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Contributors to The Rational Argumentator

Last updated December 29, 2005

This is a list of the authors, artists, and composers who have had their works featured on The Rational Argumentator. The list of names is alfabetical by last name, each name followed by links to all TRA features by that individual, in chronological order. This index only contains TRA works published up to December 29, 2005. An updated list can be found in TRA's new Index of Contributors: http://rationalargumentator.com/contributors.html

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TRA Statements of Purpose:

Founding Manifesto: August 31, 2002

1st Anniversary Manifesto: August 30, 2003

2nd Anniversary Manifesto: August 31, 2004

3rd Anniversary Manifesto: August 18, 2005

Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM)

1. Opposition to DDT Increases Malaria in Uganda:- September 28, 2005

 

Robert Alef

1. Nihilist Mutants: A Discussion:- June 13, 2003

 

Jasen Alexander

1. The Real Romantic:- January 30, 2005

2. The Tool:- May 11, 2005

 

Americans for Free Choice in Medicine (AFCM)

1. Era of Big Government has Just Begun:- November 25, 2003

 

William Anderson

1. The Economics of the End of Life:- April 10, 2005

 

W. James Antle III

1. U.N. May Be a Casualty of the Iraq War:- March 26, 2003

2. Sweeping Aside the Heteronormative-- And Marriage?:- March 10, 2005

 

Alexei L. Antonov

1. The Paintings of Alexei L. Antonov:- February 27, 2004

 

Wendy D. Bateman

1. On Contemplation:- November 4, 2005

2. Fatalistic Nihilism in Memoirs of a Geisha:- December 19, 2005

 

Duncan Bayne

1. The Philosophy of Racism:- February 20, 2003

 

Harry Binswanger

1. "Buy American" is Un-American:- September 23, 2002

2. The Ten Commandments vs. America:- September 5, 2003

 

The Belarusian Review

1. Axis of Evil: Belarus- The Missing Link:- December 15, 2004

2. Lukashenko Introduces Ideology Officers in All Companies:- December 15, 2004

3. Another Belarusian NGO Threatened with Liquidation:- December 15, 2004

4. Belarusian Authorities Suspend Major Independent Newspaper:- December 15, 2004

5. Belarusian Government Signs Accord with Orthodox Church:- December 15, 2004

6. Belarusian President's Rating Hits Record Low:- December 15, 2004

 

Michael S. Berliner

1. On Columbus Day, Celebrate Western Civilization, Not Multiculturalism:- October 14, 2002

2. Put the "Independence" Back in Independence Day: The Forgotten Meaning of America:- July 4, 2003

 

Andrew Bernstein

1. The Nobel Prize Should Go To Those Who Really Support Peace:- October 21, 2002

 

David Bertelsen

1. Hey, Greenie, Wanna Get Rich?- March 30, 2004

 

Heike Berthold

1. America Has Grounded the Wright Brothers:- January 14, 2004

 

Charles Bloomer

1. Misunderstanding Free Speech:- April 23, 2003

 

Cyril Boynes, Jr.

1. Biotechnology: Out of Africa:- February 14, 2005

2. EU Position on DDT Violates Human Rights:- February 15, 2005

3. Facts versus Fears on Biotechnology:- March 8, 2005

 

Rejean Breton

1. Witch Hunt in Quebec Academia:- January 19, 2005

 

Sarah Brodsky

A Review of G. Stolyarov II’s Eden against the Colossus:- July 7, 2005

 

Yaron Brook

1. When Your Home Is Not Your Castle:- October 5, 2002

2. American Compassion in Iraq is Self-Destructive:- May 18, 2004

 

Alan Caruba

1. The End of Arafat:- October 1, 2002

2. The Truth Behind the Scare Mongering:- October 5, 2002

3. Demonizing Doe Run:- May 10, 2005

 

Ed Cline

1. America's Non-Resolve to Fight Evil:- January 23, 2003

 

George W. Cordero

1. The Birthday Cake:- August 11, 2004

 

Madeleine Cosman

1. Hecklers' Veto and Illegal Aliens:- August 26, 2005

2. Illegal Aliens and Medicine:- August 29, 2005

3. Illegal Aliens, Violence, and American Medicine:- September 3, 2005

4. Katrina, Osama, and Preemptive Surrender to Disaster:- September 5, 2005

 

Cox and Forkum Editorial Cartoons (John Cox and Allen Forkum)

1. Cox & Forkum: Vote of Nonconfidence:- May 19, 2004

2. Cox & Forkum: The Good, The Bad, The Media:- May 20, 2004

3. The Kerry Draft:- October 29, 2004

 

Rex Curry

1. Southerners Should Stop the Pledge of Allegiance:- December 14, 2004

2. Liberate Drug Dogs:- January 28, 2005

3. Stop Nazi Numbers:- February 7, 2005

4. The Wholecaust Museum and the Holocaust Museum:- May 11, 2005

5. Stop the Pledge of Allegiance in the New School Year:- August 1, 2005

 

Edmund Daleford

1. The Runner's Ambition:- September 2, 2002

2. Cost-Cutting at Patients' Expense: The Inherent Deprivation of Statist Health Care:- September 20, 2002

3. Daleford v. Stolyarov: A Euthanasia Debate:- October 13, 2002

4. Seeds of Rationality: A Review of Stolyarov's Struggle for the Future:- December 9, 2002

5. Rethinking the Legitimacy of Assisted Suicide:- June 27, 2003

 

Jacques-Louis David

1. The Paintings of Jacques-Louis-David:- February 27, 2004

 

John Dawson

1. Baby Kim's Secret Weapon:- February 19, 2003

 

Damon-A.H. Denys

1. The Paintings of Damon-A. H. Denys:- March 16, 2004

 

Philip DeVous

Utopian Solutions versus Real Corporate Social Responsibility:- December 16, 2005

 

Tom DeWeese

The Silver Bullet for Liberty:- August 10, 2005

 

