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...
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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...
The young child who turns into the restlessly eager-to-learn, -to create, -to achieve adult is the fountainhead of human progress......
I am Andrew Ryan, and I’m here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat ..
The last chapter of James Watson’s story began as he was preparing to launch a book tour through Britain to promote his latest and...
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
One of the more satisfying, under-reported barometers of cultural trends is the dismal box office take of recent movies attacking U.S....
When the ACLU gets involved in a case, even a business rights case, I tend not to notice, because of that organization’s infamous
Objectivists often look to the past for great artwork to contemplate and admire, avoiding the contemporary art scene as hopelessly......
Mayer, a professor of law at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, has just had a book published by the Cato Institute: Liberty..
Down here in south Texas, I’m occasionally drawn unawares into conversations with congregants of the evangelical Cornerstone Church, whose..
Objectivists would try to employ any technology that reliably allowed them to live longer, fuller lives. It is wonderful and life-affirming
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
April 2008 -- If Wernher von Braun had died in 1945 at the end of World War Two, he would have been remembered as the man who led the team..
Objectivists are advocates of reason, so we first try to reason with people who believe in ideas supported only by faith...
April 2008 -- Whatever you do, don’t get caught uttering this word. It is the latest addition to a growing list of taboo speech. If you are
Objectivism is an individualist philosophy. It holds that each person is a rational animal and that all individuals....
That we have free will is self-evident. You chose to write this question. Indeed, most fundamentally, you chose to think about it. This is
Deism is the belief that an omnipotent, eternal, and all-knowing God created reality and set its rules, but that the Deity does not interven
You can find a discussion of one form of "escapism" (fantasy fiction) in my article " The Charms and Enchantments of Fantasy ." Or consider
Objectivism holds that there is no "supernatural" world. For more on this, see our Q&A on Religion and our Q&A on metaphysics...