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Freedom and Virtue in the Good Society

One of the pleasures of being idealistic and pointing out society’s flaws is being asked all too frequently, “If you don’t like it here...

Feb 8, 2011
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برادلي دوسيت
10 Mins
Education for a New Enlightenment

The young child who turns into the restlessly eager-to-learn, -to create, -to achieve adult is the fountainhead of human progress......

Feb 4, 2011
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مارشا إنرايت
9 Mins
Review of "Bioshock"

I am Andrew Ryan, and I’m here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat ..

Jan 28, 2011
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باتريك ستيفينز
10 Mins
James D. Watson: Another Gadfly Swatted

The last chapter of James Watson’s story began as he was preparing to launch a book tour through Britain to promote his latest and...

Jan 28, 2011
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8 Mins
The Call of the Entrepreneur

This past September, I was thrilled to see The Call of the Entrepreneur , a new documentary by The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion

Jan 28, 2011
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مارشا إنرايت
6 Mins
America's Box Office Boycott

One of the more satisfying, under-reported barometers of cultural trends is the dismal box office take of recent movies attacking U.S....

Jan 28, 2011
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روبرت جيمس بيدينوتو
5 MIns
Washington Legal Foundation Files Amicus Brief in Rubashkin Case

When the ACLU gets involved in a case, even a business rights case, I tend not to notice, because of that organization’s infamous

Jan 28, 2011
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2 Mins
Israeli Airman Attains New Heights in Painting

Objectivists often look to the past for great artwork to contemplate and admire, avoiding the contemporary art scene as hopelessly......

Jan 27, 2011
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ميشيل فرام-كوهين
6 Mins
David Mayer Defends Liberty of Contract

Mayer, a professor of law at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, has just had a book published by the Cato Institute: Liberty..

Jan 27, 2011
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2 mins
Film Review: "I Am Legend"

Down here in south Texas, I’m occasionally drawn unawares into conversations with congregants of the evangelical Cornerstone Church, whose..

Jan 26, 2011
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روبرت إل جونز
5 Mins
Immortality and Value

Objectivists would try to employ any technology that reliably allowed them to live longer, fuller lives. It is wonderful and life-affirming

Jan 26, 2011
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2 Mins
Humanism vs. Objectivism

Humanism is the doctrine that there is only the real world, that reason is our means of knowledge, and that human well-being in this life is

Jan 26, 2011
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Book Review: Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War

April 2008 -- If Wernher von Braun had died in 1945 at the end of World War Two, he would have been remembered as the man who led the team..

Jan 26, 2011
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تايلور دينرمان
10 Mins
How Objectivists Respond to Religionists

Objectivists are advocates of reason, so we first try to reason with people who believe in ideas supported only by faith...

Jan 26, 2011
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2 Mins
The Forbidden O-Word

April 2008 -- Whatever you do, don’t get caught uttering this word. It is the latest addition to a growing list of taboo speech. If you are

Jan 26, 2011
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أماندا هول
10 Mins
Feminism and Objectivism

Objectivism is an individualist philosophy. It holds that each person is a rational animal and that all individuals....

Jan 25, 2011
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2 Mins
Free Will and Determinism

That we have free will is self-evident. You chose to write this question. Indeed, most fundamentally, you chose to think about it. This is

Jan 25, 2011
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2 Mins
Deism

Deism is the belief that an omnipotent, eternal, and all-knowing God created reality and set its rules, but that the Deity does not interven

Jan 25, 2011
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2 Mins
Escapism

You can find a discussion of one form of "escapism" (fantasy fiction) in my article " The Charms and Enchantments of Fantasy ." Or consider

Jan 25, 2011
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3 Mins
Death

Objectivism holds that there is no "supernatural" world. For more on this, see our Q&A on Religion and our Q&A on metaphysics...

Jan 25, 2011
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2 Mins

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