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The Galleon Case Has It All

The Business Rights Watch covers a number of different issues: Overcriminalzation is one, obviously, the process of making illegal that whic

Sep 30, 2010
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3 Mins
Spiritual Values

Objectivists mean by "spiritual values" those values that fulfill the needs of human consciousness. The word "spirit" indeed refers

Sep 30, 2010
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2 Mins
Property Rights and Native Americans

Every initial property rights claim involves seizure of property, in a sense. As no property rights exist before property rights are founded

Sep 29, 2010
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William Thomas
3 Mins
Reparations for Slavery and Social Discrimination

Objectivism is totally opposed to racism. It is an individualist philosophy, and it holds that all people, first and foremost, should be....

Sep 29, 2010
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3 Mins
Reparations for Native Americans and Descendants of Slaves

Morally there is a kind of symmetry between the two types of reparations cases: In general, there is no justice in blaming a group for the

Sep 29, 2010
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3 Mins
Rand and Anna Karenina

Ayn Rand indeed regarded Anna Karenina as her least favorite novel. She presented her negative analysis of Anna Karenina in the article...

Sep 29, 2010
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Michelle Fram-Cohen
2 Mins
Progressivism and Objectivism

If only Progressivism could be a genus of Objectivism! But, alas, no.The Progressive movement was originally an intellectual and political

Sep 29, 2010
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William Thomas
4 Mins
What Objectivists Can Learn from Young Jim Hill

November 1999 -- Objectivists too often reduce the life and achievement of James J. Hill to a single debating point: He built a

Sep 28, 2010
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8 Mins
Needy Children

"The needy" come in two classes: those who are unable to care for themselves, and those who are able. Objectivism holds that it is not...

Sep 28, 2010
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William Thomas
2 Mins
Parapsychology

Objectivism does not recognize "parapsychological phenomena." As far as I know, there is no reliable evidence for any of them. Some forms...

Sep 28, 2010
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William Thomas
2 mins
Anti-Capitalist Dreams

Larry Ribstein has a review of the anti-capitalist film Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. And here is his article on the original Wall

Sep 25, 2010
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3 Mins
Cato and the Enlightenment Mind

One of the strangest stories in English literature is the rise and fall of Joseph Addison’s Cato, which was first performed in London in....

Sep 19, 2010
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Steve Miller
10 Mins
The Need for a New Individualism

America has been the land of the individual, and most Americans have thought of themselves as individualists. We still speak favorably of...

Sep 15, 2010
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Eddie Hudgins
10 Mins
Robert Nozick and the Good Fight

Whoever makes something, having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process…is entitled to it. The situation is no

Sep 9, 2010
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David Kelley, Ph.D.
4 Mins
Film Review: There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Martin Stringer, Kevin J. O’Connor, Jacob Stringer, Matthew Braden Stringer, Ciar

Sep 8, 2010
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Bob L. Jones
5 Mins
How Individualist is Human Nature?

You’re right to point out the contrast I make between capitalism and morality.” So said New York Times columnist John Tierney in response...

Sep 8, 2010
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8 Mins
Interview with Larry Elder

A lot of my listeners will often call up and say, “I preferred you when you were a Libertarian.” I always tell them I never was a....

Sep 8, 2010
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Bob L. Jones
10 Mins
The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism

Individualism seemed to have few accomplishments and fewer adherents, back when I first encountered it, some forty-five years ago...

Sep 8, 2010
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8 Mins
Film Review: Americanizing Shelley

May 2008 -- I’m not supposed to like Americanizing Shelley, at least not according to the unwritten code of my profession. It doesn’t affect

Sep 8, 2010
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Bob L. Jones
4 Mins
Individualism Meets Pulp Fiction

Winter 2005 -- I don’t watch TV—we’ve lived more than fifteen years without cable—and I’m not a big fan of film. My personal escape is

Sep 8, 2010
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Lou Villadsen
8 Mins

Wir fördern den offenen Objektivismus: die Philosophie der Vernunft, der Leistung, des Individualismus und der Freiheit.