Michael Prescott's Blog

This hosting service, Blogger, has been so unreliable and frustrating that I have switched to a different service, TypePad. I'm hoping i...

I recently read an announcement of a possible film on the life of the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere. Why is this of interest? Well, de...

My previous post discussed rational-emotive psychological theorist Albert Ellis and his strange reluctance to pass judgment on anybody - eve...

Recently I tracked down the long out-of-print book Is Objectivism a Religion? by Albert Ellis. Published in 1968, the book criticizes Ayn R...

I have a certain fascination with the much-debated Shakespeare authorship question, as demonstrated by the three essays I've posted on t...

Years ago I was involved in Objectivism, the movement that grew out of the writings of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand. In an essay called ...

I just finished reading The History of Torture , by Daniel P. Mannix, and I have to say the book's relentless chronicling of man's i...

Last night I saw a news report on the federal government's latest budget, which is said to be 2.6 trillion dollars. This got me wonderin...