I want to lay out what I understand to be the basic structure of the argument, along the way dealing with some misunderstandings to which
Bryan suggested that we might find his reading of “What Is Metaphysics?” too Sartrean; I confess I did find it so. I was particularly
Let me give you some background first. I had purchased a fifteen-year lease to make a movie of the book in August 1992 from Leonard Peikoff
In his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in tandem with the script for the epic movie of the same name, Arthur....
Estas fueron las sabias palabras de P. J. O'Rourke la última vez que los conductores intentaron culpar de sus accidentes automovilísticos a una «aceleración repentina e involuntaria...
BOOK REVIEW: Terry Goodkind, The Sword of Truth series (New York: Tor Books, 1994–2005).
Winter 2010 -- Imagine a rich, new media landscape—one that extols complex heroines whose lives expand a young women's sense of the many...
One of the pleasures of being idealistic and pointing out society’s flaws is being asked all too frequently, “If you don’t like it here...
The young child who turns into the restlessly eager-to-learn, -to create, -to achieve adult is the fountainhead of human progress......
February 28, 2003 -- A state university uses racial criteria in choosing candidates for admission. It has been doing this for years, as have
I am Andrew Ryan, and I’m here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat ..
The last chapter of James Watson’s story began as he was preparing to launch a book tour through Britain to promote his latest and...
This past September, I was thrilled to see The Call of the Entrepreneur , a new documentary by The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion
One of the more satisfying, under-reported barometers of cultural trends is the dismal box office take of recent movies attacking U.S....
When the ACLU gets involved in a case, even a business rights case, I tend not to notice, because of that organization’s infamous
Objectivists often look to the past for great artwork to contemplate and admire, avoiding the contemporary art scene as hopelessly......
Mayer, a professor of law at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, has just had a book published by the Cato Institute: Liberty..
People act unselfishly all the time. Indeed, that is one key to what is wrong with much of the world. It certainly explains why so many love
An ideal Objectivist society would be one where there would be maximum individual freedom, and minimum governmental functions, primary among
Contrary to logical positivism, the cognitive meaning of a statement is not equal to its means of verification. Instead, the meaning of a...
