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2008 Meetings
- January Planning Meeting
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Dr. Andrew Bernstein at Rice
University: "Religion vs. Morality"
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Bookshare
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Cultural Event--Leonardo da Vinci:
Man, Inventor, Genius
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Epistemology and Justice
- HOS 20th Anniversary Party
- Illegal Immigration
- The Founding Fathers and Democracy
- Applying Ayn Rand's Essays to Our
Lives
- How to Analyze and Appreciate
Paintings
- Christmas Party
2007 Meetings
- January Planning Meeting
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Reading & Analysis of Reginald Rose's Twelve
Angry Men
- Using Technology to
Promote HOS and Objectivism.
- Speaker
Event--Greg Salmieri to speak on "Ayn Rand's Conception of Valuing"
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Reading & Analysis of Ayn Rand's Essay "For The
New Intellectual"
- Art/Cultural Event: production of
Twelve Angry Men
- Playing Devil's Advocate
- Epistemology & Language
- Comparing Australia, New Zealand, and the
United States
- NASA's Monopoly on Manned Spaceflight
- The ExxonMobil Merger: A Tale of Two Mergers
- Christmas Party
2006 Meetings
- January Planning Meeting
- HOS marketing meeting/Video interviews of Ayn
Rand.
- Roman Law
-
Copper Pot Show-and-Tell
- Reading & Analysis of Ayn Rand's play Ideal
- "Sam Walton: Retail Genius"
- Architecture: Theory & Practice
- Ayn Rand Bookstore Book / Tape Review
- Reading & Analysis of Ayn Rand Answers:
The Best of Her Q & A
- Outside Speaker: Dr. Tara Smith, "Why
Originalism Won't Die"
- HMNS Field Trip: Benjamin Franklin
- Christmas Party
2005 Meetings
- January Planning Meeting
- Celebration of Ayn Rand's 100th birthday
- Group reading of Ayn Rand's play Think Twice
- Reading Ayn Rand's essays: "Objectivist Ethics" and "Collectivized Ethics"
- Book-share
- "The Importance of Integration in Education"
- Analysis of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan
- "Foundations of Western Music"
- "Burt Rutan and the New Space Entrepreneurs"
- Reading Ayn Rand's essays: "Property Status of Airwaves"
- Outside speaker: C. Bradley Thompson, "Foundations of the American Constitution"
- Christmas Party
2004 Meetings
- January Planning Meeting
- Outside speaker: John Lewis: "Failure of the Homeland Defense"
- Outside speaker: Amy Peikoff: "Copyright: Its Moral Justification and Proper Duration"
- Music-share
- Culture and Coinage: Ancient Greece to the Renaissance
- Analysis of Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac
- Presentation: Just War Theory
- Reading Ayn Rand's essays: "How does one lead a rational life in an irrational society?", and "The Argument from Intimidation"
- Group reading of Ayn Rand's play Night of January 16th
- Discussion of the upcoming Presidential election
- Christmas Party
2003 Meetings
- January Planning Meeting
- Movie-share
- Does effective war-fighting require sacrifice?
