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Values and Morals

Where Are the Honorable Prosecutors?

The Business Rights Center has noted a fair few bad deeds by prosecutors. Timothy Crudo lied to the jury about Greg Reyes. Prosecutors have

Nov 5, 2013
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3 Mins
Snowden, Heroism, and Self-Interest

Snowden released secrets about the U.S. government’s domestic spying to the public. He paid a high price for this deed, going from a

Jun 12, 2013
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Alexander R. Cohen
2 Mins
Values in Atlas Shrugged (Part 1: Career)

Atlas Summit 2012 -- The heroes of Atlas Shrugged are rational, productive businesspeople. In Ayn Rand's thought, a career represents the

Jan 14, 2013
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William Thomas
2 Mins
The Moral Tradition: The Concept of Loyalty

Notice, first, that the objects of loyalty are human and institutional. One is loyal to a friend, an organization, a spouse, a country...

Jan 13, 2013
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4 Mins
Objectivism, Public Policy, and Entrepreneurship

In this talk, delivered at the 2012 Atlas Summit, Professor Stephen Hicks presents an Objectivist perspective on entrepreneurship and

Dec 19, 2012
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Stephen Hicks Ph.D.
2 Mins
The Problem With "Selfishness"

Atlas Summit 2012 -- In her book, The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand exhorted readers to put the word "selfishness" to its true and proper

Dec 13, 2012
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Marsha Enright
1 Min
Deep Savages

March 18, 2005 -- Last week Mukhtar Mai , a Pakistani woman, expressed concern that the four men who gang raped her nearly three years ago

Sep 12, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
A Self-Help Guide to Living in a Free Society

Too many Americans are losing the ability to take care of themselves and are instead looking to the government to run their lives for them..

Jul 20, 2012
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Gen LaGreca
4 Mins
A Humanist Ethics of Pride

BOOK REVIEW : Richard Taylor, Restoring Pride: The Lost Virtue of Our Age (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Press, 1996)

Jan 25, 2012
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5 Mins
Losing While Winning

Newsflash: it’s a competitive world out there! Some of us are winning and some are losing. It’s the game of live-and-let-live together.

Nov 11, 2011
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10 Mins
Angry Customers Should Reevaluate Netflix's Changes

I hear customers are angry at Netflix over its recent changes. It’s worth taking a moment to ask: Why would anyone be angry...

Sep 22, 2011
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4 Mins
Pride: Living as a Self-Made Soul

In this webinar, recorded on June 29, 2011, William R Thomas discusses pride as "the first and last of the virtues." Pride connects

Aug 29, 2011
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2 Mins
The Social Power of Integrity

There are people whom you have known or met who have a powerful quality to them; they know themselves, they seem comfortable in their own...

Jul 26, 2011
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Joel Wade
10 Mins
Al Gore's War on Children

I have long argued that the morally twisted beliefs of many environmentalists imply that humans are pollution and that the Earth would be...

Jun 22, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Savage and Inhuman

March 18, 2005 -- Last week Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman, expressed concern that the four men who gang raped her nearly three years ago

Jun 9, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Why Does the War on (Some) Drugs Continue?

March 26, 2009 -- The Drug War has been in the news again this week. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton headed off to Mexico on Wednesday...

Jun 1, 2011
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Bradley Doucet
5 Mins
Why Do We Tolerate Bullying?

April 10, 2009-- Two years ago, at the age of 17, Eric Mohat committed suicide. On March 27 of this year, his parents filed a federal lawsui

May 31, 2011
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Bradley Doucet
6 Mins
The Enlightenment Spirit of Edward Jenner

The scourge of smallpox is ancient—Pharaoh Ramses V is thought to have died of the illness in 1157 B.C. Yet smallpox did not become a major

May 30, 2011
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6 Mins
The Importance of Blacklisting

August 30, 2002 -- Objectivism distinguishes between errors of ignorance and errors of morality, and libertarianism distinguishes between

May 30, 2011
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8 Mins
Justice: Treating Others Objectively

Judge others, and prepare to be judged. We live in society, but how can we deal with others in a way that promotes rational, productive

May 16, 2011
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2 Mins

We promote open Objectivism: the philosophy of reason, achievement, individualism, and freedom.