I was introduced to Ayn Rand's work in 1984 by Lou Torres, who had founded Aristos, an arts journal informed by her philosophy of art, two
For a long time critics of modern and postmodern art have relied on the "Isn't that disgusting" strategy. By that I mean the strategy of ...
Just as there is much to celebrate in the life of John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), so is there much to loathe in the muckrakers' treatment o
On July 4th, we celebrate the creation of the United States of America. But today, Americans seem more divided than at any time in recent...
What does it mean in practice to hold a philosophy that declares that pristine nature has intrinsic value in itself, and that regards Man...
As Henry Steele Commager noted in The Empire of Reason: "It was Americans who not only embraced the body of Enlightenment principles, but...
In 1956, an extraordinary three-year agreement on cooperation was signed by the Department of Economics at the Chicago University and the...
For more than thirty years, promoting the development of higher self-esteem has been a major goal for clinical psychologists and educators..
In Atlas Shrugged, Dr. Robert Stadler finds it "outrageous" that a genius such as John Galt would have "performed a major revolution in...
There are museums of art, science, and natural history in major cities throughout the world. New York City alone has dozens of art museums,
CNN’s Lou Dobbs has come in for criticism for saying something sensible and insightful. It is too vague and too politically correct to call
Why do they hate us? How could they have done this? What were they trying to achieve?
Two millennia before the World Trade Center soared over the New York skyline, another creation of commerce served the same purpose of peace
BOOK REVIEW: Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food, Taming Our Primal Instincts. By Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan. (New York: Perseus Book
Awakening on the morning of September 11, 2001, we Americans were proud, happy, and confident. We knew ourselves to be the only Superpower—
Most of us still find it impossible to grasp the destruction of the World Trade Center. It was real, we saw it, but it does not belong in...
While Ayn Rand did consider homosexuality to be immoral, this was only her personal view. The morality of homosexuality is not a philosophic
Some years ago, I wrote that we had reached a moment in history when self-esteem, which had always been a supremely important psychological
Objectivism holds that in order to obtain knowledge, man must use an objective process of thought. The essence of objective thought is....
