Reading Time: 6 minutes The 2006 documentary Manufactured Landscapes opens with an eight-minute tracking shot of a Chinese factory floor, seemingly endless rows of machinery in a city-sized complex of 17,000 employees. Revisited in Factory City (2012), this industrial zone played into the idea that Asian cultures were more willing than the West to trade humanity for advancement. Yet […]
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Beautiful ideas, beautiful buildings, terrible evils
Reading Time: 5 minutes Religion exemplifies the dichotomy of the human spirit: the same churches that gave birth to uplifting philosophies and great works of art are also guilty of horrendous crimes against humanity.
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The Fountainhead: Caput Mundi
Reading Time: 5 minutes The history and evolution of cities, and what it means that humanity is now an urban species.
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The Fountainhead: Undertaking Preposterous
Reading Time: 4 minutes Why you shouldn’t build a city in a desert.
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The Fountainhead: Castle Doctrine
Reading Time: 5 minutes How bad zoning perpetuates segregation and the affordability crisis.
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The Fountainhead: Vox Populi
Reading Time: 6 minutes If pleasing the masses is wrong, what’s an Objectivist journalist supposed to do?
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The Fountainhead: The Ayn Rand Theory of Everything
Reading Time: 5 minutes Howard Roark’s real-life inspiration disproves the idea that aesthetics and philosophy always match.
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The Fountainhead: Historic Preservation
Reading Time: 6 minutes The value of protecting the past.
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Real Estate in the Age of Christianity’s Decline (LSP #70)
Reading Time: 7 minutes One of the most visible signs of Christianity’s decline is its rash of abandoned churches. And they’re proving to be a problem! Today, Lord Snow Presides over fast-emptying churches.