Paul Driessen

1. Committing Malpractice on the World's Poor:- January 10, 2005

2. Skewed Ethics on Biotechnology:- January 14, 2005

3. Wishes and Horses for Africa:- January 28, 2005

4. Biotechnology: Out of Africa:- February 14, 2005

5. Facts versus Fears on Biotechnology:- March 8, 2005

6. Sustainable Development = Sustained Poverty:- March 22, 2005

7. Support ANWR Drilling-- Save Wildlife Habitats:- March 29, 2005

8. The Oracle at EI:- April 10, 2005

9. Wanted: CEOs with Courage and True Ethics:- April 18, 2005

10. People, Progress, and Planet-- Earth Day 2005:- April 23, 2005

11. Kyoto Heat Waves Hammer the Poor:- May 10, 2005

12. Double Standards on Disease Control:- May 21, 2005

13. Greenpeace Perpetuates Poverty and Malnutrition:- June 2, 2005

14. The Pot of Green Gold at the End of the Rainbow:- June 11, 2005

15. Should We Ban Chemotherapy, Too?:- July 22, 2005

16. Social Responsibility Doubletalk:- August 1, 2005

17. Get Out Your Bed Nets:- September 21, 2005

18. Human Rights That Really Matter:- December 14, 2005

 

Marty Duggan

1. The Struggle for Purpose:- February 6, 2004

 

Dianne Durante

1. Vitamins, Minerals, and Harry Potter:- July 4, 2003

 

Luke Edelman

1. The Hazing Incident: Veiled Martyrdom:- June 7, 2003

 

Henry Emrich

1. Why They Fear Us:- December 26, 2003

2. Coalition: The Problems and the Promise:- February 23, 2004

3. Determinism, Skepticism, Mysticism, and Subjectivism: Four Roads to Hell:- April 27, 2004

4. An Ex-SOLOist Speaks Out or What Went Wrong?:- December 30, 2004

 

Alex Epstein

1. The Betrayal of The Bush Doctrine:- September 16, 2002

2. The Virtue of "Playing God":- September 25, 2002

3. Thinking It Alone: - October 21, 2002

4. The Meaning of the Right to Vote:- December 2, 2002

5. End Social Security:- January 27, 2005

6. The Tyranny of Eminent Domain:- March 8, 2005

7. Drug Safety vs. the FDA:- March 8, 2005

8. The "Windfall Profits" Smear:- December 29, 2005

 

Jim Faber

1. The Perigo/Firehammer Philosophical Smackdown:- March 22, 2005

 

Suzanne Fields

1. Assisted Suicide: A Medical Oxymoron:- April 1, 2005

 

Reginald Firehammer

1. Perception: A Mistake at the Heart of Objectivist Epistemology:- June 26, 2004

2. Prudes and Passion:- July 27, 2004

3. My Confession and Apology:- September 26, 2004

4. SOLO's Perversion of Objectivism: Part 1: The SOLO Style:- November 12, 2004

5. SOLO's Perversion of Objectivist: Part 2: Why Lindsay Perigo Hates Me:- November 15, 2004

6. Wrong Premises, Errors, and Corruptions: Part 3: The Wrong Sense of Life:- November 27, 2004

7. Repress, Repress, Repress:- December 25, 2004

8. Existence Exists:- January 4, 2005

9. Feelings: Introduction to the Nature of Emotions:- January 20, 2005

10. Desires:- February 15, 2005

11. Efficient versus Right Thinking:- February 25, 2005

12. Liberty, Up in Smoke:- April 28, 2005

13. Atlas Shrugged: A Model for Individualist Revolution:- May 10, 2005

14. About Forums and Truth-- Part 1:- June 20, 2005

15. About Forums and Truth-- Part 2: - June 21, 2005

16. Religion and Absolute Moral Values:- July 22, 2005

17. Freedom of Speech Means Freedom to Offend:- August 11, 2005

18. Jimping the Sleeg:- August 28, 2005

19. Of Firsts, Silence and Truth:- December 14, 2005

20. Sex, Love, and Marriage:- December 15, 2005

21. Ayn Rand, Beauty, Love, and Tenderness:- December 16, 2005

 

Caspar David Friedrich

1. The Paintings of Caspar David Friedrich:- May 21, 2004

 

Gary M. Galles

1. The Wisdom of Grover Cleveland:- January 9, 2003

2. Jefferson on American Liberty:- January 21, 2003

3. Ben Franklin on Liberty:- February 18, 2003

4. Frederic Bastiat on Government:- March 27, 2003

5. H.L. Mencken on Liberty and Government:- April 21, 2003

6. Richard Cobden: Activist for Peace:- May 8, 2003

7. Edmund Burke on Liberty:- May 28, 2003

8. Walt Whitman on Government:- June 11, 2003

9. Lord Acton on Liberty and Government:- July 5, 2003

10. Will Rogers on Government:- August 31, 2003

11. Cato's Letters on Liberty and Property:- November 27, 2003

12. Remembering Karl Hess:- January 20, 2004

13. Thoreau and "Resistance to Civil Government:"- March 12, 2004

14. Liberation through Commerce:- April 12, 2004

15. Those Who Love to Pay:- May 7, 2004

16. The Mexican Truck Miasma:- July 6, 2004

17. A Screed on Need and Greed:- August 14, 2004

18. Consolidation:- October 23, 2004

19. Paternalism: A Faulty Analogy:- November 12, 2004

20. Why the Bill of Rights?:- January 9, 2005

21. Cicero on Justice, Law, and Liberty:- January 26, 2005

22. Why the Housing Scandals?:- February 11, 2005

23. Leave Fruit Aesthetics to the Consumer:- February 25, 2005

24. Tocqueville on Liberty in America:- April 27, 2005

25. Remembering Gustave de Molinari:- May 11, 2005

26. What Information Overload Can Teach Us:- June 19, 2005

27. Protection is Like War:- July 10, 2005

28. In Praise of Irreverence:- August 3, 2005

29. Learn the Constitution, Or Else:- December 29, 2005

 

