May 13, 2010 -- I do not often agree with Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson, especially when he pontificates about the nature of
Many Americans—and even more Europeans—employ a pre-modern ideal when judging the market economy. According to this ideal, individuals enter
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....
In life, we take risks to achieve and maintain values. Objectivism holds that you should choose a course in life that will be conducive to
Early in her novel Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand presents us with a scene aboard a train that is entering Philadelphia. “An office building...
Among the world's great novelists, Ayn Rand stands almost alone in providing stirring portraits of entrepreneurs, industrialists, and banker
It's a typical 3-H Washington, D.C. summer: hazy, hot and humid. And with small variations, the rest of the country...
In February of this year, the Danish newspaper Politiken issued a formal apology for republishing a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed clad....
It’s about 2:30 a.m. when Laurent Prouvost bursts out of the pizzeria into driving rain. He races down Hickory Street after his stolen pedic
If the great cities of the world were personified as women, you might think of Paris as fearlessly avant-garde. New York is, obviously, a...
The entrepreneurial spirit is the spirit of enterprise: ambition to succeed, initiative in taking action, alertness to opportunity. It mean
In 1859, the first treatise on “best practices” appeared: Self-Help, With Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance, by Samuel..
I’m doing an autobiography. My long-time friend and colleague, Thomas Sowell, wrote an autobiography, A Personal Odyssey. He’s been after
One of my favorite photographs of Ayn Rand dates back to 1961. In it, she is the only woman at the President's Advanced Round Table of the
Frank Quattrone, the star investment banker of the dot-com era, was convicted in federal court on two counts of obstructing justice and....
Some years ago, I wrote that we had reached a moment in history when self-esteem, which had always been a supremely important psychological
When I was growing up in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the 1950s, I was surrounded by neighbors and relatives who were "Norton men": employee
A cardinal principle of the Objectivist ethics is that, in Ayn Rand’s words, “productive work is the central purpose of a rational man’s
