I enjoy the teaching very much, particularly since Rockford is a small liberal arts college, which means that our class sizes tend to be...
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists—and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds ...
Reason is the faculty which… identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses. Reason integrates man's perceptions by means
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
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive
Most major religions have believed in the existence of a supernatural realm, a realm beyond the natural world of physical objects and bodies
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..
The Fountainhead, Rand's first commercial success, is the story of Howard Roark, the brilliant architect who insists on the right to pursue
Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand ’s magnum opus. It is the culmination of her quest to portray an ideal man, and the first full expression of ...
Nationalism is the doctrine that a unitary cultural and political entity, the nation, should be the organizing principle of society....
In the last lecture, we looked at those arguments that won the debate for free speech. Historically, those arguments were nested in
Ayn Rand is best known for her novels, which continue to sell hundreds of thousands of copies each year, and for her philosophical essays on
Both as a thinker and as an artist, Ayn Rand swam against the tide. As a philosopher, she was an uncompromising champion of reason....
Ayn Rand. Her name is a kind of psychological litmus test; it inevitably provokes violent reactions of either fierce admiration or
The Atlas Society (formerly known as The Objectivist Center) works with students to spread the revolutionary ideas of......
In Tokyo, 94% of women in their 20s own a Louis Vuitton bag. Hong Kong boasts more Gucci and Hermes stores than Paris. China’s passion for l
In its efforts to supervise Nebraska cattle producers' obedience to the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency is literally...
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
Liberals have given conservatives much grief over the years for advocating an abstinence-only approach to sex education. “Kids are going....
Near the beginning of the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Butch Cassidy is challenged to a knife fight by another member of his Ho
