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The character Gail Wynand pursues a use-and-be-used career strategy. Wynand uses strong-arm tactics when necessary in building up his newspaper’s market; he manipulates his employees with money to break their integrity; he fires those (like Dominique) who refuse to bend; and he lets the lowest-common-denominator of public taste dictate the content of the newspaper he […]

Ayn Rand was a philosopher and an artist, and she carefully distinguished the status of works that are discoveries from those that are creations: “A scientific or philosophical discovery, which identifies a law of nature, a principle or a fact of reality not previously known, cannot be the exclusive property of the discoverer because (a)

Now back in Illinois, in studio I recorded a 15 one-minute answers to submitted questions: 1. Was Christianity at fault for the fall of the classical world? 2. Could you say that this country was founded on the work of slaves and it gave us an advantage over other nations?3. How does free will manifest

Algeria was the world’s largest wine exporter until the 1960s.[a] By a huge margin—more than the next six largest exporting countries (including France, Italy, and Spain)—combined. Then it collapsed. What happened? 1. Under French colonialism from the 1830s, the Algerian wine industry grew, though the regime was often brutal. 2. Then, from the 1950s and

Question:In 200 words, what is the argument of Stephen Hicks’s book Explaining Postmodernism? ChatGPT: Stephen Hicks’s book “Explaining Postmodernism” argues that postmodernism, a cultural and academic movement that emerged in the late 20th century, represents a radical break with the rationalist and humanist traditions of modernity. According to Hicks, postmodernism is characterized by a rejection