The American author Joe McGinniss died March 10. He was certainly not an Objectivist, nor a libertarian. But he was a superb writer, and I had a personal connection with him.
The August, 1985, issue of Harper’s Magazine published my article “Stalking the Criminal Mind.” A reflection on efforts to explain crime, the article discussed a number of prominent books, but foremost among them was McGinniss’s Fatal Vision, a “true crime” account of Jeffrey MacDonald, an army doctor convicted of murdering his wife and two young children.
As I wrote to McGinniss afterward, “Of all the nonfiction crime narratives I have read, including [Truman Capote’s] In Cold Blood, I thought yours was the most exhaustive and compelling.” We corresponded for a while, and he included some of my observations in the Afterward to 2nd edition of his work, particularly the connection I drew between his characterization of MacDonald and the work of criminal psychologist Stanton Samenow.
My article focused on the philosophical conflict between free will and determinism in trying to understand criminal actions. For those who are interested, we reprint the article, with permission from Harper’s Magazine. 
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The Character of John Galt
Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? has wrapped up filming and is now moving through post production. In this third installment of the Atlas Shrugged movie series, we will finally get a sustained look at the character of John Galt, in contrast to the mere glimpses we’ve had of him throughout the first and second parts. In Who Is John Galt? we will find him in conversations with “the men of the mind” in the gulch, pursuing his romance with Dagny Taggart, and fulfilling his mission to liberate the human spirit. Here are three movie items online right now to celebrate Part 3's revelation of John Galt—Ayn Rand’s most abstract, mysterious, and powerful character. Read now >
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GOP Helps North Carolina, Georgia Democrats Win
Leading candidates for the 2014 North Carolina and Georgia Republican nominations for Senate are throwing the election to Democrats.
Let’s begin in North Carolina where Senator Kay Hagan, a Democrat, is very vulnerable. Greg Brannon is the frontrunner for the GOP primary to challenge her. Speaking about Planned Parenthood, Brannon alleged that “They said we already know abortion is fine, why stop in the womb? Why not three months after? Why should we end the responsibility at that point? It could happen in America. Florida's trying to do it right now and so is Georgia.”
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