The New Individualist, June 2007
Volume 10: No. 6
“They do not want to own your fortune, they want you to lose it; they do not want to succeed, they want you to fail; they do not want to live, they want you to die . . . .”
—Ayn Rand,
Atlas Shrugged
OUR COVER:
Mass murderers—whether they are alienated loners or fanatical terrorists—may differ in their motives. But in action, they represent two faces of the same fundamental evil. To illustrate that point for this month's cover feature, art director David Sims has created an indelibly frightening image of these "blood brothers."
Contributors
Editor’s Desk: By Robert James Bidinotto
Speak for Yourself: Letters to the Editor
Private I: Libertarianism. Bourgeois or Bohemian?
.: OUT OF STEP :.
Bobos, Liberaltarians, and Hippies of the Right
By Roger Donway
A leading liberal Democrat extends an olive branch to libertarians and finds some takers. TNI’s senior editor tells libertarians why they should think twice about the arrangement.
by Edward Hudgins
Unannounced presidential candidate Newt Gingrich blesses a wedding of religion and politics in his new book. Ed Hudgins patiently explains—again—why that’s a lousy idea.
TNI’s Interview with Marsha Familaro Enright
By Sara Pentz
We all know that today’s schools are hostile to individualism. Well, what would an individualist educational system look like? Educator Marsha Enright tells us.
By Edward Hudgins
Environmentalism! Feminism! Socialism! In Wagner’s Die Walküre? A Washington opera reviewer found it all there; but this story ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings.
.: MAVERICKS :.
In Defense of Advertising by Jerry Kirkpatrick
Reviewed by Don Hauptman
Here’s something unique: an Objectivist defense of advertising by a marketing professor. And just as unique: a review of it by an Objectivist advertising writer and consultant.
.: REEL INDIVIDUALISM :.
The Seven Classic Documentaries Series:
Connections by James Burke
Reviewed by Edward Hudgins
In the third installment of his reviews of classic TV documentary series, Ed Hudgins revisits James Burke’s feisty tribute to the integrative capacity of the human mind.
300
Reviewed by Robert L. Jones
The story of the stand by a handful of Spartan soldiers against the massed Persian army is the stuff of epic legend. And it gets a proper tribute in this spectacular new film.
Miss Potter
Reviewed by Robert L. Jones
The story of the life of Beatrix Potter, author of immortal children’s books, is as enchanting onscreen as are the tales of her unforgettable fictional characters.
.: SOLILOQUY :.
Blood Brothers
by Robert James Bidinotto
School massacres. Snipers in cities. Serial killers. Suicide bombers. What’s behind the global upsurge in mass murders? And what can be done about it?
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