Robert Garmong

1. Smashing Windows for Peace:- March 26, 2003

2. Liberty, Not Democracy, In Iraq:- May 15, 2003

3. Free Speech Protects Profit Makers, Too:- June 12, 2003

4. The Spirit of Columbia:- March 2, 2004

5. Privatize the Space Program:- March 2, 2004

6. Privatize Space Exploration:- July 6, 2004

7. Abolish the FCC:- September 16, 2004

 

Raven A. Geary

1. From Miracles to Murder: Objectivism and Religion:- October 1, 2004

 

Marc Geddes

1. Towards a Philosophy of Immortality:- July 22, 2004

 

Onkar Ghate

1. Censorship on Campus:- September 16, 2002

2. To Outsource or to Stagnate?:- September 15, 2004

3. Free Speech on Campus:- February 16, 2005

 

Doris Gordon

1. What Do Abortion Choicers Mean When They Tell Us: "Let's Get the Government Out of Our Lives"?:- May 8, 2003

 

Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey

1. The Quest for Indefinite Life I: Engineered Negligible Senescence:- July 29, 2004

2. The Quest for Indefinite Life II: The Seven Deadly Things and Why There Are Only Seven:- July 30, 2004

3. The Quest for Indefinite Life III: The Progress of SENS:- July 31, 2004

 

Fredric Hamber

1. Time to Celebrate Man's Mind:- September 5, 2003

 

David Harriman

1. Where Have You Gone, Isaac Newton?:- October 22, 2003

 

Dustin Hawkins

1. The Rights of Intervention:- February 27, 2004

2. Equality of Bad Law:- August 11, 2004

 

Nat Henthoff

1. Assisted Suicide: License to Kill:- April 1, 2005

 

Paul Hibbert

1. SABRE: Stress Analysis By REflection:- April 20, 2004

 

Stephen Hicks

1. Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics:- April 5, 2004

 

David Holcberg

1. Waksal Should Have Read Ayn Rand:- June 24, 2003

 

Hans-Hermann Hoppe:

1. My Battle with the Thought Police:- April 26, 2005

 

John Hospers

1. An Open Letter to Libertarians: - October 25, 2004

 

Will Hubbard

1. Anthropogenic Global Warming: The Fabricated Predator:- December 8, 2004

 

Edward Hudgins

1. Medicine Could Reach for the Stars, FDA Willing:- January 10, 2005

2. We Three Kongs:- December 19, 2005

3. Why We Give Gifts:
- December 29, 2005

 

Gary Hull

1. Thanksgiving: The Producer's Holiday:- December 2, 2002

2. Love and Selfishness:- February 16, 2005

 

Niger Innis

1. Wanted: CEOs with Courage and True Ethics:- April 18, 2005

2. Human Rights That Really Matter:- December 14, 2005

 

Elan Journo

1. American Compassion in Iraq is Self-Destructive:- May 18, 2004

 

Anna Kaluzny

1. Of "Liberty and Justice for All:" The American Eugenics Movement:- April 14, 2003

 

Scott Kauzlarich

1. The Social Security Scam:- March 16, 2005

2. The Best Guardian is Freedom:- April 7, 2005

3. A Libertarian Response to Loompanics Unlimited:- May 10, 2005

4. The Incredible Left:- June 19, 2005

5. Do Caribou Have More Rights Than People?:- July 10, 2005

6. The Price of Liberty:- August 10, 2005

 

Sam Kazman

1. Medicine Could Reach for the Stars, FDA Willing:- January 10, 2005

 

William K. Kelly

1. Diversity is Not Our Strength:- April 23, 2003

 

Irfan Khawaja

1. The Democrats and the Draft:- November 1, 2004

 

Kill Malarial Mosquitoes NOW! Coalition

1. Archbishop Desmond Tutu Joins Call for DDT to End Malaria: - November 4, 2005

 

Martin Kraegel III

1. The Incompatibility of Libertarianism and the Right:- October 12, 2005
 

D. Sasy Kumar

1. Message to India and the Third World: Westernise or Risk Your National Identity:- February 7, 2005

 

Gen LaGreca

Letter to the Editor: On Mr. Stolyarov's Review of Noble Vision:- August 13, 2005

 

Bryan Larsen

1. The Paintings of Bryan Larsen:- March 16, 2004

 

Chris Leithner

1. The Illusion of Household Wealth:- May 5, 2005

 

David Limbaugh

1. On Root Causes and Relativism:- November 17, 2002

 

Edwin A. Locke

1. The Meaning of Welch's Cave-In:- September 20, 2002

2. Give Real Meaning To Veterans Day:- November 13, 2002

3. On May Day Celebrate Capitalism:- May 1, 2003

4. On Flag Day Celebrate America's Core Values of Reason, Rights, and Science:- June 12, 2003

5. NYSE Chairman Should Have Kept His Money—and Been Proud of It:- September 29, 2003

 

Keith Lockitch

1. The Easter Masquerade:- May 1, 2003

2. The Real Museum Looters:- May 15, 2003

3. Intelligent Design is about Religion versus Reason:- December 29, 2005

 

Jan Maksymiuk

1. Returning to Good Old Ideology:- December 15, 2004

 

Alex Markov

1. Intervention:-October 6, 2004

 

Steven Martinovich

1. Poverty of Thought:- September 29, 2002

 

Martin Masse

1. The Epicurean Roots of Some Classical Liberal and Misesian Concepts:- November 21, 2005

 

Scott A. McConnell

1. The Meaning of Heroism:- September 20, 2002

 

