As human beings, we fear chaos and confusion and fight against them. We appreciate order. We celebrate reason, logic, and science because...
The structure of our federal system can be explained in major part by the final two provisions of our Bill of Rights, the Ninth and Tenth
All of her heroes grew from Cyrus, the hero of that children's story she loved about the British soldier in India [The Mysterious Valley]...
CNN’s Lou Dobbs has come in for criticism for saying something sensible and insightful. It is too vague and too politically correct to call
Why do they hate us? How could they have done this? What were they trying to achieve?
As reported to Edward L. Hudgins: Dear President George W. Bush and Senator Edward Kennedy, My teacher in social studies told us to write
As the United States pursues its war in Afghanistan, the national and the international press have focused attention on the civilian
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...
Two millennia before the World Trade Center soared over the New York skyline, another creation of commerce served the same purpose of peace
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
When articles are written about Ayn Rand's influence, almost invariably they mention Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
July/August 2001 -- Students at Harvard and activists throughout the country have been fighting lately for a so-called "living wage" of
BOOK REVIEW: Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food, Taming Our Primal Instincts. By Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan. (New York: Perseus Book
Awakening on the morning of September 11, 2001, we Americans were proud, happy, and confident. We knew ourselves to be the only Superpower—
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...
John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, which was published thirty years ago, has been the most influential work of political philosophy in the
While Ayn Rand did consider homosexuality to be immoral, this was only her personal view. The morality of homosexuality is not a philosophic
Some years ago, I wrote that we had reached a moment in history when self-esteem, which had always been a supremely important psychological
Objectivism holds that in order to obtain knowledge, man must use an objective process of thought. The essence of objective thought is....
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
