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...Conard, a Tea Partyer in Scottsdale, Ariz., wearing wire-rim glasses and toting a sign that says "Stop Socialism Now - No Government Health Bill." Conard is fed up with political parties and has no interest in starting another one. "Don't call me a Republican. I am an independent thinker against Big Government," he said. "The Tea Party movement isn't a party at all. I'd like politics without parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Tea Party Movement Matters | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...equal opportunity?" he asks. "Or do we want to replace that with a more Western European notion of a welfare state, where the role of government is to equalize the results of people's lives?" Ryan, not surprisingly, is an Ayn Rand acolyte - he once cited her as the thinker who spurred his pursuit of public service. And while he says he does not subscribe to Rand's objectivist philosophy, he shares her conviction that the American promise is predicated on capitalism. "I do believe government has a role in making sure we have a safety net to help people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Ryan: The GOP's Answer to the 'Party of No' | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...being well educated and a good critical thinker as extremely important to being a good officer,” Barron said...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Four Harvard Students Receive Gates Scholarships | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...your initials. So it has been this week in Paris, where France's best-known contemporary philosopher, Bernard-Henri Lévy - or BHL, as he is universally known - has been trying to explain how he was hoodwinked by a fictional character he had taken for a great thinker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A French Philosopher Duped by a Fictional Character | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

What should Harvard administrators learn from this long-dead thinker? College policies should allow students to be students: to study without rigid barriers to concentration choice. Even for those who happen to like art history and engineering sciences, the College’s attitude should not begin with the assumption that the unusual is aberrant...

Author: By Gregory A. Dibella | Title: Veritas: Now Subject to Committee Approval! | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

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