Wendy McElroy

1. Missing: Males on College Campuses:- June 21, 2005

2. Parents Must Assert Rights Over School Authorities:- June 22, 2005

3. Congress Should Kill Discriminatory Domestic Violence Act:- June 28, 2005

4. The Right to Self-Defense:- July 14, 2005

5. Bad Research Leads to Bad Law:- July 20, 2005

6. On Campus, Only Some Free Speech Protected:- July 27, 2005

7. Is the Boy Scouts of America Public or Private:- August 3, 2005

8. Parental Rights vs. Public Schools:- August 10, 2005

9. Liberal McCarthyism on Abortion:- August 18, 2005

10. Will Colleges Respect Your Child's Rights?:- August 26, 2005

11. Gender Bias in Domestic Violence Treatment:- September 3, 2005

12. Paternity Case Marks Progress for Defrauded Parents:- September 7, 2005

13. Will Science Trump Politics in the Abortion Debate?:- September 21, 2005

14. Faith Based Initiative Stirs Debate:- September 28, 2005

15. The Culture War's Battle of Lexington:- September 28, 2005

16. A White Oppressor? Who, Me?: - October 12, 2005

17. Victims versus Victimhood:- October 21, 2005

18.
Cultural Competence: Coming to a School Near You?:- October 21, 2005

19. Preserving Culture, or Curtailing Freedom?:- November 4, 2005

20. PBS Film Ignites Fathers' Rights Debate:- November 21, 2005

21. Girls, Get Your Guns:- November 21, 2005

22. PBS Film Controversy Continues:- December 2, 2005

23. Will Universal Preschool Give All Kids a Head Start?:- December 2, 2005

24. PBS Continues to Probe into Biased Film:- December 7, 2005

25. Campus Conscience Police?:- December 29, 2005

26. Abuse of Temporary Restraining Orders Endangers Real Victims:- December 29, 2005

 

The Methuselah Foundation

1. Fountain of Youth Discovered? Ask the Mouse!:- January 5, 2005

 

Jean-Luc Migue

1. Witch Hunt in Quebec Academia:- January 19, 2005

 

Eric Miller

1. Individuals Together:- October 15, 2002

2. Wal-Mart, Immigrants, and Thomas Jefferson:- October 24, 2002

 

Michael Miller

1. Punishing Politicians:- September 27, 2002

2. Crime and... Non-Punishment:- October 4, 2002

3. Femspeak:- October 18, 2002

4. Quackgrass Activism:- November 28, 2002

5. A Christmas Card:- December 24, 2002

6. The Right to Arms:- January 20, 2003

7. Revolt by Jury:- February 14, 2003

8. Rush:- March 27, 2003

9. Cops:- April 19, 2003

10. Nihilism:- May 5, 2003

11. Nihilist Mutants:- May 29, 2003

12. Tax Heroes:- June 8, 2003

13. Double Your Money!:- June 23, 2003

14. Be Prepared!:- July 3, 2003

15. Wrath to Come:- August 31, 2003

16. Sick Chicken:- November 27, 2003

17. Only Money?:- May 10, 2004

18. Shelf Life:- September 10, 2004

19. Renaissance Now!: - November 4, 2004

20. Cultures:- December 25, 2004

21. Causality, Measurement, and Space:- January 21, 2005

22. Time, Clocks, and Causality:- January 28, 2005

23. Seeing Red: Intrinsic Redshifts, Stable Universe:- February 11, 2005

24. Focus on Existence:
- February 25, 2005

25. The Philosopher's Stone:- April 10, 2005

26. The Good Life:- May 11, 2005

27. Probability as Logic:- June 19, 2005

28. Ponzi State:- July 20, 2005

29. Apocalypse Never!:- August 11, 2005

30. Acid Test:- August 20, 2005

31. The Greenhoax Effect:- December 29, 2005

 

Steven Milloy

1. It's Decision Time for J.P. Morgan Chase's CEO:- March 22, 2005

 

Karen Minto

1. An Interview with Jaroslav Romanchuk:- December 15, 2004

2. An Interview with Dmitry Costygin:- March 1, 2005

 

Terence Monmaney

1. Involuntary Euthanasia in the Netherlands:- April 2, 2005

 

Patrick Moore

1. Corporate Social Responsibility in Peru:- June 28, 2005

 

Max More

1. Principles of Extropy:- September 21, 2004

 

Heidi C. Morris

1. Reason and Reality: The Logical Compatibility of Austrian Economics and Objectivist Ethics:- May 22, 2005

 

Luke J. Morris

1. Ayn Rand's Argument against Immeasurability:- January 16, 2005

 

Robert P. Murphy

1. Responses to G. Stolyarov II's Challenges to the Theory of Private Law:- June 22, 2005

2. But Wouldn't Warlords Take Over?:- August 9, 2005

3. The Possibility of Private Law:- August 9, 2005

4. An Austrian in Grad School: Confronting the Mainstream:- August 26, 2005

5. Mises' Non-Trivial Insight:- September 3, 2005

6. The Origin of Money and Its Value:- September 8, 2005

7. Psychology versus Praxeology:- September 13, 2005

8. Consumer Sovereignty: What Mises Meant:- November 2, 2005

9. The Alleged China Threat:- December  29, 2005

 

Robert Olson

1. The "Trigger of Justice" Debate: Olson v. Stolyarov:- November 17, 2003

2. Four-Thousand-Fold:- June 1, 2004

3. John Kerry: The Lesser of Two Evils:- November 1, 2004

 

Sara Pentz

1. The Shameful Legacy of Three TV Anchors:- September 5, 2005

2. The Media Brainwashing Machine:- October 3, 2005

3. The Mechanics of the Media:- October 3, 2005

 

Anthony Rabattini

1. Novice Thoughts on Objectivism:- July 14, 2005

 

Richard Parker

1. Government Controlled Medicine: The Destruction of the Physician-Patient Relationship:- September 18, 2002

2. A National Health ID Card:  Another Assault on the Physician-Patient Relationship:- September 19, 2002

3. Drifting Toward Socialized Medicine:- September 21, 2002

4. The Politics of Compromise:  The Republican Prescription for Health Care:- September 26, 2002

5. Abortion-- the Context from an Objectivist Physician:- October 11, 2002

6. The Hippocratic Humoural Theory: A Proper Philosophical and Historical Context:- May 9, 2003

7. HMOs and "Patients' Rights:" Rationing Medicine:- March 2, 2004

 

Rodney Rawlings

1. Rodney Rawlings: Reconstruction on Ground Zero: - February 9, 2004

2. Rodney Rawlings: A Musical Paean to Halley's Comet:- March 16, 2004

3. Errors of Modern Science: A Philosophical Magic Act:- March 30, 2004

4. Rodney Rawlings: Music for Tennyson's "The Princess:"- March 30, 2004

 

