Home
Tags
Ideas and Ideologies

Ideas and Ideologies

Environmentalism: Don't Judge It by Its Extremists

February 2001 -- In recent months, the Environmental Liberation Front (ELF) has claimed responsibility for acts of arson across the country

Oct 21, 2010
|
Patrick Stephens
5 Mins
Morality and Politics

February 2001 -- A nation's political trends are governed by several factors--the state of the economy, the vested interests of politicians

Oct 21, 2010
|
David Kelley Ph.D
5 Mins
Supply-Side Ethics

A writer suffering from clinical depression finds relief from Prozac. Realizing how profoundly the drug's inventor has affected her life....

Oct 20, 2010
|
David Kelley Ph.D
Postmodern Medicine

Postmodernism is the most recent incarnation and the now-reigning cult of the "anti-Enlightenment," having arisen largely from the ravings

Oct 19, 2010
|
James Lee Brooks
7 Mins
Picnic Time for Teddy Bears

A man from my neck of the woods was mauled by a bear. A politician, to be more accurate. John Chelminiak, who is alive but disfigured for...

Oct 15, 2010
|
Ilana Mercer
4 Mins
Community and American Individualism

November 2001 -- One of the most popular mantras, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, declares how great it is to see Americans

Oct 14, 2010
|
Shawn E. Klein
5 Mins
'It Was Like a Movie': Atrocity and the Arts

November 2001 -- A article from the Navigator Special: The Assault on Civilization, posted October 12, 2001. Published in the November 2001

Oct 14, 2010
|
Richard Speer
10 Mins
The Intellectual as Barbarian

January 2002 -- The assault on civilization did not begin with the terrorist attacks of September 11. As Objectivists know, such an assault

Oct 13, 2010
|
5 Mins
Romanticism is Dead! Long Live Romanticism!

January 2002 -- When Victor Hugo was writing his last novel, Ninety-Three, during the years 1872 and 1873, the Naturalist school of fiction

Oct 13, 2010
|
Michelle Fram-Cohen
10 Mins
Sociobiology and Altruism

Sociobiology is the doctrine that we have fundamental behaviors and psychological characteristics that are explained by the incentives

Sep 30, 2010
|
3
Progressivism and Objectivism

If only Progressivism could be a genus of Objectivism! But, alas, no.The Progressive movement was originally an intellectual and political

Sep 29, 2010
|
William Thomas
4 Mins
Parapsychology

Objectivism does not recognize "parapsychological phenomena." As far as I know, there is no reliable evidence for any of them. Some forms...

Sep 28, 2010
|
William Thomas
2 mins
Anti-Capitalist Dreams

Larry Ribstein has a review of the anti-capitalist film Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. And here is his article on the original Wall

Sep 25, 2010
|
3 Mins
The Need for a New Individualism

America has been the land of the individual, and most Americans have thought of themselves as individualists. We still speak favorably of...

Sep 15, 2010
|
Edward Hudgins
10 Mins
Robert Nozick and the Good Fight

Whoever makes something, having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process…is entitled to it. The situation is no

Sep 9, 2010
|
David Kelley Ph.D
4 Mins
Individualism Meets Pulp Fiction

Winter 2005 -- I don’t watch TV—we’ve lived more than fifteen years without cable—and I’m not a big fan of film. My personal escape is

Sep 8, 2010
|
Lou Villadsen
8 Mins
Anger: The Seven Deadly Sins

Robert Thurman has always had a problem with his temper, he tells us in Anger, the fifth in a series of books about the seven deadly sins...

Sep 8, 2010
|
Bradley Doucet
9 Mins
Huck Finn and the Nuremberg Rally

March 2006 -- Some of the most frightening images from Nazi Germany can be seen in Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will, the cinematic...

Sep 8, 2010
|
Bruce S. Thornton
5 Mins
Sidebar: Pioneers of Egalitarianism

Richard Henry Tawney (1880–1962) was a British historian who spent most of his career at the London School of Economics. He wrote widely on

Sep 8, 2010
|
David Kelley Ph.D
2 Mins
The Servile Citizen

A large billboard in a local Metro station cautions passersby to “Cover your cough” and “Wash your hands frequently” when you have a cold...

Sep 7, 2010
|
Edward Hudgins
6 Mins

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