It looks as though Dreamworks could not have come up with a better slogan for its final Shrek movie: After
My theme is that, on the German intellectual landscape, Kant is as close to Enlightenment thinking as it gets. From the perspective of most
Ayn Rand was an unusually creative philosopher. In every major branch of philosophy, from metaphysics to aesthetics, she had original...
In The Structure of Liberty, Randy Barnett takes on a complex and ambitious project. His main goal is to provide a systematic argument
In 2003, the Supreme Court declared that people challenging the constitutionality of an economic regulation must "negative every conceivable
Daniel Dennett (pictured at left) is a philosopher known for advocating a reductionistic view of consciousness, and for promoting the theory
The Objectivist morality, Ayn Rand said, is based on the choice to live. A perennial question in Objectivism is whether....
We are surrounded by examples, from the sublime to the murderous, that illustrate the importance in human life of the systems of belief we
I was walking back to the office one day, here in Washington, D.C., when a young woman accosted me on a street corner. “Got a minute for the
May 13, 2010 -- I do not often agree with Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson, especially when he pontificates about the nature of
A scramble by Democrats on Capitol Hill to prevent a particular vote on a particular bill highlights for us two of the most pernicious...
Israel is involved in another public relations mess. But even a superficial look at the incident at sea off Gaza shows that the real mess..
The first was the “Green Police” advertisement for Audi that was broadcast during this year’s Super Bowl. It starts with a clerk asking a...
The earthquake in Haiti that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and inflicted untold misery on the inhabitants of that country has
The Obama administration is launching a rabble-rousing assault on big banks. Thus we see on display in Washington another example of how...
It sure didn’t take long for Rand Paul’s political opponents to sharpen their daggers. Less than 24 hours after winning the Kentucky Senate
This is not mere rhetoric. It describes a crack in the American community that since Barack Obama’s election as president has widened into..
You walk into a bar and see the same drunk who’s there every night lying on the floor in a pool of his reeking fluids. He raises his head...
Ayn Rand portrayed her philosophy in action in her novels We the Living, Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged.
A person of "principle" is commonly thought to be one who cleaves to his moral ideals and shuns "expediency" and compromise. Objectivism....