Orion Reasoner

1. FDA Warnings on Psychiatric Drugs:- April 21, 2004

2. SoloHQ: Perigo's Cult of Mandatory Informality:- November 30, 2005

 

Fred Reed

1. Thoughts on Poverty and Its Absence:- May 19, 2005

2. These Are Interesting Times:- August 16, 2005

3. A Dismal Reality:- October 12, 2005

4. Whimpering about Poverty:- October 12, 2005

 

George Reisman

1. Some Fundamental Insights Into the Benevolent Nature of Capitalism:- October 31, 2002

2. Social Security Reform: A Free-Market Alternative:- February 25, 2005

 

Vera Rich

1. Shushkevich on Neocommunism in Belarus:- December 15, 2004

 

Jonathan Rick

1. Ideas Matter: Why Civilizations Clash:- February 4, 2004

2. The Man Who Speaks to You of Sacrifice:- March 9, 2004

3. Campaign Finance Reform in Buckley v. Valeo:- March 20, 2004

4. Teach a Man to Fish:- May 7, 2004

5. First Thoughts on Free Trade:- June 21, 2004

6. The Immorality of Conscription:- July 20, 2004

7. Free Speech: Public Interest or Individual Right?:- August 21, 2004

8. Human Nature According to Niccolo Machiavelli, Karl Marx, and Ayn Rand:- September 10, 2004

9. A Free Market of, by, and for Human Life:- October 7, 2004

10. Is There No Shame?:- November 12, 2004

11. To Torture or Not to Torture?:- December 24, 2004



Francois-Rene Rideau

1. Rideau v. Stolyarov: A Debate of Anarchy versus Limited Government:- December 9, 2004

2. Patents Are an Economic Absurdity:- December 14, 2004

 

John Ridpath

1. America Needs a Leader Like George Washington:- February 19, 2003

 

Jaroslav Romanchuk

1. Why People by Default Choose Collectivism and Statism: The Socialists' Ideological Gambit:- June 2, 2005

2. Short and Long-Term Choices to Make to Win Power in Belarus: A Reminder to the Opposition and the Outside World:- June 4, 2005

 

Harry Roolaart

1. America's Quiet War:- September 21, 2002

2. Towards the End of America:- October 10, 2002

3. Pledge to Do What?- October 19, 2002

4. The Irrational Exhuberance of American Dining Etiquette:- December 2, 2002

5. What is Compassionate Conservatism?:- January 22, 2003

6. Nationalizing Corporate America:- February 18, 2003

7. The Fotografic Art of Harry Roolaart:- March 2, 2004

 

Larry Salzman

1. The Tyranny of Eminent Domain:- March 8, 2005

 

Miranda Sears

1. Take a Look in the Mirror:- January 4, 2004

 

Scott T. Schad

1. Moral Currency:- October 30, 2003

 

Wolfgang Scheide

1. Eine Objektivistische Stellungnahme der Beschlüsse:- June 21, 2004

 

Manfred F. Schieder

1. Schieder v. Stolyarov: An Abortion Debate:- August 13, 2004

2. Schieder v. Stolyarov: An Abortion Debate: Round 2:- August 18, 2004

3. Schieder v. Stolyarov: An Abortion Debate: Round 3:- August 31, 2004

 

Christopher Schlegel

1. The Professor's Experiment:- August 5, 2004

2. Plato's Ideas or How to Run an Effective Intellectual Scam:- August 10, 2004

3. Sleepytown:- August 17, 2004

4. The Tall Sky:- August 23, 2004

5. Christopher Schlegel: Waltz in A Major:- September 15, 2004

6. Christopher Schlegel: Waltz in A Minor:- September 21, 2004

7. Christopher Schlegel: Waltz in B-flat Major:- September 27, 2004

8. Christopher Schlegel: Waltz in B-flat Minor:- October 2, 2004

9. Christopher Schlegel: Waltz in E-flat Major:- October 7, 2004

10. Christopher Schlegel: Waltz in G Major:- October 23, 2004

11. Christopher Schlegel: Waltz in G-flat Minor:- October 25, 2004

12. Review of Eden against the Colossus by G. Stolyarov II:- November 18, 2004

 

Dave Schroeder

1. Liberal Democrats, Not "Neo-Cons," Trying to Bring Back Draft:- May 26, 2004

 

J. Neil Schulman

1. When Clones are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Clones: - May 4, 2003

 

Peter Schwartz

1. The Racism of "Diversity":- January 23, 2003

2. They Hate Us, Too:- March 26, 2003

3. American Appeasement in Iraq:- October 23, 2003

4. The Threat of the Paternalistic State:- May 18, 2004

 

Ivan A. Shatkin

1. Does the World Need Nuclear Weapons?:- April 28, 2004

 

Barbara Simpson

1. I'm Your Doctor and I'm Here to Kill You:- April 2, 2005

 

Wesley J. Smith

1. Can Hospitals Have the Right to Pull Your Plug?: - April 1, 2005

2. The Culture of Death Angels:- April 1, 2005

3. Can a "Right to Die" Be Turned into a Forced Fate?:- April 2, 2005

4. When Death is Our Physician: The Truth about the Assisted Suicide Movement:- April 2, 2005

5. Is Bioethics Ethical?:- April 3, 2005

 

Lawrence Stevens

1. Unjustified Psychiatric Commitment in the U.S.A.: - March 1, 2005

 

