Why have Objectivists written so little about manners? I am inclined to believe it is because they have accepted the common view of manners
In the nineteenth century, Horace Mann began "the reading wars" when he raged against instruction in phonics, calling the letters of the alp
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
CEI was established in March 1984. My background had been at the Council for a Competitive Economy, a group that was created as a
Editor's note: The author of this essay, Robert James Bidinotto, is also the author of numerous articles and several books, including...
The story is that you came to Objectivism later in life than most people do and that you came to it more through a process of thought than..
With only a little imagination, Atlas Shrugged may be read as a tale about ingratitude. Many passages make the point, but the most instruct
In The Great Gatsby, in order to traduce the bourgeois tradition of boot-strapping, F. Scott Fitzgerald parodied the self-help program of
In her speech "The Objectivist Ethics," Ayn Rand described the virtue of pride as "moral ambitiousness," because it is predicated on the asp
First, it is important to appreciate that Locke was simultaneously a dedicated political activist and a profound thinker. His body of
Ayn Rand contrasted her morality of rational self-interest not just with altruism but with that irrational egoism which she acknowledged to
That is an interesting story. Originally, I planned to write a Ph.D. dissertation confined to interpreting Locke's moral and political
Christianity has long appreciated its followers' need for tales of model people and behavior. Its fundamental message is conveyed as the
When Ayn Rand called capitalism "the unknown ideal," she might have meant one of two things: Capitalism is an ideal social system that we have never known; or, capitalism is a social system that we have never known to be an ideal.
It's the issue that won't go away. The tragedy at Columbine High School, in Littleton, Colorado, was only one in a series of violent episode
On March 8, 1999, Joe DiMaggio died in his 85th year, a baseball legend, but also an American hero who represented the virtues and ideals of
Currently, Stephen R.C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University and the executive director of the Center for Ethics
In order to answer that question, I have to share an experience. In the summer of 1991, I was on a three-week tour of Japan, and I finished
While the selection criteria described in this article apply to children's books in general, the examples cited are drawn from picture books
In Atlas Shrugged , when Dagny Taggart leaves her position at the railroad and "retires" to her cabin in the Berkshires, she thinks about
Why have Objectivists written so little about manners? I am inclined to believe it is because they have accepted the common view of manners
In the nineteenth century, Horace Mann began "the reading wars" when he raged against instruction in phonics, calling the letters of the alp
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
CEI was established in March 1984. My background had been at the Council for a Competitive Economy, a group that was created as a
Editor's note: The author of this essay, Robert James Bidinotto, is also the author of numerous articles and several books, including...
The story is that you came to Objectivism later in life than most people do and that you came to it more through a process of thought than..
With only a little imagination, Atlas Shrugged may be read as a tale about ingratitude. Many passages make the point, but the most instruct
In The Great Gatsby, in order to traduce the bourgeois tradition of boot-strapping, F. Scott Fitzgerald parodied the self-help program of
In her speech "The Objectivist Ethics," Ayn Rand described the virtue of pride as "moral ambitiousness," because it is predicated on the asp
First, it is important to appreciate that Locke was simultaneously a dedicated political activist and a profound thinker. His body of
Ayn Rand contrasted her morality of rational self-interest not just with altruism but with that irrational egoism which she acknowledged to
That is an interesting story. Originally, I planned to write a Ph.D. dissertation confined to interpreting Locke's moral and political
Christianity has long appreciated its followers' need for tales of model people and behavior. Its fundamental message is conveyed as the
When Ayn Rand called capitalism "the unknown ideal," she might have meant one of two things: Capitalism is an ideal social system that we have never known; or, capitalism is a social system that we have never known to be an ideal.
It's the issue that won't go away. The tragedy at Columbine High School, in Littleton, Colorado, was only one in a series of violent episode
On March 8, 1999, Joe DiMaggio died in his 85th year, a baseball legend, but also an American hero who represented the virtues and ideals of
Currently, Stephen R.C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University and the executive director of the Center for Ethics
In order to answer that question, I have to share an experience. In the summer of 1991, I was on a three-week tour of Japan, and I finished
While the selection criteria described in this article apply to children's books in general, the examples cited are drawn from picture books
In Atlas Shrugged , when Dagny Taggart leaves her position at the railroad and "retires" to her cabin in the Berkshires, she thinks about