As reported to Edward L. Hudgins: Dear President George W. Bush and Senator Edward Kennedy, My teacher in social studies told us to write
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Two millennia before the World Trade Center soared over the New York skyline, another creation of commerce served the same purpose of peace
The terrorist attacks of September 11 showed us good and evil, heroism and villainy. There were people who stared death in the face and, set
When articles are written about Ayn Rand's influence, almost invariably they mention Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
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
Awakening on the morning of September 11, 2001, we Americans were proud, happy, and confident. We knew ourselves to be the only Superpower—
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
Objectivism holds that in order to obtain knowledge, man must use an objective process of thought. The essence of objective thought is....
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
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
Editor's note: The author of this essay, Robert James Bidinotto, is also the author of numerous articles and several books, including...
