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Book Review: Seven Deadly Sins, Part III: Lust

Simon Blackburn has an ambitious goal: to raise lust “from the category of sin to that of virtue.” His effort, Lust, is the third in a...

Mar 15, 2011
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Bradley Doucet
9 Mins
Rational Individualism Will Survive

May 2008 -- One of my editorial pleasures is to be able to showcase fine thinkers who are willing and able to debate the implications of sha

Mar 15, 2011
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Robert J. Bidinotto
6 Mins
Some Points of Agreement Between Ayn Rand and Nietzsche

Kevin Hill writes: “Given Nietzsche’s elusiveness and suggestiveness, I think that trying to understand Nietzsche in terms of a list of

Mar 8, 2011
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David L. Potts
5 Mins
Epitome of Will to Power, Book 3, Part I

This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 2000 online "CyberSeminar" entitled " Nietzsche and Objectivism ."...

Mar 8, 2011
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David L. Potts
5 Mins
A Modern Scholasticism: Reflections on Derrida's "Cogito and the History of Madness

My primary assignment in this post is to comment on Jacques Derrida’s lecture “Cogito and the History of Madness.” So, I will begin with...

Feb 28, 2011
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9 Mins
Response by Jamie Mellway

This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 1999 online "CyberSeminar" entitled " The Continental Origins of Postmodernism ."

Feb 27, 2011
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Jamie Melway
2 Mins
Feminism and the Future

Winter 2010 -- Imagine a rich, new media landscape—one that extols complex heroines whose lives expand a young women's sense of the many...

Feb 8, 2011
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10 Mins
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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Bradley Doucet
10 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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Marsha Enright
6 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
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
Libertarian Package Deals

April 2008 -- Editor’s note: I’m pleased to yield my usual editorial space this month to Gene Holloway, director of operations and

Jan 26, 2011
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Eugène C. Holloway
7 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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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 State Project

The Atlas Society does not at this time have an official position on the Free State Project. However, I think it is safe to say that the

Jan 25, 2011
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2 Mins
Francine Prose: "Gluttony: The Seven Deadly Sins"

It may be far less common today than it once was to think of gluttony as an actual crime against heaven, but it is still the one among the

Jan 16, 2011
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Bradley Doucet
9 Mins
Rage and Objectivism

One cannot avoid recognizing that we live in a very angry age. At one time, people spoke to “My worthy opponent” when addressing someone...

Dec 29, 2010
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Barbara Branden
10 Mins
How Preet Bharara Is Changing the Nature of Insider Trading

In my editorial “ Consider the Source ,” I speculated that Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, was

Dec 15, 2010
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3 Mins
Consider the Source: U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara

Earlier, I mentioned that accusation —of “rampant” insider trading—in connection with a sweeping new prosecution that has been launched by

Dec 14, 2010
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5 Mins
Andy McCarthy on the Insider-Trading Case

Andy McCarthy was a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, which is where many financial cases are tried. Thus, he speaks

Nov 25, 2010
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2 Mins

Nous promouvons un objectivisme ouvert : la philosophie de la raison, de la réussite, de l'individualisme et de la liberté.