In The Structure of Liberty, Randy Barnett takes on a complex and ambitious project. His main goal is to provide a systematic argument
Ayn Rand was an unusually creative philosopher. In every major branch of philosophy, from metaphysics to aesthetics, she had original...
My theme is that, on the German intellectual landscape, Kant is as close to Enlightenment thinking as it gets. From the perspective of most
It looks as though Dreamworks could not have come up with a better slogan for its final Shrek movie: After
You walk into a bar and see the same drunk who’s there every night lying on the floor in a pool of his reeking fluids. He raises his head...
This is not mere rhetoric. It describes a crack in the American community that since Barack Obama’s election as president has widened into..
It sure didn’t take long for Rand Paul’s political opponents to sharpen their daggers. Less than 24 hours after winning the Kentucky Senate
The Obama administration is launching a rabble-rousing assault on big banks. Thus we see on display in Washington another example of how...
The earthquake in Haiti that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and inflicted untold misery on the inhabitants of that country has
The first was the “Green Police” advertisement for Audi that was broadcast during this year’s Super Bowl. It starts with a clerk asking a...
Israel is involved in another public relations mess. But even a superficial look at the incident at sea off Gaza shows that the real mess..
A scramble by Democrats on Capitol Hill to prevent a particular vote on a particular bill highlights for us two of the most pernicious...
May 13, 2010 -- I do not often agree with Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson, especially when he pontificates about the nature of
I was walking back to the office one day, here in Washington, D.C., when a young woman accosted me on a street corner. “Got a minute for the
Ayn Rand portrayed her philosophy in action in her novels We the Living, Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged.
For most of man's existence on Earth, the universe has been anything but benevolent. Famines, floods, and earthquakes have destroyed whole
I would say that, over the last twenty-five years, the biggest triumph of the Enlightenment view is that people have grasped the concept...
A person of "principle" is commonly thought to be one who cleaves to his moral ideals and shuns "expediency" and compromise. Objectivism....
Like any story relying on the fantastic, the superhero film has a test: does the fantastic sharpen and enhance the theme and the conflicts
Many Americans—and even more Europeans—employ a pre-modern ideal when judging the market economy. According to this ideal, individuals enter
