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The Intellectual Activist - An Objectivist Review

Art & Fiction
THE MOST OF P.G. WODEHOUSE by P.G. Wodehouse \| June 2, 2001 "If art is man's spiritual nourishment, then the luminous comic fiction of P.G. Wodehouse is spiritual champagne." (->)
THE CODE OF THE WOOSTERS by P.G. Wodehouse \| June 1, 2001 More "spiritual champagne" from P.G. Wodehouse.(->)

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Search the Website \| September 1, 2005 You can browse the articles by category using the pulldown menu to the top-right ....(->)

Education & Parenting
THE LANGUAGE POLICE by Diane Ravitch \| August 1, 2003 "A fascinating and comprehensive account of how the educational value of school books is being sacrificed for the sake of an ideological agenda."(->)
ANOTHER PLANET by Elinor Burkett \| June 1, 2002 "The underlying message of Burkett's book is that American education is filled with dangerous contradictions...."(->)

History & Science
JOHN ADAMS AND THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY by C. Bradley Thompson \| November 1, 2003 "Thompson provides the best and most comprehensive study of Adams's thought available today."(->)
DARWIN by Michael White and John Gribbin \| October 1, 2003 "Paints a portrait of Darwin in which his prodigious intellect and virtues of character are amply evident."(->)

Images
RWT at 9/12 Tea Party \| September 13, 2009 (->)
Chains You Can Believe In (18x24 portrait) \| September 5, 2009 Chains You Can Believe In (18x24 portrait)(->)

Miscellaneous
Volume 20, Number 2 Electronic Edition \| October 28, 2008 TIA Volume 20, Number 2 Electronic Edition(->)
Another New Print Issue \| October 16, 2008 The print issues of TIA Daily are back onto something like a monthly schedule, and another one should be going into the mail about now. See the description below of articles in the latest issue, and scroll down to the bottom for a preview of the contents of the next issue after that. The cover of this issue isn't up on our Website yet, so consider this a kind of sneak peak.�RWT (->)

Movies & Music
QUEEN CHRISTINA \| January 3, 2004 "Queen Christina is a literate, intelligent film that explores the conflict of duty vs. happiness with poignancy, style, and surprising explicitness." (->)
YES, MINISTER \| January 2, 2004 "Those looking for political satire that is funny, biting, philosophical, and surprisingly fresh�should not miss the exploits of Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby."(->)

Philosophy & Ayn Rand
BIOETHICS BIBLIOGRAPHY by Alex Epstein \| July 1, 2003 Five books that reveal the current state of the field of "bioethics."(->)
LOVING LIFE by Craig Biddle \| July 1, 2002 "The author performs effectively the difficult task of taking abstract moral principles and concretizing them for intelligent individuls who have little or no prior knowledge of philosophy."(->)

Politics & Economics
JOHN ADAMS AND THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY by C. Bradley Thompson \| November 1, 2003 "Thompson provides the best and most comprehensive study of Adams's thought available today."(->)
THE BLACK BOOK OF COMMUNISM by Stephane Courtois, et al. \| September 1, 2003 "A dispassionate and encyclopedic accounting of Communism's heinous crimes against mankind."(->)

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The Tracinski Collection

Michelangelo | May 30, 2006
bronze, 1994, 22-� inches tall, $11,500

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"This is a portrait of the genius artist Michelangelo as a relatively young man, captured in the act of contemplating his own work. This sculpture depicts the very act of a man valuing himself�his own talents and his own creation."

�Sherri Tracinski, The Intellectual Activist, Vol. 19, Nos. 5 & 6(->)

Eve | May 3, 2006
bronze, 1987, 13-� inches long, $3,200

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"In Eve's relaxed, open nudity and the casual sensuousness with which she nibbles on her apple, we see a guiltless love of herself; in her focused concentration on her book, we see her fearless hunger for knowledge; and in her sumptuous and curvaceous pose, we see a confidence that she is perfectly at home in this world, a world that exists for her enjoyment, for her pleasure, for her happiness."�Sherri Tracinski, The Intellectual Activist, Volume 19, Nos. 7 & 8(->)

TIA Daily

Un-Constitutional | August 26, 2010

Perriello's method is intended to make him look like a reasonable "moderate." But there is a reason he votes with the Democratic leadership on all of the really important pieces of legislation, and that is because he accepts the Democrats' radicalism on one central issue: their view of the unlimited power of government and their contempt for constitutional restraints.

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TIA Daily Samples
Un-Constitutional \| August 26, 2010 Perriello's method is intended to make him look like a reasonable "moderate." But there is a reason he votes with the Democratic leadership on all of the really important pieces of legislation, and that is because he accepts the Democrats' radicalism on one central issue: their view of the unlimited power of government and their contempt for constitutional restraints. (->)
Ground Zero Remains a Zero \| August 20, 2010 Whether or not a mosque is built near the World Trade Center building is totally irrelevant. It is what has not been done with the site that matters. (->)

Weekly Weblinks
A Day of Western Surrender \| April 15, 2004 The US negotiates with pro-theocracy militias in Iraq, Britain calls for "help" from Iran, and Israeli plans to pull out of Gaza, making this a day of self-inflicted losses in the War on Terrorism. Top News Stories � Iraqi Denounces US Appeasement of Islamists � Send a Theocrat to Stop a Theocrat? � The Contemptible 9/11 Commission � Taxes Aren't for Little People � Leftist Talk Radio Stumbles at Start � Bush Policies Aid the Enemy Feature Article � Israel's New Lebanon Surrender(->)
Iraq Bombings Aim at Voting Plan \| February 12, 2004 New al-Qaeda bombings are intended to intimidate the UN from running Iraqi elections. Why? Because the terrorists know the UN has a long record of cowardice in Iraq. In contrast, this report highlights the courage and resolve of Iraqi policemen.(->)

Robert Tracinski Column Robert Tracinski Column.
3/11 and 11/2: Vote to Reject a Truce with Terror \| November 2, 2004 Osama bin Laden has clarified this election in a way the candidates could not. He has made it clear that this election is about whether we will vote for a truce with terrorism--or whether we will vote to endure long enough to win the war.(->)
The Washington Conundrum: Why We Can't Afford a Leader Who Will Say Anything to Get Elected \| October 18, 2004 Kerry fails the test that I call "The Washington Conundrum." The Washington Conundrum is named, not after Washington, DC, but after George Washington. It is my term for the basic dilemma of political science: the only person who can be trusted to wield the power of the chief executive is a person who doesn't want that power. The only person qualified to be president of the United States is a man like George Washington, a man with no lust for power, who serves in office reluctantly and gives up power willingly.(->)

In This Month's Print Issue What's in this month's print issue of The Intellectual Activist.
May 2010 \| June 15, 2010 � From the Cave to the Moon � What Went Right? Part 5 The Summit and the Foundation � Transforming a Concept (->)
April 2009 \| August 27, 2009 � Counter-Revolution The Return of the Old Left � Tracinski's Law of Bailouts A Brief History of the Stimulus Depression � What Went Right? Part 4: The Metaphysics of "Normal Life" (->)

Editorial Cartoons Editorial cartoons by Allen Forkum and John Cox.
Extreme Prejudice \| February 12, 2004 (->)
News Fallout \| November 18, 2003 (->)