Professor Onkar Ghate at The Ayn Rand Institute: as an excellent op-ed on “Freedom of Speech” in wake of the murder of the French Cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo: When foreign governments, religious leaders and their faithful followers threaten and murder...
From Thanksgiving: A Most Selfish Holiday – Capitalism Magazine:Ah, Thanksgiving. To most of us, the word conjures up images of turkey dinner, pumpkin pie and watching football with family and friends. It kicks off the holiday season and is the biggest shopping...
by James Valliant Ayn Rand is hot right now. Sizzling hot. As government grows more intrusive, and our freedom shrinks, her novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, are selling at an unprecedented clip. Given today’s headlines, it is easy to see why. Less easy...
by Harry Binswanger Walter Hudson, a columnist at PJ Media, has written a defense of Objectivism against the sad and lame “critique” offered by Bill Whittle and [Somebody] Klavan. I read the comments section, and no one seemed to get the point. So I posted this: As a...
Who is Dave Brat? According to the The Washington Post Capitalism and ethics drive Brat’s world view. Clearly he is not Objectivist. But he is a welcome step in the moral direction. From Dave Brat Runs A $500,000 Program To Push Ayn Rand’s Ideas At College:Dave...
Stephen Moore: Governing right out of ‘Atlas Shrugged’ – The Orange County RegisterThis past week I thought about the wisdom of Ayn Rand and the timelessness of her message when I saw Obama’s former treasury secretary Timothy Geithner, boasting on TV...
Don Watkins demonstrates the importance of writing the right question in Voices for Reason – How To End the Welfare State With One Simple Question:In a recent debate on the welfare state, I was asked whether I thought it was important to help others. That, I...
Johnny Depp’s fiancee Amber Heard is a huge Ayn Rand fan | The Daily CallerJohnny Depp’s smoking hot, bisexual fiancee is a huge fan of Ayn Rand. On Christmas Eve 2013, the A-list actor became engaged to Hollywood knockout Amber Heard, star of such films as...
Dr. Peikoff makes a compelling case for a rational system of education by contrasting three schools of philosophy and the different educational alternatives they propose to replace our present system. He translates the usual abstract discussions in this field into...
Writes Malcolm Kline in Ayn Rand Reconsidered over at the website for Accuracy in Academia:She’s been derided in academia for decades: Panels disparaging her works are not unusual at the Modern Language Association’s annual confab. Yet and still, her virulent atheism...