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Objectivism holds that there is no "supernatural" world. For more on this, see our Q&A on Religion and our Q&A on metaphysics...

Jan 25, 2011
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Free State Project

The Atlas Society does not at this time have an official position on the Free State Project. However, I think it is safe to say that the

Jan 25, 2011
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Free Will and Causality

Objectivism does not have a “strict physicalist doctrine.” It merely holds that whatever exists exists, has identity, and has causal powers

Jan 25, 2011
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Egoism and Capitalism vs. Altruism and Communism

To be objective means to be based on features of reality that can be observed or deduced by anyone. Scientific experiments are objective....

Jan 25, 2011
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Brian Gordon
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Education for the Poor

First, in a free society there really isn't as much of a class system as you may think. The correlation between a person's income and that

Jan 25, 2011
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Agnosticism and the Unknown: Round Two

You are right that Newton was not in a position to say in detail whether atoms or sub-atomic particles existed. We, like Newton, have plenty

Jan 23, 2011
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Atheism--Pascal's Wager

Objectivism is an atheistic philosophy because there is neither a coherent concept of what God would be nor are any of the arguments offered

Jan 23, 2011
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Agnosticism and Proof

Consider what it would take to try to prove that there is no such thing as a supernatural realm. What evidence would you cite to prove that

Jan 23, 2011
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Andrew Bissell
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Agnosticism and the Unknown

I hope you have read D. Moskovitz's answer on agnosticism. If not, you can find it here .You are right: we will never be omniscient. And

Jan 23, 2011
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Challenging the Left: The Case for Intellectual Diversity

In 1978, the Supreme Court's Bakke decision banned overt racial discrimination in college admissions but left the door open to using racial

Jan 19, 2011
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Robert Bradley, Jr
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Francine Prose: "Gluttony: The Seven Deadly Sins"

It may be far less common today than it once was to think of gluttony as an actual crime against heaven, but it is still the one among the

Jan 16, 2011
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Bradley Doucet
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Atlas Shrugged as Prophecy

October 2007 -- In the newsrooms of New York, in the corridors of Congress, and in the parlors of political parties, prognostication is the

Jan 8, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
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Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism

Jerry Kirkpatrick, a professor of International Business and Marketing at California Polytechnic Institute, has come out with another book a

Dec 31, 2010
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Marsha Enright
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Rage and Objectivism

One cannot avoid recognizing that we live in a very angry age. At one time, people spoke to “My worthy opponent” when addressing someone...

Dec 29, 2010
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Barbara Branden
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How Racist Are We?

I’m a bit of a racist. I’ll bet you are one, too.

Dec 19, 2010
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How Preet Bharara Is Changing the Nature of Insider Trading

In my editorial “ Consider the Source ,” I speculated that Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, was

Dec 15, 2010
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Consider the Source: U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara

Earlier, I mentioned that accusation —of “rampant” insider trading—in connection with a sweeping new prosecution that has been launched by

Dec 14, 2010
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Check Your Premises

“Check your premises” is an injunction that runs as a subtheme through Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged , and it is a phrase that seems to...

Nov 28, 2010
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Andy McCarthy on the Insider-Trading Case

Andy McCarthy was a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, which is where many financial cases are tried. Thus, he speaks

Nov 25, 2010
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The American Enlightenment's Other Side

The big influences on Hamilton were the economists he read and also the philosophers of natural law and English constitutional law....

Oct 22, 2010
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