by Robert Tracinski | Dec 4, 2020 | Announcement
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by Robert Tracinski | Dec 4, 2020 | Announcement
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by Robert Tracinski | Nov 30, 2020 | Commentary
The most interesting thing about the new COVID-19 vaccines is how they were developed. Take the Moderna vaccine, which was basically developed in two days. No, really.
by Robert Tracinski | Nov 23, 2020 | Commentary
Editor’s Note: I am trying to leave the 2020 election behind, honestly I am, but it doesn’t quite want to let go of us yet. Donald Trump has been burrowing down, Norma Desmond-style, into fantasies about worming his way into a second term by uncovering a...
by Robert Tracinski | Nov 17, 2020 | Commentary
My recent thoughts on the state of the Objectivist movement—and thanks for my readers’ responses so far—are a call for “Independent Objectivism,” an Objectivist movement that is less focused around one central person or institution and more dispersed...
by Robert Tracinski | Nov 15, 2020 | Feature Article
I wanted to offer a few thoughts on the latest Objectischism—you know, that thing we Objectivists do every couple of years when we decide that our movement isn’t small enough already, so we have to split it into even tinier fragments. This is the point at which...
by Robert Tracinski | Nov 12, 2020 | Commentary
Five Things You Need to Read Today 1. When the Tide Goes Out, You Find Out Who’s Been Swimming Naked After all the chaos of the election, I wanted to take an edition just to catch up on some news that slipped through the cracks over the past few months. The...
by Robert Tracinski | Nov 12, 2020 | Feature Article
I was a small-government Never Trumper. I regarded Donald Trump as unfit for office and wanted him out, but I didn’t want to sign on for the full Democratic party agenda. Which means that I’m part of a small sliver of the country who got precisely what we wanted from...
by Robert Tracinski | Nov 11, 2020 | Commentary
Below is the last thing I will write about the election for a while. It’s over, even if everyone isn’t yet ready to admit that it’s over, so it’s time to move on. And yet—Monday seems to have been the day when otherwise sensible people sent me,...
by Robert Tracinski | Nov 7, 2020 | Commentary
I ended my post-election commentary by speculating, “It’s almost as if the American people are capable of doing what NeverTrumpers asked them to do: sort through the evidence of Trump’s failure and unfitness and reject him for it, without endorsing...
