Growing up during the 1950s, Robert Bidinotto became enthralled by TV vigilante heroes, such as The Lone Ranger, Zorro, and Batman. That
Intellectual battles are the cognitive lifeblood of a healthy society. Life is complicated and the stakes are high, so thoughtful and
Editor’s Note: Tal Tsfany’s 2017 young adult novel Sophie is the third installment of our Writers Series. Sophie is the story of Syrian
My topic is environmental philosophy and hazardous wastes. There are lots of benefits to living in a high-tech society—but there are also...
“So you think money is the root of all evil?” That is the question the wealthy, dashing copper magnate Francisco d’Anconia asked at the...
In the nineteenth century the question of the true meaning of socialism was a live issue among collectivists of all stripes. Kant, Herder...
A few years ago I read the book What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand (Open Court, 2000) by Louis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi..
In The Writers Series this month we feature another contemporary novel informed by the ideas and the romantic realism of Ayn Rand...
W. S. Gifford, the president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, called London on January 7, 1927 to speak with Sir Evelyn...
In “Benevolence versus Altruism” (The Objectivist Newsletter, July 1962), Nathaniel Branden decried the “package deal” that links altruism
According to Rand, ethics is based on the requirements of life. That which makes life possible sets the standard of good; that which
In all most traditional ethical theories, self interest is the target of morality, but it is the self interest of the better off, stronger
Altruism holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that
In the foreword to The Moral Basis of Individualism—a book that Ayn Rand began writing for Bobbs-Merrill in 1943 but never finished—we find
In the context of the history of ethics, this is not surprising. Business ethics is an applied discipline, and one would expect it to apply
On December 15, 1791, the United States Congress ratified the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution guaranteeing indi
This four-part series by The Atlas Society Senior Scholar Stephen Hicks, Ph.D is a justification of capitalism and of Ayn Rand’s ethics of..
In my last essay, I summarized some leading ideas of Auguste Comte, who coined the word “altruism” and defended the subordination of
A great many Republicans would be scared to death to recognize that altruism is the curse of the world and that as long as we go on
On December 5, 1933, Congress ratified the 21st Amendment and repealed Prohibition. While Ayn Rand personally rarely drank alcohol, she
