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The Importance of Blacklisting by Roger Donway
Objectivism distinguishes between errors of ignorance and errors of morality, and between immorality and crime. As a result, Objectivists exercise moral toleration toward those whose ideas are innocently mistaken and political toleration toward those who immoralities are non-coercive. But the virtue of showing moral and political toleration does not mean Objectivists can employ nothing but arguments to weaken the forces that are destroying Enlightenment culture.

Vandal Chic by Heather Mac Donald
Graffiti is metastasizing again throughout New York City. But if the New York Times's culture critics are to be believed, New Yorkers should be thrilled. Every few months, the paper of record disgorges itself of an article breathlessly celebrating graffiti vandalism as a vital urban art form.

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The Law in Wartime by Robert A. Levy
Objectivists agree that national security is a legitimate function of government, and even hardcore champions of the Bill of Rights concede that it would be foolish to treat civil liberties as inviolable when the lives of innocent thousands are at stake. But where should we draw the line when dealing with such issues as military tribunals, ethnic profiling, and national ID cards?

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters—and Multiculturalists by Walter Donway
In his new collection of essays, Discontents: Postmodern and Postcommunist, sociologist Paul Hollander probes the connections between two apparently disparate questions: Why has the collapse of the Soviet Union (unlike the collapse of Nazi Germany) not produced academic studies of the relationship between totalitarian theory and practice? And: Why do Western intellectuals find their own societies intolerably unjust, given the totalitarian states that have flourish around the world in this century?

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