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The Cyborg Variations

The piano prelude begins insistently, with a loud, rhythmic figure repeated immediately at a lower register. The music winds up and down

Jul 1, 2010
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Kira Newman
9 Mins
Galaxy Girl: From Classical to Electronica

Ask Jeannette Claudine Romeu what she does, and you’ll get a collection of answers. The fifth-generation musician is by turns a pianist...

Jul 1, 2010
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3 Mins
How Can One Create a Harmony of Interests Among People?

The Objectivist ethics holds the human good does not require human sacrifices and cannot be achieved by the sacrifices of anyone to anyone.

Jun 29, 2010
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William Thomas
5 Mins
The Best Work of the Best Minds

I am sitting on the shore of Lake Ontario. It is late spring, and the sun rose about five minutes ago. The waters, which appeared blue

Jun 29, 2010
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Stephen Hicks Ph.D.
9 Mins
Stand Up! (and Pee Like a Man)

What she came up with may give you the giggles. But the plastic horn-shaped device, dubbed a “ SheWee ,” has become a hot commodity for...

Jun 23, 2010
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Amanda Erickson
4 Mins
The Forgotten Essentials of Jefferson's Philosophy

"The twentieth-century statesman whom the Thomas Jefferson of January 1793 would have admired most is Pol Pot," head of the totalitarian....

Jun 23, 2010
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David N. Mayer
10 Mins
Choosing Life

The Objectivist morality, Ayn Rand said, is based on the choice to live. A perennial question in Objectivism is whether....

Jun 22, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
10 Mins
The Moral Counter-Revolution of the Goldman Sachs Case

May 13, 2010 -- I do not often agree with Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson, especially when he pontificates about the nature of

Jun 21, 2010
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5 Mins
Ten Habits of Hope

For most of man's existence on Earth, the universe has been anything but benevolent. Famines, floods, and earthquakes have destroyed whole

Jun 18, 2010
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Marsha Enright
Self Help: Egotists vs. Egoists

I would say that, over the last twenty-five years, the biggest triumph of the Enlightenment view is that people have grasped the concept...

Jun 18, 2010
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9 mins
Why Should One Act on Principle?

A person of "principle" is commonly thought to be one who cleaves to his moral ideals and shuns "expediency" and compromise. Objectivism....

Jun 18, 2010
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William Thomas
5 Mins
A Capitalist Superhero?

Like any story relying on the fantastic, the superhero film has a test: does the fantastic sharpen and enhance the theme and the conflicts

Jun 16, 2010
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Hugo Schmidt
5 Mins
In Defense of Cowboy Capitalism

Many Americans—and even more Europeans—employ a pre-modern ideal when judging the market economy. According to this ideal, individuals enter

Jun 16, 2010
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9 Mins
What is the Objectivist Theory of Knowledge (Epistemology)?

Reason is the faculty which… identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses. Reason integrates man's perceptions by means

Jun 15, 2010
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William Thomas
3 Mins
Art of Living

Inspired by the vision of life in Ayn Rand’s novels, many people have adopted Objectivism as a way of life: a code of conduct and character

Jun 15, 2010
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2 Mins
Is Religion Compatible with Objectivism?

Most major religions have believed in the existence of a supernatural realm, a realm beyond the natural world of physical objects and bodies

Jun 14, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
4 Mins
What is Philosophy?

In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code of values; in order..

Jun 14, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
3 Mins
TAS vs. ARI: A Question of Objectivity and Independence

The Atlas Society (formerly known as The Objectivist Center) works with students to spread the revolutionary ideas of......

Jun 10, 2010
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William Thomas
4 Mins
Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers Reviewed

Begin with the title. An “outlier,” in statistics, is an observation so far outside the general range of one’s data as to indicate a possibl

Jun 3, 2010
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10 Mins
The Left Endorses Abstinence-Only

Liberals have given conservatives much grief over the years for advocating an abstinence-only approach to sex education. “Kids are going....

May 30, 2010
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2 Mins

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