- Outside speaker: Robert Mayhew compares "We the Living - '36 and '39"
- The philosophical roots of Middle East terrorism
- Videotaped lecture by Peter Schwartz: "The New Primitivism"
- Analysis of Shakespeare's Othello
- Workshop: Thinking in Essentials
- Outside speaker: Robert Garmong: "Political Thought of John Locke and Ayn Rand"
- Christmas Party
2002 Meetings
- January: Psycho-epistemology of the Arab
world - audio tape; Collect
ideas for 2002 meetings
- Book-share
- Q&A with Dr. Harry Binswanger
- Outside Speaker - Darryl Wright:
"Students' Reaction to Ayn Rand"
- Presentation - Dr. Harry King:
"A Rational and Integrated
Approach to the Care of the Body"
- Discussion of Bernard Goldberg's
book "Bias," and bias in the
media
- "Classical Education vs. Public
School"
- Essay contest awards ceremony
- A personal glimpse of Ayn Rand
- Great Plays - "Monna Vanna"
- Movie-share
- Christmas Party
2001 Meetings
- January Planning Meeting
- Discussion of conflicts in everyday life and how to handle them rationally
- Reading of a heroic Western story, "Tanner"
- Dina Garmong lectures - "Reclaiming Egoism and Morality"
- Field trip to Shackleton exhibit at Museum of Science
- June meeting cancelled due to tropical storm Allison
- "Kant's Gimmick" - audio tape lecture by Adam Mossoff
- Reading of Chris Land's screenplay for Atlas Shrugged
- Essay contest award's ceremony
- Chris Land lecture - "What I learned writing the Atlas screenplay"
- Anti-terrorism letter writing
- Christmas Party
2000 Meetings
- Book-share
- "Behind the scenes at Mission Control" (Flight Director: Paul Hill)
- Read Ibsen's "Enemy of the People" (before meeting) discussed in Leonard Peikoff's "Eight Great Plays", then listen to lecture and discuss
- Andrew Bernstein: "Philosophical and Literary Integration in Atlas Shrugged
- Dina Garmong: "Reclaiming Egoism" - preview of her Second Renaissance conference presentations
- Field trip to the new Beck Building at the Museum of Fine Arts
- 4th of July Party - games, contests and food
- The Achievements of Rome (the Emperor Hadrian's architecture and Roman Law)
- Movie: "Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life" at Rice University
- Movie-share
- "The Human Form in Greek Sculpture" (taped lecture by Diane Durante) + visuals
- Christmas party
1999 Meetings
- "Objectivism Through Induction" - 11 meetings spent, one lecture per month
- Lyceum: "The World Financial Crisis" and "The Corruption of the American Bar Association"
- Special lecture by Dina Garmong: "Virtue and its Consequences"
1998 Meetings
- Movie: "We the Living"
- Book-share
- Lyceum: "Productiveness: The Central Purpose of a Good Life"
- The objective value of sports
- Lecture 1 of Dr. Peikoff's "Eight Great Plays"
- An analysis of Raphael's "Philosophy"
- Movie-share
- Francis Bacon: The Father of the Scientific Method
- Houston Art Galleries - the Decent Few
1997 Meetings
- Donahue and Tom Snyder interviews with Ayn Rand
- Promotion of Leonard Peikoff's radio show in Houston
- Brains of Steel II - game designed to hone skill of identifying context
- Lyceum: Ayn Rand's early life
- Chewing the virtue of honesty
- Manners as philosophy - the philosophical aspects of etiquette
- Lyceum: Objective Investing
- The architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Previous Years
- Defense of rights in land use
- Philosophical detection (analyzing quotes)
- Toward an architectural esthetic
- Heroes
- In appreciation of Ayn Rand - 90th birthday celebration
- Literary analysis of Shakespeare's Macbeth
- Thinking in essentials
- Ethical crises in science
- Analyzing the news
- Building intellectual skills via the game "How Come?"
- Ethics of reproductive technologies
- Crime and Punishment in Texas
- Workshop on arguing for ideas
- Q&A on Objectivism - for newcomers and old-timers
- How teachers are taught to teach writing
- Pamphleteering: "Health Care is Not a Right" sent to doctors
- Workshops on writing letters and Op-Ed's
- Various audios and videos, including: "Nature's Cancers," "Philosophy and the Real World Out There," "Debate - Capitalism or Socialism: Which is the Moral Social System?"
- The Montessori Method
- The Right of Habeas Corpus
- The limitation on perpetuity in property rights
- The sculpture of Brookgreen Gardens (S. Carolina)
- The 1996 presidential candidates
- The history of art trends in the 20th century
- The real meaning of vegetarianism
- Objective care of the body
- An objective theory of humor
- Workshop on identifying context
- Space day: A tour of the Johnson Space Center at NASA
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