The earthquake in Haiti that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and inflicted untold misery on the inhabitants of that country has
The Obama administration is launching a rabble-rousing assault on big banks. Thus we see on display in Washington another example of how...
It sure didn’t take long for Rand Paul’s political opponents to sharpen their daggers. Less than 24 hours after winning the Kentucky Senate
This is not mere rhetoric. It describes a crack in the American community that since Barack Obama’s election as president has widened into..
You walk into a bar and see the same drunk who’s there every night lying on the floor in a pool of his reeking fluids. He raises his head...
Ayn Rand portrayed her philosophy in action in her novels We the Living, Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged.
A person of "principle" is commonly thought to be one who cleaves to his moral ideals and shuns "expediency" and compromise. Objectivism....
I would say that, over the last twenty-five years, the biggest triumph of the Enlightenment view is that people have grasped the concept...
For most of man's existence on Earth, the universe has been anything but benevolent. Famines, floods, and earthquakes have destroyed whole
I enjoy the teaching very much, particularly since Rockford is a small liberal arts college, which means that our class sizes tend to be...
Many Americans—and even more Europeans—employ a pre-modern ideal when judging the market economy. According to this ideal, individuals enter
Like any story relying on the fantastic, the superhero film has a test: does the fantastic sharpen and enhance the theme and the conflicts
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
Reason is the faculty which… identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses. Reason integrates man's perceptions by means
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists—and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds ...
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..
Most major religions have believed in the existence of a supernatural realm, a realm beyond the natural world of physical objects and bodies
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive
Ayn Rand is best known for her novels, which continue to sell hundreds of thousands of copies each year, and for her philosophical essays on
In the last lecture, we looked at those arguments that won the debate for free speech. Historically, those arguments were nested in
