Individual Rights: The Objectivist View
The Declaration of Independence states that the purpose of government is to secure the rights of man. Most Americans know and assent to the
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The Declaration of Independence states that the purpose of government is to secure the rights of man. Most Americans know and assent to the
The capitalist system came of age in the century from 1750 to 1850 as a result of three revolutions. The first was a political revolution...
One of my favorite photographs of Ayn Rand dates back to 1961. In it, she is the only woman at the President's Advanced Round Table of the
People do generous things. They give directions to strangers, contribute to charities, volunteer in hospitals, send food and supplies to ear
For a long time critics of modern and postmodern art have relied on the "Isn't that disgusting" strategy. By that I mean the strategy of ...
A Gallup poll taken in May of 2003 found that only 3 percent of Americans believe animals do not need much legal protection. Fully 71 percen
Owen Flanagan (pictured here) is a prominent philosopher of mind who exemplifies the trend in his profession of paying closer attention to..
In Atlas Shrugged, Dr. Robert Stadler finds it "outrageous" that a genius such as John Galt would have "performed a major revolution in...
As the United States pursues its war in Afghanistan, the national and the international press have focused attention on the civilian
The terrorist attacks of September 11 showed us good and evil, heroism and villainy. There were people who stared death in the face and, set
John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, which was published thirty years ago, has been the most influential work of political philosophy in the
Some years ago, I wrote that we had reached a moment in history when self-esteem, which had always been a supremely important psychological
John Bechtel gave his first public talks for the Jehovah's Witnesses at the age of five. By age nine, he was addressing audiences numbering
In Atlas Shrugged , when Dagny Taggart leaves her position at the railroad and "retires" to her cabin in the Berkshires, she thinks about
Postmodernism became the leading intellectual movement in the late twentieth century. It has replaced modernism, the philosophy of the
Unlike other species, man has the ability to re-organize his perceptual world in such a way as to discover new relationships. The essence
Battles for the hearts and minds of libertarians, which date from at least the 1971 birth of the Libertarian Party, are waged principally
libertarianism: a primer by David Boaz - an objectivist review"There are sundry 'libertarians'," Ayn Rand wrote during the early 1970s...
I have to take out the trash...change the oil in my car...pay my Visa bill...I have to give a presentation at the sales meeting...