D. Moskovitz

Question: Do animals have rights? What is the Objectivist position on animal cruelty? What is the Objectivist position on vegetarianism?

Question: Why is Objectivism atheistic rather than agnostic?

Answer: Objectivism holds that in order to obtain knowledge, man must use an objective process of thought. The essence of objective thought is, first, integration of perceptual data in accordance with logic and, second, a commitment to acknowledging all of the facts of reality, and only the facts. In other words, the only thoughts to consider when forming knowledge ofreality are those logically derived from reality.

July/August 2001 -- Students at Harvard and activists throughout the country have been fighting lately for a so-called "living wage" of about $10 an hour for blue-collar workers in their communities. But if these protesters want to make the world a better place, why do they stop there? What about the quarter of the world's population that lives on less than a dollar a day, whose members cannot afford the televisions and telephones purchased by so many Americans making less than this "living wage"? And why only $10 an hour?

BOOK REVIEW: Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food, Taming Our Primal Instincts. By Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan. (New York: Perseus Book Group, 2000. 224 pp. $24.00; $13.00, paper.)

Question: Is it moral to be homosexual? and what is Objectivism's view of homosexuality?

Question: What is the Objectivist view on democracy?