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Learning Liberty

She stood on a bank of snow with an outstretched hand and decades of hope. It had snowed for seven straight days and three-foot drifts lined

Jul 26, 2011
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Sarah Perry
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Start it Up!

Thirty years ago, Steve Mariotti decided to take a jog by the river. He was about a mile into his run, close to where his high-rise Wall....

Jun 27, 2011
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Sarah Perry
10 Mins
Secular Spirituality

The fall season ushers in Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and, this year, Ramadan as well. Winter brings Christmas and Hanukkah. Spring takes....

Mar 25, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
10 Mins
Book Review: Boys to Men

When I was a boy growing up in the suburbs of Baltimore, few songs stuck with me the way this one did. I think I was nine or ten, and upon..

Mar 24, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
2 Mins
Teaching Virtue in a Postmodern World

James Davison Hunter, a professor of sociology and religious studies at the University of Virginia and director of the Institute for

Oct 20, 2010
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10 Mins
Philosophy

As everyone grows up, they develop a set of values: ways they interpret and respond to the world. At the basis of their values lies what...

Sep 28, 2010
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2 Mins
Self Help: Egotists vs. Egoists

I would say that, over the last twenty-five years, the biggest triumph of the Enlightenment view is that people have grasped the concept...

Jun 18, 2010
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9 mins
Art of Living

Inspired by the vision of life in Ayn Rand’s novels, many people have adopted Objectivism as a way of life: a code of conduct and character

Jun 15, 2010
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2 Mins
What is Philosophy?

In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code of values; in order..

Jun 14, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
3 Mins
Are We Addicted to Addiction?

March 26, 2010—It used to be that someone who regularly drank or ate to excess was simply considered a glutton. A person who tried to get

Apr 20, 2010
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Bradley Doucet
5 Mins
Atlas Shrugged in Haight-Ashbury: A Memoir

Like a stock market that has finally found its bottom after a long, volatile decline, my spiritual assets were nearly depleted. I finally...

Apr 1, 2009
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Molly Sechrest
10 Mins
Is High Self-Esteem Bad for You?

For more than thirty years, promoting the development of higher self-esteem has been a major goal for clinical psychologists and educators..

Jul 21, 2003
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Robert Campbell
10 Mins
Speakers Bureau Interview: John Bechtel

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

Apr 1, 2000
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The Atlas Society
7 Mins
Self-Help: The Classics

In The Great Gatsby, in order to traduce the bourgeois tradition of boot-strapping, F. Scott Fitzgerald parodied the self-help program of

Oct 1, 1999
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To Awaken the Hero Within

Nathaniel Branden began writing and talking about self-esteem long before it became au courant to do so in educational, therapeutic, and....

Jun 2, 1994
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Kenneth Livingston
7 Mins

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