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Labor Unions

An ideal Objectivist society would be one where there would be maximum individual freedom, and minimum governmental functions, primary among

Jan 26, 2011
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Malini Kochhar
2 Mins
Laissez-Faire Capitalism and Workers' Rights

Workers' pay in the laissez-faire era of the19th century rose steadily with the innovations that increased productivity and lowered prices..

Jan 26, 2011
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2 Mins
Government Jobs for Objectivists

Objectivism holds that each person's life is its own moral sanction, and that no one thrives in life except by living as a rational being...

Jan 25, 2011
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3 Mins
Hellhound on His Trail

Hampton was 6 when his hometown snapped. His father worked for the Memphis law firm that represented King when the civil rights leader led..

Dec 13, 2010
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Noah Bunn
10 Mins
America's Deficit Culture

We’ve heard for years that the government’s deficit was too big. They said it of Reagan’s deficit and George W. Bush’s. But no government...

Dec 1, 2010
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9 Mins
From Ocean to Ocean

When Ayn Rand created a heroic American dynasty for her novel Atlas Shrugged , she based the family's fortune not on oil, or autos, or

Oct 18, 2010
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Frank Bryan
9 Mins
The Relevance of Philosophy

One firm belief that I bring to the Business Rights Center is: Philosophy matters. Without a theoretical defense of the fundamentals...

Oct 17, 2010
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3 Mins
Pyramid of Ability and Individual Moral Worth

Objectivism holds that in a society in which people deal with each other by trade, there will exist a "pyramid of ability." It is a pyramid

Sep 29, 2010
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3 Mins
What Objectivists Can Learn from Young Jim Hill

November 1999 -- Objectivists too often reduce the life and achievement of James J. Hill to a single debating point: He built a

Sep 28, 2010
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8 Mins
The Wright Stuff

December 2003 -- Somewhere you've probably seen the old photos. The two men are wearing bowler hats and sack suits and celluloid collars

Aug 29, 2010
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Ralph Kinney Bennett
5 Mins
Hellacious Success

Those are not the kind of questions Landrum wants to be answering. “I’m looking for people who don’t need a lot of guidance,” he tells me...

Aug 25, 2010
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Amanda Erickson
6 Mins
Lives and Lessons for a Museum of Capitalism

July/August 2003 -- While collecting entries for this issue's "Cultural Calendar," my thoughts returned to David Kelley's article "For a

Aug 6, 2010
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5 Mins
Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment

During the fourth century B.C.—we don't know exactly when—a man, a resident of Athens, a student and teacher of philosophy, changed the worl

Aug 4, 2010
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10 Mins
Micro-Financing: Profit vs. Altruism

Muhammad Yunus, who founded Bangladesh's Grameen Bank in 1983, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his promotion of micro-financing, and..

Jul 11, 2010
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2 Mins
Restoring Glory: A Renaissance-style Art Studio Creates Modern Magic

Bill Mensching has aged a painting four hundred years, created a gigantic glass mural for a hotel in Las Vegas, and shipped the makings of..

Jul 3, 2010
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Amanda Erickson
5 Mins
The Bright Idea: The IQ2 US Debates

Since 2006, the most objective presentations of conservative views to be heard in Manhattan have probably been those offered at a program...

Jul 3, 2010
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5 Mins
The Cyborg Variations

The piano prelude begins insistently, with a loud, rhythmic figure repeated immediately at a lower register. The music winds up and down

Jul 1, 2010
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Kira Newman
9 Mins
Galaxy Girl: From Classical to Electronica

Ask Jeannette Claudine Romeu what she does, and you’ll get a collection of answers. The fifth-generation musician is by turns a pianist...

Jul 1, 2010
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3 Mins
The Best Work of the Best Minds

I am sitting on the shore of Lake Ontario. It is late spring, and the sun rose about five minutes ago. The waters, which appeared blue

Jun 29, 2010
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Stephen Hicks Ph.D.
9 Mins
Stand Up! (and Pee Like a Man)

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...

Jun 23, 2010
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Amanda Erickson
4 Mins

We promote open Objectivism: the philosophy of reason, achievement, individualism, and freedom.