For as long as there has been an Objectivist movement, its ranks have periodically been thinned by schisms and excommunications, power...
When forced to assume [self-government], we were novices in its science. Its principles and forms had entered little into our....
"The twentieth-century statesman whom the Thomas Jefferson of January 1793 would have admired most is Pol Pot," head of the totalitarian....
You asked “Are we any safer?” I have to ask you, safer from what? If we are talking about a repeat of the 9/11 incident, I think we are.....
I’m never impressed by those studies that come out every so often showing that some large percentage of the American citizenry “does not
What she came up with may give you the giggles. But the plastic horn-shaped device, dubbed a “ SheWee ,” has become a hot commodity for...
I concur in the conclusion of the Scholars Commission: the allegation that Thomas Jefferson fathered one or more children by his slave....
It looks as though Dreamworks could not have come up with a better slogan for its final Shrek movie: After
My theme is that, on the German intellectual landscape, Kant is as close to Enlightenment thinking as it gets. From the perspective of most
Ayn Rand was an unusually creative philosopher. In every major branch of philosophy, from metaphysics to aesthetics, she had original...
In The Structure of Liberty, Randy Barnett takes on a complex and ambitious project. His main goal is to provide a systematic argument
In 2003, the Supreme Court declared that people challenging the constitutionality of an economic regulation must "negative every conceivable
Daniel Dennett (pictured at left) is a philosopher known for advocating a reductionistic view of consciousness, and for promoting the theory
The Objectivist morality, Ayn Rand said, is based on the choice to live. A perennial question in Objectivism is whether....
We are surrounded by examples, from the sublime to the murderous, that illustrate the importance in human life of the systems of belief we
I was walking back to the office one day, here in Washington, D.C., when a young woman accosted me on a street corner. “Got a minute for the
May 13, 2010 -- I do not often agree with Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson, especially when he pontificates about the nature of
A scramble by Democrats on Capitol Hill to prevent a particular vote on a particular bill highlights for us two of the most pernicious...
Israel is involved in another public relations mess. But even a superficial look at the incident at sea off Gaza shows that the real mess..
The first was the “Green Police” advertisement for Audi that was broadcast during this year’s Super Bowl. It starts with a clerk asking a...
