Cure for Harvard’s Depression
In its usual capacity as scholastic trend-setter, Harvard University unleashed a strange phenomenon on academia last year: amid the marble…
Joining Heart and Head: A Cure for the House, MD Blues
It is a common view that the quest for truth breeds misery-as echoed lately in viewer responses to House, MD.…
Don’t Be Evil, Google
In launching Google.cn on January 25th, the beloved search engine caved in to the Chinese government's demand that it block…
Chronicles of Narnia: Christian Sheep in Lion’s Clothing
The buzz about Christian propaganda couched in Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe seems to have…
Harry Potter and the Half-Stumped Critics
By now few of our readers have eluded the fairy dust that has settled all over the world since Harry…