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Black humor aside, there is no longer an easy or rational way to conclude the war in the foreseeable future. What began in 1968 as a nonviolent campaign for civil rights by Ulster's half-million Catholics?one-third of the North's population?has inexorably grown into an all...
Ulster's troubles seem weirdly outdated in a modern world that, however mistakenly, likes to think of itself as rational. To understand the feuds of faith and blood, it is necessary to go back to the Middle Ages.
In Atlas Shrugged, Rand responds that if fulfillment is best gained through altruist or socialist systems, then rational men in free, non-coercive societies will choose these systems. If they are not the most fulfilling, men will choose others. The absolutely most important right to preserve, she says, is the...
Some companies that still make holiday payouts, like Los Angeles' Security Pacific National Bank, are turning to employee profit-sharing plans as a more rational way to spread good fortune around. But 1971 was not a particularly cheery profit year, and workers whose bonuses are tied to corporate earnings...
If a signal from another planet is ever received and deciphered, it would surely have an immeasurable impact on man. In one brief burst of information it would expand his horizons into infinity. In the process it would force him to re-examine some ancient questions. With his long heritage...