Maria Montessori, the first woman to graduate from the University of Rome Medical School, became a doctor in 1896. Her first post was in the
Dr. Stephen Hicks is chairman of the philosophy department at Rockford College, and executive director of the Center for Ethics and....
The philosophy of mathematics is the philosophical study of the concepts and methods of mathematics. It is concerned with the nature of....
As the U.S. Senate argues about how best to take over the American health care industry, it is worth taking a look at how government health
September 5, 2009 -- As if we needed more proof, the ongoing dustup over health care reform in the United States has made it painfully
April 24, 2009 -- As Congress returns from spring recess and gets to work hammering out a health care reform bill, that dreaded statistic
June 19, 2009 -- When I first saw the “Boycott UPS!” group on Facebook, I must admit that I was ready to believe the worst. After being
March 6, 2010--Lewis Carroll’s beloved Alice in Wonderland books have just been given a 3-D facelift by oddball director Tim Burton. In the
March 26, 2010—It used to be that someone who regularly drank or ate to excess was simply considered a glutton. A person who tried to get
In life, we take risks to achieve and maintain values. Objectivism holds that you should choose a course in life that will be conducive to
Early in her novel Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand presents us with a scene aboard a train that is entering Philadelphia. “An office building...
Objectivism has no position on most of the questions you ask, and in many cases the same general answer applies: We'll see when we get there
Marx often tried to blur the difference between economic and political power, to argue that those who command large fortunes have an
Magic and illusion are actions that aim to produce effects that appear to be paranormal or impossible by the laws of logic and nature that
Objectivism holds that the sole purpose of government is to secure our right to live free from force. This implies property rights and
Marxism and Objectivism are similar in very few respects: —They are systems of thought. But Marxism is primarily a political and economic
Ayn Rand and Mises knew each other, and they were on good personal terms, though never close friends. There is reason to think Rand read....
Cultures, like people, have a sense of life, which Ayn Rand characterized as an "emotional atmosphere." "This emotional atmosphere," she...
Objectivism's social ethic (which underlies its theory of rights) is based on the recognition of a complex fact about rational beings: that
As a child, I was fascinated by astronomy and space, and I hoped to live to see the day when men would travel to the Moon. In 1969, I manage