Navigator, September/October, 2002

Moral Wisdom in Manhattan by Shawn E. Klein
After Ayn Rand laid out a rational code of ethics, her followers worked at justifying and developing its values and virtues. The next step is to learn how best to apply morality to our lives. That is the field of moral wisdom, and it is the professional concern of Randy Cohen.

From the Silk Trade Route to the World Trade Center by Neera K. Badhwar
Two millennia before the World Trade Center soared over the New York skyline, another creation of commerce, the Silk Road, served the same purpose of peace and prosperity and faced the same threat from thugs.

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Free Speech and Postmodernism by Stephen Hicks
The argument that gave America free speech has a corollary: When we set up specialized social institutions to advance our knowledge, we should take special pains to protect the freedom of their creative minds. Why, then, do the greatest current threats to free speech come precisely from within our colleges and universities?

The Parasites' Paradise by Howard Dickman
In Heaven on Earth, Joshua Muravchik gives us a history of the socialist movement since the late eighteenth century, told primarily through profiles of selected theorists, agitators, and leaders, each of whom exemplifies a critical stage or form in its evolution. A less-appealing crowd of bloodsuckers, congenital liars, airheads, and killers is not easy to imagine.

How the Mind's Bureaucracy Works by Walter Donway
"You effortlessly delegate most of your thinking and decision making to the masses of cognitive workers busily at work in your mind's basement,' writes David G. Myers in his new book, Intuition. "Only the really important mental tasks reach the executive desk, where your mind works." But that process of bureaucratization has drawbacks as well as advantages.

Logbook: Summer Seminar 2002: Enlightenment Philosophers in the City of Angels

Other Logbook items:
2003 Advanced Seminar Call for Papers
August Advocacy Training in Albany
Soundings

Suggested Readings on The Campus Culture Wars