The Intellectual Activist

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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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
TIA Daily Sample Articles \| September 4, 2009 TIA Daily provides you with daily news and analysis from a pro-reason, pro-individualist perspective. Following are some sample articles from the past issues. Please enter your e-mail address below for a no obligation, no strings attached, 30-day trial of TIA Daily and see for yourself. � Health Care Guide � Tea Party Resources � Brother, You Ain't My Keeper � Interview with Ian Plimer � Environmentalism's Big Lie: Renewable Energy � Publish or Perish: The Lessons of the Cartoon Jihad � The Hinge of the World � America's Real "Assimilation" Dilemma � An Unnatural Disaster � Anything Less Is Suicide � The Empire of the Pursuit of Happiness � A Real Invasion � What Went Right? (->)
The Left Demands a "Do-Over" \| October 28, 2005 Web specials: � An Unnatural Disaster � Anything Less Is Suicide � The Empire of the Pursuit of Happiness � America's War Song, � A Real Invasion, � The Hinge of the World � Liberty and Union � What Have We Lost? � Martha Stewart � "See How America Grew" � Human Achievements Blog � TIA Daily Sample Issue The Left Demands a "Do-Over" The indictment of Lewis Libby is an attempt by the left to "do-over" the decision to invade Iraq. Top News Stories 1. The Left Demands a "Do-Over" of the Decision to Invade Iraq 2. "They Have Us surrounded, the Poor Bastards" 3. Assad Surrenders Power in an Attempt to Appease Justice 4. The Washington Post Envies Big Oil's "Loot" 5. Little Looters Can Be as Costly as Big Ones Departments 6. Human Achievements: The Chicken and the Egg Feature Article 7. The War Department: Iraq War Casualties, Part 3, by Jack Wakeland What Have Our Soldiers Won?(->)

TIA Daily Samples
"We're Comin' to Get You": NY-23 and VA-5 \| January 26, 2010 I recently landed in the middle of an important skirmish: the wide-open Republican primary battle in Virginia's fifth congressional district. The story is a microcosm of the tension and mutual suspicion between the tea party movement and the Republican establishment.(->)
Letter to a Sincere Leftist \| December 20, 2009 Let us join together, the pro-free-market right and the far left marching arm in arm and shoulder to shoulder to beat this bill. (->)

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.
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" (->)
March 2009 \| February 10, 2009 � The Anti-Industrial Coup Environmentalism's Cultural Revolution � The Putin Doctrine � Guilty Until Proven Innocent � Taxing Us for Breathing � What Went Right? Part 3: Pajama Epistemology(->)

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