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The Rational Argumentator A Journal for Western Man-- Issue VI |
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Historical Analysis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rhazes: The Thinking Western Physician: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
September 29, 2002: G. Stolyarov II describes the life of a Persian doctor and philosopher who expanded and perpetuated the legacies of Hippocrates and Aristotle and formulated a metaphysical system extremely similar to Objectivism. |
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Philosophy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
America's Quiet War: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
September 21, 2002: Harry Roolaart discusses the anti-mind allies of the terrorists in the war against the United States... in America's own college campuses. Learn of the subtle front in the War on Terror. |
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Drifting Toward Socialized Medicine: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
September 21, 2002: Do patients have a right to health care? Dr. Richard G. Parker argues that, if that were the case, physicians would be virtual slaves. |
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Regulation in Medicine Kills: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
September 22, 2002: G. Stolyarov II recalls how bureaucratic need calculus prevented his middle school classmate from receiving a bone marrow transplant that could have saved his life. |
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Poetry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
False Artistry: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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September 30, 2002: G. Stolyarov II describes the sordid existence of the second-hander conformist "artist" who lacks originality and intricacy in his works as well as the root of his delusions. |
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On Happiness in Value: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
September 27, 2002: G. Stolyarov II explains that man's joy and his calculated labors are not antithetical, but rather mutually reinforcing, as they achieve the worthy purpose of man's life. |
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Why Poetry Must Rhyme: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
October 1, 2002: The term "poetry" in the relativist sense has come to mean just about any disjoint garble an "avant-garde artist" can think of. G. Stolyarov II refutes this absurdity by advocating form and rhyme within works worthy of such a title. |
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Politics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"Buy American" is Un-American: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
September 23, 2002: Dr. Harry Binswanger demonstrates the un-patriotism of economic restrictions on any scale, local, national, and... even global, demonstrating the ultimate incompatibility between individualism and collectivism based on lines drawn on a map. |
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Poverty of Thought: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
September 29, 2002: Steven Martinovich refutes the leftist sacred cow that poverty is the root cause of terrorism, pointing instead to the fanatics' malicious hatred of Western values and freedoms. |
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Punishing Politicians: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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September 27, 2002: Michael Miller suggests that bureaucrats who violate our rights must be treated in the same manner as unsanitary puppies and suggests political activism as a potent antidote to their misbehaviors. |
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Replacing the United Nations: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
October 3, 2002: Bruce Walker documents the blunders of the present UN infrastructure and offers a feasible substitute for maintaining world peace. |
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The End of Arafat: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
October 1, 2002; Contrary to the leftist establishment's delusions, Yasser Arafat is a violent, oppressive dictator, which, according to this article by Alan Caruba, justifies retaliation against him using force. |
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The Politics of Compromise: The Republican Prescription for Health Care: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
September 26, 2002: Dr. Richard G. Parker explains why the supposedly anti-big government Republicans are led to second every Democratic regulation scheme through their wicked altruist ethics. |
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The Virtue of "Playing God": | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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September 25, 2002: Alex Epstein discusses the desirability of cloning technology for the amelioration of human life. |
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