The Business Rights Watch covers a number of different issues: Overcriminalzation is one, obviously, the process of making illegal that whic
The Business Rights Watch covers a number of different issues: Overcriminalzation is one, obviously, the process of making illegal that whic
Objectivists mean by "spiritual values" those values that fulfill the needs of human consciousness. The word "spirit" indeed refers
Every initial property rights claim involves seizure of property, in a sense. As no property rights exist before property rights are founded
Objectivism is totally opposed to racism. It is an individualist philosophy, and it holds that all people, first and foremost, should be....
Morally there is a kind of symmetry between the two types of reparations cases: In general, there is no justice in blaming a group for the
Ayn Rand indeed regarded Anna Karenina as her least favorite novel. She presented her negative analysis of Anna Karenina in the article...
If only Progressivism could be a genus of Objectivism! But, alas, no.The Progressive movement was originally an intellectual and political
November 1999 -- Objectivists too often reduce the life and achievement of James J. Hill to a single debating point: He built a
"The needy" come in two classes: those who are unable to care for themselves, and those who are able. Objectivism holds that it is not...
Objectivism does not recognize "parapsychological phenomena." As far as I know, there is no reliable evidence for any of them. Some forms...
Larry Ribstein has a review of the anti-capitalist film Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. And here is his article on the original Wall
One of the strangest stories in English literature is the rise and fall of Joseph Addison’s Cato, which was first performed in London in....
America has been the land of the individual, and most Americans have thought of themselves as individualists. We still speak favorably of...
Whoever makes something, having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process…is entitled to it. The situation is no
There Will Be Blood. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Martin Stringer, Kevin J. O’Connor, Jacob Stringer, Matthew Braden Stringer, Ciar
You’re right to point out the contrast I make between capitalism and morality.” So said New York Times columnist John Tierney in response...
A lot of my listeners will often call up and say, “I preferred you when you were a Libertarian.” I always tell them I never was a....
Individualism seemed to have few accomplishments and fewer adherents, back when I first encountered it, some forty-five years ago...
May 2008 -- I’m not supposed to like Americanizing Shelley, at least not according to the unwritten code of my profession. It doesn’t affect
Winter 2005 -- I don’t watch TV—we’ve lived more than fifteen years without cable—and I’m not a big fan of film. My personal escape is