Zoltan Istvan, author of the"License provocative novel The Transhumanist Wager (I’ll review it soon), recently suggested in Wired that...
The death of entertainer Robin Williams has again brought to public discussion the serious matter of suicide.Robin Williams hope for those
“Genie, you’re free.” In Disney’s Aladdin, those are the words in which the Genie learns that after thousands of years of being forced to...
Salon.com hates Ayn Rand and Objectivism. The latest evidence is a gratuitous jab, tarring AWriter Sean McElweeyn Rand a conservative and..
The central plot device in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is the strike of the producers led by John Galt. And the essential purpose of the
1967: Ayn Rand is interviewed on WKCR, a Columbia University student-run radio station. She is asked about the reason for hostility and the "deep antagonism" that some critics of capitalism express toward it.
Ayn Rand answers questions from students about the difference between Objectivism and Nietzscheism.
Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, recently spoke at the “ Rebooting Congress, Causes and Campaigns 2014 ” conference in Silicon Valley...
What does it mean to be objective? David Kelley discusses the relation of the objective, the intrinsic, and the subjective. He discusses
Television newscasts over the past week have featured videos of corpses, including the bodies of children, piled in hospitals and morgues
On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first human beings to land and walk on the Moon. Armstrong is no longer with us
Atlas Summit 2014 -- The Objectivist ethics is based in a recognition that, for each organism, its life is its ultimate value. This is the
The US federal government is holding one of its periodic debates about highway funding. President Obama says that the federal highway trust
Pursuing a profit does not mean giving up your other values, not even if you do it by means of a corporation. That’s the most important meaning of today’s Supreme Court decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby.
In retaliation, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Serbia’s ally Russia declared war on Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary’s ally Germany
In the 1970s, I attended courses taught by Leonard Peikoff and Alan Blumenthal. Ayn Rand was often present and I got to know her a bit...
Establishment Republicans are in shock over the Virginia primary loss by GOP House majority leader Eric Cantor at the hands of Dave Brat
The FDA recently said it was illegal to age cheese on wooden boards; in the face of an outcry, it retreated...
The Atlas Summit will begin on Thursday, June 19, with the Objectivist Education program starting at 9:30 a.m. Main Atlas Summit registratio
GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says that Republicans “have often lost sight of the fact that our average voter is not John Galt.