"The twentieth-century statesman whom the Thomas Jefferson of January 1793 would have admired most is Pol Pot," head of the totalitarian....
The Objectivist morality, Ayn Rand said, is based on the choice to live. A perennial question in Objectivism is whether....
In 2003, the Supreme Court declared that people challenging the constitutionality of an economic regulation must "negative every conceivable
Ayn Rand was an unusually creative philosopher. In every major branch of philosophy, from metaphysics to aesthetics, she had original...
My theme is that, on the German intellectual landscape, Kant is as close to Enlightenment thinking as it gets. From the perspective of most
I would say that, over the last twenty-five years, the biggest triumph of the Enlightenment view is that people have grasped the concept...
A person of "principle" is commonly thought to be one who cleaves to his moral ideals and shuns "expediency" and compromise. Objectivism....
Many Americans—and even more Europeans—employ a pre-modern ideal when judging the market economy. According to this ideal, individuals enter
I enjoy the teaching very much, particularly since Rockford is a small liberal arts college, which means that our class sizes tend to be...
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists—and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds ...
Reason is the faculty which… identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses. Reason integrates man's perceptions by means
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
Most major religions have believed in the existence of a supernatural realm, a realm beyond the natural world of physical objects and bodies
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..
Nationalism is the doctrine that a unitary cultural and political entity, the nation, should be the organizing principle of society....
In the last lecture, we looked at those arguments that won the debate for free speech. Historically, those arguments were nested in
The Atlas Society (formerly known as The Objectivist Center) works with students to spread the revolutionary ideas of......
An inquiry into fraud (or indeed into direct physical coercion) must begin with an inquiry into rights. For neither fraud nor coercion can
Bill Clinton ran for president last year by attacking the 1980s as a "decade of greed" —attacking the leveraged buyouts and hostile takeover
The capitalist system came of age in the century from 1750 to 1850 as a result of three revolutions. The first was a political revolution...
