As the United States pursues its war in Afghanistan, the national and the international press have focused attention on the civilian

Dec 1, 2001

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Patrick Stephens

10 Mins

What President Bush has called the first war of the twenty-first century has much in common with the great wars of the century just past...

Dec 1, 2001

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Brink Lindsey

7 Mins

Two millennia before the World Trade Center soared over the New York skyline, another creation of commerce served the same purpose of peace

Nov 1, 2001

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Neera K. Badhwar

4 Mins

The terrorist attacks of September 11 showed us good and evil, heroism and villainy. There were people who stared death in the face and, set

Nov 1, 2001

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William Thomas

6 Mins

When articles are written about Ayn Rand's influence, almost invariably they mention Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.

Nov 1, 2001

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3 Mins

July/August 2001 -- Students at Harvard and activists throughout the country have been fighting lately for a so-called "living wage" of

Oct 18, 2001

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D. Moskovitz

4 Mins

BOOK REVIEW: Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food, Taming Our Primal Instincts. By Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan. (New York: Perseus Book

Oct 14, 2001

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D. Moskovitz

10 Mins

Awakening on the morning of September 11, 2001, we Americans were proud, happy, and confident. We knew ourselves to be the only Superpower—

Oct 1, 2001

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Robert James Bidinotto

9 Mins

Most of us still find it impossible to grasp the destruction of the World Trade Center. It was real, we saw it, but it does not belong in...

Sep 13, 2001

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David Kelley Ph.D

4 Mins

John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, which was published thirty years ago, has been the most influential work of political philosophy in the

Jul 1, 2001

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Eric Mack

10 Mins

While Ayn Rand did consider homosexuality to be immoral, this was only her personal view. The morality of homosexuality is not a philosophic

Jun 29, 2001

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D. Moskovitz

4 Mins

May 2001 -- Last September, then-candidate George W. Bush promised "an orderly and timely withdrawal" of American ground forces from the Balkans. By contrast, defenders of the Clinton Balkan policy maintain that the United States must keep forces on the ground to demonstrate leadership. The administration's choice thus takes on a more-than-ordinary significance because the decision will constitute either an implicit criticism or an implicit endorsement of the way the Clinton administration conducted foreign policy. On both strategic and symbolic grounds, President Bush should bring the troops home. Strategically, their presence is not warranted. Symbolically, the Bush administration needs to signal a dramatic change in America's way of doing business in the world: a return to principled action in foreign policy and to the national interest as the overriding principle.

May 1, 2001

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James S. Robbins

February 2001 -- "There is no right to do wrong." So said Alan Keyes used to say during his presidential campaign. Apparently, he either did not grasp or did not care that freedom implies the right to do wrong, inasmuch as a person permitted no option but to walk the straight and narrow does not walk this path freely. Of course, libertarians know well the truth of that observation, but today it demands a rider: Freedom exists only when the right to do wrong is more than nominal. With public funds, administrative regulations, and liability law seeping into every corner of our lives, true freedom exists only if the right to do wrong is not abrogated by the oblique controls these tools allow.

Feb 5, 2001

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Some years ago, I wrote that we had reached a moment in history when self-esteem, which had always been a supremely important psychological

Feb 1, 2001

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Nathaniel Branden

10 Mins

Objectivism holds that in order to obtain knowledge, man must use an objective process of thought. The essence of objective thought is....

Jan 23, 2001

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D. Moskovitz

4 Mins

Many believe that animals have the right to be free from harm by people. In particular, they believe that animals should not be harmed in fo

Jan 23, 2001

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D. Moskovitz

3 Mins

Why have Objectivists written so little about manners? I am inclined to believe it is because they have accepted the common view of manners

Jun 1, 2000

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12 Mins

In the nineteenth century, Horace Mann began "the reading wars" when he raged against instruction in phonics, calling the letters of the alp

May 1, 2000

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9 Mins

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

CEI was established in March 1984. My background had been at the Council for a Competitive Economy, a group that was created as a

Mar 18, 2000

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10 Mins