G. Stolyarov II

1. An Essay on the Necessities of Progress, Technological and Moral: - August 31, 2002

2. To Post-Modernists:- August 31, 2002

3. Identifying Antiprogressivism:- September 1, 2002

4. Fields of Desolation:- September 1, 2002

5. An Objectivist Condemnation of Abortion:- September 1, 2002

6. Panacea: How a Single Executive Decision Can Win Conservatives Victories on Three Fronts:- September 1, 2002

7. Navigator:- September 2, 2002

8. Please Help Us All, West:- September 2, 2002

9. Anti-Imperialism: The Smear Campaign Against Western Values:- September 2, 2002

10. A Tribute to Goethe:- September 2, 2002

11. No Tolerance:- September 2, 2002

12. The Right of Self:- September 2, 2002

13. An Essay on the Fallacies of Semantic Feminism:- September 3, 2002

14. The Bleeding Hearts' Hypocrisy:- September 3, 2002

15. Enlightened Monarch: The Story of Frederick the Great:- September 3, 2002

16. An Essay on the Genuine Meaning of Beauty:- September 4, 2002

17. The Rule of I:- September 4, 2002

18. Mugabe, the Protesters, and the Totalitarian Alliance:- September 5, 2002

19. An Essay Questioning the Validity of Religions:- September 6, 2002

20. Toy Soldiers:- September 6, 2002

21. The Tale of the Cowardly Climber:- September 7, 2002

22. Auditory Enlightenment:- September 8, 2002

23. On the Cancellation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty:- September 9, 2002

24. Voltaire:- September 9, 2002

25. Imperator:- September 10, 2002

26. An Address to Fundamentalists:- September 11, 2002

27. Aspirations:- September 11, 2002

28. The ABCs of a Desired Establishment:- September 11, 2002

29. Greatness Incarnate: An Analysis of the Life and Contributions of Napoleon Bonaparte I:- September 15, 2002

30. What is Conservatism?:- September 17, 2002

31. An Essay on Pleasure and the Desired Attitude Toward It:- September 19, 2002

32. The Morality of Cloning:- September 19, 2002

33. Bum:- September 20, 2002

34. Regulation in Medicine Kills:- September 22, 2002

35. On Happiness in Value:- September 27, 2002

36. Rhazes: The Thinking Western Physician:- September 29, 2002

37. False Artistry:- September 30, 2002

38. Why Poetry Must Rhyme:- October 1, 2002

39. Relativism is Racist:- October 4, 2002

40. Ayn Rand Institute versus Censorship:- October 8, 2002

41. Daleford v. Stolyarov: A Euthanasia Debate:- October 13, 2002

42. Light Replacing Darkness: A Story of Spanish Colonization in the Americas:- October 27, 2002

43. Upon an Ancient Mayan Ruin:- October 29, 2002

44. An Analysis of the Factors Affecting Early Western Expansion:- November 6, 2002

45. Airplane:- November 11, 2002

46. The Magnate and the Moon:- November 24, 2002

47. On Fundamentalism and the Need for Separation of Church and State:- November 27, 2002

48. The Thinker's Triumph:- December 4, 2002

49. William Harvey: The Bridge to the Scientific Revolution:- December 21, 2002

50. The Grievous Error of the Draft:- January 16, 2003

51. Christmas Demystified:- January 19, 2003

52. Upon the Shuttle Columbia Accident:- February 4, 2003

53. On the Periodicity of Pythagorean Triples and Their Association with Radial Numbers of Inscribed Circles:- February 6, 2003

54. Corollaries to Stolyarov's Theorem:- February 7, 2003

55. Orwell's Warning: Collectivism:- February 12, 2003

56. Orwell's Warning: Antiprogressivism:- February 14, 2003

57. Further Corollaries to Stolyarov's Theorem:- February 14, 2003

58. "Chicago:" The Decadence of Elitist Cinema:- February 16, 2003

59. Corollaries to Stolyarov’s Theorem Concerning the Macroperiodicity of Pythagorean Triple Progressions:- February 25, 2003

60. There Was a Time:- March 18, 2003

61. To Saddam Hussein:- March 26, 2003

62. Stolyarov’s Twelfth Corollary: Derivations of Angular Tangent Relationships Using Radial Periodicity of Fundamental Pythagorean Triples:- April 9, 2003

63. Orwell's Warning: Relativism:- April 10, 2003

64. Orwell's Warning: Doublethink:- April 11, 2003

65. Orwell's Warning: Popular Culture:- April 14, 2003

66. Orwell's Warning: Newspeak:- April 16, 2003

67. The Creator's Melody:- April 16, 2003

68. And Death Shall Be No More:- April 19, 2003

69. Orwell's Warning: Vaporization:- April 19, 2003

70. Orwell's Warning: The Origin of Tyranny:- April 29, 2003

71. The Caste Impeding India's Social Mobility:- May 4, 2003

72. On the Causes for the General Failures Encountered by Africa Post-Independence:- May 5, 2003

73. Hazing, Collectivism, and Traditionalism:- May 9, 2003

74. Refutations of Respectable Fallacies Concerning the Iraq War:- May 11, 2003

75. Illinois Tool Works: The Essence of Innovative Business:- May 16, 2003

76. Who Says Man's Body's Perfect?:- June 2, 2003

77. Nihilist Mutants: A Discussion:- June 13, 2003

78. Fashionable Fallacies (#1-2): - June 14, 2003

79. Fashionable Fallacies (#3-9):- June 16, 2003

80. Mixed Premises: A Critique of Murray Rothbard's "Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult:"- June 18, 2003

