You asked “Are we any safer?” I have to ask you, safer from what? If we are talking about a repeat of the 9/11 incident, I think we are.....
"The twentieth-century statesman whom the Thomas Jefferson of January 1793 would have admired most is Pol Pot," head of the totalitarian....
When forced to assume [self-government], we were novices in its science. Its principles and forms had entered little into our....
We are surrounded by examples, from the sublime to the murderous, that illustrate the importance in human life of the systems of belief we
The Objectivist morality, Ayn Rand said, is based on the choice to live. A perennial question in Objectivism is whether....
Daniel Dennett (pictured at left) is a philosopher known for advocating a reductionistic view of consciousness, and for promoting the theory
In 2003, the Supreme Court declared that people challenging the constitutionality of an economic regulation must "negative every conceivable
In The Structure of Liberty, Randy Barnett takes on a complex and ambitious project. His main goal is to provide a systematic argument
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
It looks as though Dreamworks could not have come up with a better slogan for its final Shrek movie: After
You walk into a bar and see the same drunk who’s there every night lying on the floor in a pool of his reeking fluids. He raises his head...
This is not mere rhetoric. It describes a crack in the American community that since Barack Obama’s election as president has widened into..
It sure didn’t take long for Rand Paul’s political opponents to sharpen their daggers. Less than 24 hours after winning the Kentucky Senate
The Obama administration is launching a rabble-rousing assault on big banks. Thus we see on display in Washington another example of how...
The earthquake in Haiti that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and inflicted untold misery on the inhabitants of that country has
The first was the “Green Police” advertisement for Audi that was broadcast during this year’s Super Bowl. It starts with a clerk asking a...
Israel is involved in another public relations mess. But even a superficial look at the incident at sea off Gaza shows that the real mess..
A scramble by Democrats on Capitol Hill to prevent a particular vote on a particular bill highlights for us two of the most pernicious...
May 13, 2010 -- I do not often agree with Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson, especially when he pontificates about the nature of