What is the foundation of human happiness, prosperity, cooperation and freedom? At the 2011 FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Whole Foods CEO and...
What is the foundation of human happiness, prosperity, cooperation and freedom? At the 2011 FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Whole Foods CEO and...
Notice, first, that the objects of loyalty are human and institutional. One is loyal to a friend, an organization, a spouse, a country...
In this talk, delivered at the 2012 Atlas Summit, Professor Stephen Hicks presents an Objectivist perspective on entrepreneurship and
Atlas Summit 2012 -- In her book, The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand exhorted readers to put the word "selfishness" to its true and proper
Ayn Rand es una de esas cosas que muchos de nosotros, cuando teníamos 17 o 18 años y nos sentíamos incomprendidos, captábamos. Luego, a medida que envejecemos, nosotros..
We're very pleased to announce that David Kelley's classic treatise on epistemology, The Evidence of the Senses: A Realist Theory of Percept
If man is to live on earth, it is right for him to use his mind, it is right to act on his own free judgment, it is right to work for his
How do you like your Objectivism? Liberal: freshly phrased (but loosely represented), full of new connections, etc?
Objectivists have long hoped to see a high-quality academic journal focusing on Objectivism. Last month's publication of The Journal of Ayn
Art is widely thought of as indefinable, inherently subjective, and disconnected from any practical need or concern. Many modern thinkers
BOOK REVIEW : Richard Taylor, Restoring Pride: The Lost Virtue of Our Age (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Press, 1996)
The heroes of Ayn Rand’s fiction are great achievers, like Howard Roark, the superlative architect in The Fountainhead, and John Galt, the b
It is very difficult, if one does not read extensively in seventeenth and eighteenth century thought, to understand quite how speculative
Ayn Rand was that most delightful of philosophers—the philosopher who proposes large and interesting theories, and allows them to remain...
That pithy advice, usually attributed to Henry Ford, expresses one of the most frequent themes in the vast literature of self-improvement...
In this webinar, recorded on June 29, 2011, William R Thomas discusses pride as "the first and last of the virtues." Pride connects
August 30, 2002 -- Objectivism distinguishes between errors of ignorance and errors of morality, and libertarianism distinguishes between
Are you rational? Or do you yield often to vices such as emotionalism, bias, and dogmatism? On October 21st, 2010, William R Thomas lead an
Judge others, and prepare to be judged. We live in society, but how can we deal with others in a way that promotes rational, productive
On August 2nd, 2009, The New York Times profiled BB&T’s John Allison , who put Ayn Rand’s principles to work at that bank when he was CEO...