81. The Fundamentals of Stolyarovian Continuum Theory:- June 25, 2003

82. A Campaign for Liberty: The Liberian Occupation:- July 7, 2003

83. Fashionable Fallacies (#10-12):- July 15, 2003

84. Liberation, Op. 20: - July 16, 2003

85. Dawn of the New Renaissance, Op. 21:- July 16, 2003

86. Waltz #2, Op. 13:- July 18, 2003

87. Discoverer, Op. 16:- July 20, 2003

88. Triumphant Endeavor, Op. 19:- July 20, 2003

89. Anthem: The Prison of Collectivism and the Escape:- July 22, 2003

90. The Fundamentals of Laissez-Faire Meritocracy:- July 31, 2003

91. Victory in the Persian Gulf, March #3, Op. 23:- August 4, 2003

92. The Inexperienced:- August 8, 2003

93. The Public-Private Ethical Distinction:- August 15, 2003

94. Politeness and Objective Ethics:- August 25, 2003

95. Fur Coats and Jewelry: Rationality or Ritual?:- August 25, 2003

96. Fashionable Fallacies (#13-18):- August 25, 2003

97. Freedom Minuet, Op. 22:- August 27, 2003

98. Fount of Clarity, Op. 24:- September 29, 2003

99. The Ishmael Paradigm:- October 10, 2003

100. The Inventor, Op. 18:- October 10, 2003

101. Anti-Concepts of the Modern Newspeak:- October 10, 2003

102. The Orwellian Popular Culture of Modernity:- October 12, 2003

103. The Trigger of Justice:- October 21, 2003

104. The Evil of Forced Volunteerism:- November 3, 2003

105. The "Trigger of Justice" Debate: Olson v. Stolyarov:- November 17, 2003

106. An Exposition of Stolyarovian Functions:- November 17, 2003

107. Waltz #3, Op. 25:- November 17, 2003

108. Liberty in Exile:- November 27, 2003

109. The Rational Man's Dilemma:- December 21, 2003

110. The Mutability of Past:- December 27, 2003

111. Study #1 in C, Op. 6:- January 3, 2004

112. Exquisite Minuet (Minuet #2), Op. 26:- January 3, 2004

113. An Objective Filosofy of Linguistics:- January 5, 2004

114. 1984-Style Surveillance, Today:- February 20, 2004

115. The Orwellian Dystopia of Business Regulation:- February 20, 2004

116. The Challenge, Op. 28:- March 9, 2004

117. Eden Against the Colossus: Prologue:- March 19, 2004

118. An Objectivist Statement of Resolves:- March 20, 2004

119. A Review of Henry Emrich's Battlefield of the Mind:- April 26, 2004

120. The Lemmings:- April 26, 2004

121. On the Nature and Origins of Life:- April 28, 2004

122. Stolyarov's Formula of Comparative Abundance:- May 4, 2004

123. The Vile Draft I:- May 25, 2004

124. The Vile Draft II:- May 26, 2004

125. The Vile Draft III: A Call to Action- May 27, 2004

126. The Draft Dodger- June 2, 2004

127. A Rational Defense of Marriage:- June 11, 2004

128. Abortion versus Selfishness: Obstruction by Periferals:- June 16, 2004

129. A Review of Vilfredo Pareto's The Rise and Fall of Elites:- June 20, 2004

130. The New Renaissance Hat: A Symbol for the Revival of Reason:- June 20, 2004

131. The Mark of the Fanatic:- June 24, 2004

132. Michael Moore's Mystery Message:- June 28, 2004

133. Argumentum ad Experientiam:- July 6, 2004

134. Post-Veto Authority:- July 11, 2004

135. Tale of an Arabic Mathematician:- July 16, 2004

136. Eden against the Colossus: Chapter I:- July 17, 2004

137. The Necessity of Road Privatization:- July 17, 2004

138. Mistakes Concerning Infinity:- July 21, 2004

139. Monologue of Immortal Man:- July 30, 2004

140. A Review of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's Democracy: The God that Failed:- August 12, 2004

141. Schieder v. Stolyarov: An Abortion Debate:- August 13, 2004

142. Schieder v. Stolyarov: An Abortion Debate: Round 2:- August 18, 2004

143. Advertise Permanently on TRA for $1 to Fight Aging:- August 23, 2004

144. Lukashenko: The Antithesis of Freedom:- August 23, 2004

145. A Review of Christopher Schlegel's Symphony #3: The Virtues of Man:- August 29, 2004

146. Schieder v. Stolyarov: An Abortion Debate: Round 3:
- August 31, 2004

147. A Review of Christopher Schlegel's Piano Waltzes:- September 4, 2004

148. On Poetic Clarity:- September 10, 2004

149. A Review of Christopher Schlegel's Symphony #6: The Values of Man:- September 16, 2004

150. Machiavelli and Erasmus Compared:- September 16, 2004

151. A Review of Christopher Schlegel's Piano Concertos 1 & 2:- September 27, 2004

152. An Intellectual Adventure:- October 2, 2004

153. The Objectivist-Extropian Synthesis:- October 14, 2004

154. John Kerry against Our Sacred Liberties:- October 27, 2004

155. A Review of John Enright's Unholy Quest:- November 27, 2004

156. Rideau v. Stolyarov: A Debate of Anarchy versus Limited Government:
- December 9, 2004

157. The Province of the Liberal Arts:- January 3, 2005

158. The Human Personality, Just Laws, and Laissez-Faire:- January 3, 2005

159. The Immorality of Government Tsunami Relief:- January 3, 2005

160. A Review of Christopher Schlegel's Until:- January 16, 2005

161. Somebody Else:- January 20, 2005

162. Goddess of the Mind: A Tribute to Ayn Rand:- February 2, 2005

163. Professor Hoppe against Political Correctness:- February 8, 2005

164. A Call for the Urgent Abolition of Social Security:- March 1, 2005

165. What Free Speech is Not:- March 8, 2005

166. Against Humility:- March 10, 2005

167. A Review of Christopher Schlegel's Symphony #1 in C Major:- March 16, 2005

168. A Principled and Fundamental Opposition to the Savage Murder of Terri Schiavo:- March 26, 2005

169. Thirty-Three Challenges to Robert Murphy's Theory of Market Anarchy in Law and Defense:
- April 1, 2005

170. The Fysicalist View of Life, Consciousness, and Volition:- April 28, 2005

171. To Liberalize or to Perish: The Political and Economic Future of Europe:- May 22, 2005

172. Homosexuality: A Chosen Harm:
- May 26, 2005

173. The Objectivity of Consciousness:- June 5, 2005

174. A Review of Gen LaGreca's Noble Vision:- June 11, 2005

175. Minuet #5 (Renaissance Minuet), Op. 39:- June 20, 2005

