Y2K has come and gone, and the modern world (for good or ill) is still standing. In the United States, business and government spent heavily on Y2K fixes; in foreign countries, much less. Yet the results were similar: Y2K was a false alarm. Why were so many computer-savvy people mistaken? The reason computers did not...
Author: Peter Erickson (Peter Erickson)
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Mind-Numbing Egalitarianism
Modern egalitarianism can be mind-numbing, as two recent incidents—the first in the Southwest, the second in the Midwest—show. The first, of course, is the shooting spree at Columbine High School. Most of Dylan Klebold’s and Eric Harris’s victims were either Christians or athletes. The former were murdered simply because they were Christians. The killers asked...
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The Fascist New Frontier
On December 16, 1962, Ayn Rand delivered a lecture at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston entitled “The Fascist New Frontier.” She began by quoting from an unidentified political platform which demanded profit-sharing, government care for the aged, legislation favorable to small businesses, government scholarships, public health and “the Common Good before the Individual Good.”...