She has won several awards for her teaching. In this lecture, Susan McCloskey will consider The Art of Fiction on its own terms and compare Rand's account of her craft to the accounts of other writers, past and present. She will explore Rand's preoccupation with plot, her strictures about style, her view of the subconscious, and the perils and profit of following her advice. Susan McCloskey received her Ph.D. from Princeton University and was a professor of English literature at Vassar College. Several current trends, if they continue, will drastically curtail governments' ability to tax.
Strong encryption has the potential to make income and sales transactions untaxable by governments.
Increased competition among governments for talented citizens and productive companies will limit the degree to which governments try to extract a high percentage of GDP as taxes-and will restrain them from employing totalitarian methods to counteract the effects of strong encryption. Robert Poole will argue that a likely outcome of this situation will be a significant decentralization of government, with a new form of federalism arising from the bottom up. Mr. Poole is the founder of the Reason Foundation and publisher of Reason magazine. Those of us who venture out into the world are constantly confronted by other peoples' children who are spoiled, unruly and horribly disruptive. Charles Tomlinson is a consulting forester, author, and father of three children that he likes to be around.