We all love to announce publicly our most glorious moments and accomplishments. However, a life best lived is a hero’s journey, a journey

Feb 25, 2020

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أغنيسكا بيلات

6 Mins

Editor’s Note: Alfred Kentigern Siewers is associate professor of English at Bucknell University and 2018–2019 William E. Simon visiting

Feb 17, 2020

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مارلين مور

9 Mins

Myths, legends, and stories infiltrate our collective and individual consciousness, and the same holds true for the visual arts. The myth of Icarus, who flew too high then crashed and burned, was mentioned by Apollodorus around 150 BC and has since shown up countless times in visual art.

Feb 12, 2020

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مايكل نيوبيري

8 Mins

Sabatini wrote swashbuckling historical fiction in the early part of the 20th century. Of his many books Captain Blood is probably the most

Feb 3, 2020

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جي بي ميدفيد

7 Mins

As written in the January 1st Poetic Justice Warrior Year in Review, Supremely independent, he was able to integrate his sense of the human

Jan 24, 2020

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مارك شوب

6 Mins

Thank you so very much for inviting me. I know the relationship between Objectivists and Libertarians hasn’t always been smooth. Ayn Rand famously called libertarians “the hippies of the right.”

Jan 17, 2020

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جينيفر أ. غروسمان

8 Mins

If Rush’s epic rock songs “2112” or “Anthem” are massaging your brain at high volume right now, then you know how great a loss the death of songwriter and drummer Neil Peart is to rock and roll...and to liberty. Peart, who died today of brain cancer, wrote “2112” in part as an homage to Ayn Rand’s 1938 dystopian novella Anthem.

Jan 10, 2020

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3 Mins

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Jan 1, 2020

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مستخدم ممتاز

9 Mins

We note with great sorrow the loss of David Mayer, who died November 23, 2019 at 63, of a lengthy illness.

Dec 30, 2019

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ديفيد كيلي، دكتوراه

3 Mins

Thank you so much, Stuart and Elise, and yes, a special, special thank you to Elise. I empathize with what it’s like to be a part of an

Dec 17, 2019

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جينيفر أ. غروسمان

5 Mins

From the cave paintings of the Horses’ Heads to figurative art today, visual art is about perception and subject. We artists, and our anien

Dec 9, 2019

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مايكل نيوبيري

7 Mins

Who could even imagine, now, a modern nation without recycling bins, recycling plants, and yoghurt containers made with recycled materials..

Dec 3, 2019

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والتر دونواي

10 Mins

Over its history, antitrust law has provided a good measure of the changing views of the relative beneficence of the market and the state...

Nov 12, 2019

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جون أو ماكجينيس

5 Mins

I was born in Belgrade, in August 1935, to a Ph.D mechanical engineer father and a conservatory-trained pianist mother. IN LIBRARY WITH R

Nov 5, 2019

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مارلين مور

9 Mins

Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin (a brand of the narcotic, oxycodone), has filed for bankruptcy and the vultures (both public and private) will get a lot less than they’re hoping for. And one hopes the Sackler family, who owns Purdue, will escape lynching and bloodletting.

Nov 4, 2019

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دونا إف باريس

6 Mins

I think that one thing that Paterson’s writings give us is the opportunity to see what happens when power is concentrated by political mean

Oct 25, 2019

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مارلين مور

10 Mins

If it’s a coincidence that “individual” begins with a letter that’s also a closely associated word, it’s a happy one indeed. Individual and

Oct 7, 2019

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لورنس دبليو ريد

6 Mins

I wonder how many of you have waited, over the decades—with growing scorn for our academic..

Oct 3, 2019

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والتر دونواي

10 Mins

In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, Galt's Gulch was a physical place where the best minds could retreat – withdraw their skills and support from

Oct 2, 2019

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جيه لي بورتر وإد تيجا

3 Mins

While conservatives are leading in the battle of ideas, they have all but surrendered the culture war. Academia, entertainment, and high- an

Sep 30, 2019

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سام سوربو

4 Mins