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July 2019

July 19, 2019
The grand contradiction of The Fountainhead is that it was written to denounce those who...
July 17, 2019
Last Friday, I attended one of the hundreds of Lights for Liberty candlelight vigils that...
July 15, 2019
Seekers of truth face an ultimate question that overrides all others.
July 12, 2019
Continuing this year's theme of hope and resistance, here's a timely reminder from The Strumbellas...
July 12, 2019
Why you shouldn't build a city in a desert.
July 10, 2019
SEEK THE GARDEN
July 08, 2019
It's difficult for sincere doubters to talk with sincere believers without causing bad feelings.
July 05, 2019
Why there are no second chances in Ayn Rand novels, and America's infrastructure maintenance time...
July 03, 2019
In just the few days since I wrote my post about American concentration camps, the...
July 01, 2019
Secularism and freedom of conscience are hard-won rights at the heart of modern democracy.

June 2019

June 27, 2019
In this story, the bad guy wins.
June 26, 2019
The Supreme Court recently upheld a huge cross on public land as constitutional, a decision...
June 24, 2019
Except for a fringe of fundamentalists, the nation lives as if God doesn't exist.
June 21, 2019
Ayn Rand repeats her Big Lie about slavery and envisions a justice system that runs...
June 19, 2019
A joyous and long-overdue adaptation, even if it tries a little too hard to be...
June 17, 2019
Conservative believers contradict the values of the social gospel taught in the New Testament.
June 14, 2019
Ayn Rand's philosophy holds that having to interact with your fellow human beings is a...
June 13, 2019
The powers that be at Patheos have recently rolled out a sitewide keyword filter for...
June 12, 2019
The miracle cures that genetic science promised us are finally arriving.
June 10, 2019
Shrinkage of respected churches leaves more low-respect ones behind.
June 07, 2019
It's easy to make history fit your ideological framework when you can make up whatever...
June 05, 2019
We shouldn't settle for reassurances that our present system is "good enough"; we should ask...
June 03, 2019
The Templeton Foundation must be near desperation in its quest for "spiritual realities."

May 2019

May 31, 2019
The only accusations that the bad guys are allowed to make are the ones that...
May 29, 2019
I'm nearly finished with my review of The Fountainhead. There's just three more chapters to...
May 27, 2019
By James A. Haught Under the right circumstances, a brave freethinker can rescue a fundamentalist...
May 24, 2019
How bad zoning perpetuates segregation and the affordability crisis.
May 22, 2019
We knew on election night that reproductive rights were facing extinction in much of the...
May 20, 2019
  By James A. Haught In the mid-1800s, an imprisoned Persian allegedly saw a vision...
May 17, 2019
The central animating principles of The Fountainhead and of Atlas Shrugged are fatally at odds.
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