Vague language in Executive Order 927 leaves one to wonder who might harass whom. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Even as the ACLU frets over the privacy of people chatting with Al Qaeda on their cell phones or googling bomb-making instructions on public library computers, a more serious threat to civil liberties and personal […]
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by Bruce S. Thornton and Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers [Editor’s Note: In the Sunday February 5, 2006 edition of the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Fresno-based Times reporter Mark Arax published an essay purportedly about how acrimony over 9/11 issues, Iraq, and the war on terror has divided his community “The Valley’s Not So Civil War”. In fact, the piece
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by Bruce S. Thornton The New Individualist {This copyrighted article first appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of The New Individualist and is reprinted by permission.} Share This
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Is UCLAProfs end academic freedom or McCarthyism? by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The politicizing of the American university is a fact. Share This
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“Therapism” offers an unsavory salve for emotional trauma. by Bruce S. Thornton Commentary A review of One Nation Under Therapy. How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance by Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel (St. Martin’s Press, 310pp, $23.95). Share This
War critics offer nothing new in 2006 by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers History, the Roman historian Livy said, is the best medicine for a troubled mind. Share This
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Spielberg’s Munich offers only moral evasion by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Technical or artistic skill cannot compensate for moral confusion. This simple truth about art is as old as Plato, and applies to popular art like the movies as much as it does to high art. Share This
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Iraqis know freedom’s knock better than our liberal media. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers The election last Thursday in Iraq, the third since the U.S. invaded, is an astonishing historical event in the Muslim Middle East. Share This
This Thanksgiving shake off false notions of the nobel savage. by Bruce S. Thornton Private Papers Thanksgiving Day is perhaps our favorite time to indulge our collective idealizations of the past. Share This
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by Bruce S. Thornton The New Individualist This copyrighted article first appeared in the July 2005 issue of The New Individualist [http://www.objectivistcenter.org/navigator/index.asp], and is reprinted by permission. Share This
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