Two millennia before the World Trade Center soared over the New York skyline, another creation of commerce served the same purpose of peace
July/August 2001 -- Students at Harvard and activists throughout the country have been fighting lately for a so-called "living wage" of
BOOK REVIEW: Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food, Taming Our Primal Instincts. By Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan. (New York: Perseus Book
2001年9月11日早晨醒來,我們美國人感到驕傲、快樂和自信。我們知道自己是唯一的超級大國——
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...
John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, which was published thirty years ago, has been the most influential work of political philosophy in the
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
Many believe that animals have the right to be free from harm by people. In particular, they believe that animals should not be harmed in fo
Objectivism holds that in order to obtain knowledge, man must use an objective process of thought. The essence of objective thought is....
Why have Objectivists written so little about manners? I am inclined to believe it is because they have accepted the common view of manners
In the nineteenth century, Horace Mann began "the reading wars" when he raged against instruction in phonics, calling the letters of the alp
John Bechtel gave his first public talks for the Jehovah's Witnesses at the age of five. By age nine, he was addressing audiences numbering
CEI was established in March 1984. My background had been at the Council for a Competitive Economy, a group that was created as a
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With only a little imagination, Atlas Shrugged may be read as a tale about ingratitude. Many passages make the point, but the most instruct
The story is that you came to Objectivism later in life than most people do and that you came to it more through a process of thought than..
In her speech "The Objectivist Ethics," Ayn Rand described the virtue of pride as "moral ambitiousness," because it is predicated on the asp
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That is an interesting story. Originally, I planned to write a Ph.D. dissertation confined to interpreting Locke's moral and political