I cannot take the helm of this magazine without first paying tribute to the helmsman who has steered it so far, and so true..
I cannot take the helm of this magazine without first paying tribute to the helmsman who has steered it so far, and so true..
How many Objectivists are there among television actresses? Well, there is one for sure: Tracey Ross of NBC’s popular soap opera “Passions.
March 2006 -- In March, I was stunned to learn of the unexpected death of a remarkable individualist and friend, Madeleine Pelner Cosman.
Summer 2006 -- Malcolm Gladwell's Blink stayed on the bestseller list for months. It defends the merits of making major decisions quickly...
Tom Wolfe is one of the most original, honest, and unfettered contemporary observers of American culture alive today. Originator of “the New
The fall season ushers in Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and, this year, Ramadan as well. Winter brings Christmas and Hanukkah. Spring takes....
In 1859, the first treatise on “best practices” appeared: Self-Help, With Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance, by Samuel
When I was a boy growing up in the suburbs of Baltimore, few songs stuck with me the way this one did. I think I was nine or ten, and upon..
So said James Clavell, an Australian immigrant to America who learned the fundamentals of the American outlook on life in a horrific...
The institutionalized discrimination against women and religious minorities, the denial of the freedom of conscience, the deeply rooted
Vince Flynn has written many compelling yarns, but his own story may be the most inspiring. It’s the tale of a kid from a big Midwestern fam
Too many Americans are losing the ability to take care of themselves and are instead looking to the government to run their lives for them..
As I understand it, Foucault is one of the widely recognized creators of Postmodernism. He was influenced by Hegel and Nietzsche, and he
An ideal Objectivist society would be one where there would be maximum individual freedom, and minimum governmental functions, primary among
Your argument is correct. But I will elaborate a little to make clear the Objectivist view.....
Induction is the process of reaching general conclusions from particular facts. It is contrasted in logic with deduction, which is the proce
Objectivists are advocates of reason, so we first try to reason with people who believe in ideas supported only by faith...
Workers' pay in the laissez-faire era of the19th century rose steadily with the innovations that increased productivity and lowered prices..
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...
I have not been blogging for the last month in order to devote my full time to an historically important violation of Business Rights. Now..