176. Waltz #4, Op. 40:- June 20, 2005

177. Prelude #2, Op. 41:- June 20, 2005

178. Minuet #6 (Baroque Minuet), Op. 43:- June 20, 2005

179. A Review of Christopher Schlegel's Symphony #2 in E Minor:- June 20, 2005

180. A Review of Christopher Schlegel's Symphony #4 in F Major:- June 21, 2005

181. A Review of Christopher Schlegel's Symphony #5 in G# Minor:- June 21, 2005

182. Noble Aspirations, Op. 42:- June 21, 2005

183. March #7 (Glory and Purpose), Op. 44:- June 21, 2005

184. The Axiomatic, Ubiquitous, and Commonsense: - July 6, 2005

185. Apollo v. Stolyarov or How Not to Behave in an Argument:- July 13, 2005

186. How Can One Design a Better Widget?:- July 18, 2005

187. Not So Objective "Objective Medicine:"- July 21, 2005

188. Premises and Practices of an Effective Rational Orator:- July 23, 2005

189. On Relationships Prior to Marriage:- July 28, 2005

190. Rational Argumentation in Text:- August 5, 2005

191. The War on Our Own Citizens: Airport "Security":- August 8, 2005

192. Chaos Theory is not Chaotic:- August 13, 2005

193. Extremism versus Fanaticism:- August 16, 2005

194. The Fundamental Cultural Antagonism:- August 18, 2005

195. On Old-Fashioned Progress:- August 23, 2005

196. The Nature and Purpose of Literary Analysis:- August 28, 2005

197. A Rational Cosmology: Introduction:- September 16, 2005

198. A Rational Cosmology: Chapter II: The Universe:- September 16, 2005

199. A Rational Cosmology: Chapter III: Space:- September 16, 2005

200. A Rational Cosmology: Chapter IV: Change and Time:- September 16, 2005

201. A Rational Cosmology: Chapter V: Motion:- September 16, 2005

202. A Rational Cosmology: Chapter VI: Waves:- September 16, 2005

203. A Rational Cosmology: Chapter VII: Light:- September 16, 2005

204. A Rational Cosmology: Chapter VIII: Forces:- September 16, 2005

205. A Rational Cosmology: Chapter XIII: The Implications of Rational Cosmology:- September 16, 2005

206. Austrian School Arguments on the Free Market Origin of Money: - October 3, 2005

207. Austrian Economics and Marginal Utility:- October 5, 2005

208. Austrian Economics and Time Preference:- October 5, 2005

209. Austrian Economics and Roundabout Processes of Production:- October 5, 2005

210. A Defense of the Right:- October 12, 2005

211. Austrian Economics and Models of Rest:- November 2, 2005

212. The Austrian School View of Income Types in the Evenly Rotating Economy:- November 2, 2005

213. Austrian Economics and Kirznerian Entrepreneurship:- November 2, 2005

214. Austrian Economics and Hayek's View of the Market Process:- November 2, 2005

215. Austrian Economics and Consumer Sovereignty:- November 2, 2005

216. Monogamous Casual Intercourse: Contradiction in Terms:- November 21, 2005

217. Praxeology and Certainty of Knowledge:- December 7, 2005

218. Kent Worthington on Consistency and Contradiction: How Ideas Work Review Series: Part I- December 18, 2005

219. Kent Worthington on Similarity and Difference: How Ideas Work Review Series: Part II- December 19, 2005

220. Kent Worthington on Cause and Effect: How Ideas Work Review Series: Part III- December 19, 2005

221. Kent Worthington on Inference and Proof: How Ideas Work Review Series: Part IV- December 20, 2005

222. Kent Worthington on Certainty and Error: How Ideas Work Review Series: Part V- December 20, 2005

223. Natural Law and the Impropriety of Self-Sacrifice: A Review of the "Chronicles of Narnia" Film:- December 29, 2005

224. Wealth is Produced:- December 29, 2005

 

Steven Tennett

1. A Cry from Zimbabwe:- July 24, 2003

 

Ray Thomas

1. Ayn Rand and the Intellectuals:- May 21, 2003

 

C. Bradley Thompson

1. Our Killing Schools:- October 6, 2002

2. An Open Letter to the People of Iraq:- January 13, 2004

 

William Tingley

1. Tradition and Objectivism:- January 27, 2005

 

Eric J. Tower

1. Save Lives; Privatize Space:- April 5, 2004

 

Joe Trusnik

1. Converting to Objectivism:- June 28, 2004

 

Johannes Vermeer

1. The Paintings of Johannes Vermeer:- March 2, 2004

 

Bill Walker

1. The End of Cancer:- May 4, 2005

 

Bruce Walker

1. Replacing the United Nations:- October 3, 2002

2. Animals, Humans, and Moral Purpose:- October 4, 2002

3. Men as Dhimmi:- October 25, 2002

4. Political Issues in a Post-Leftist World:- December 15, 2002

 

John Walker

1. On Assisted Suicide:- June 14, 2003

 

C. Andrew Warren

1. Iniquity: Modern Slavery:- June 18, 2003

 

The Washington Post

1. Europe's Armory for Terrorism:- December 15, 2004

 

Don Watkins III

1. Atheism: The Rational Alternative:- September 18, 2002

2. But It's Fun!:- September 18, 2002

3. Capitalism Is Moral:- September 18, 2002

4. God: Examining the Arguments:- September 18, 2002

5. Hero Born Again:- September 18, 2002

 

Steven Weingarten

1. When Smoking Gets in Your Eyes: Separating the Facts from the Fiction:- April 19, 2003

 

Stephen Yates

1. Biases of the Intellectual Classes:- December 4, 2002

2. What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action:- January 29, 2003

 

Edward W. Younkins

1. The Congruity among Ayn Rand's Metaphysics, Epistemology, Value Theory, and Ethics:- August 17, 2004

2. Mises, Friedman, and Rand: A Methodological Comparison:- January 31, 2005

3. The Robert Stadler Story: The Moral Fall of a Man Who Knew Better:- February 11, 2005

4. A Review of Andrew Bernstein's The Capitalist Manifesto:- July 26, 2005

5. A Review of Virginia Postrel's The Future and its Enemies:- November 2, 2005

6. Toward the Unity and Integration of Knowledge: The Study of Economic and Political Philosophy:- November 4, 2005

7. Austrian Economics and Objectivism:- November 21, 2005

 

Andre Zantonavitch

1. Propping Up North Korea:- September 21, 2005




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