Education for a New Enlightenment
The young child who turns into the restlessly eager-to-learn, -to create, -to achieve adult is the fountainhead of human progress......
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The young child who turns into the restlessly eager-to-learn, -to create, -to achieve adult is the fountainhead of human progress......
When the ACLU gets involved in a case, even a business rights case, I tend not to notice, because of that organization’s infamous
One of the more satisfying, under-reported barometers of cultural trends is the dismal box office take of recent movies attacking U.S....
This past September, I was thrilled to see The Call of the Entrepreneur , a new documentary by The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion
The last chapter of James Watson’s story began as he was preparing to launch a book tour through Britain to promote his latest and...
I am Andrew Ryan, and I’m here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat ..
Mayer, a professor of law at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, has just had a book published by the Cato Institute: Liberty..
Objectivists often look to the past for great artwork to contemplate and admire, avoiding the contemporary art scene as hopelessly......
April 2008 -- Whatever you do, don’t get caught uttering this word. It is the latest addition to a growing list of taboo speech. If you are
Objectivists are advocates of reason, so we first try to reason with people who believe in ideas supported only by faith...
April 2008 -- If Wernher von Braun had died in 1945 at the end of World War Two, he would have been remembered as the man who led the team..
Humanism is the doctrine that there is only the real world, that reason is our means of knowledge, and that human well-being in this life is
Objectivists would try to employ any technology that reliably allowed them to live longer, fuller lives. It is wonderful and life-affirming
Down here in south Texas, I’m occasionally drawn unawares into conversations with congregants of the evangelical Cornerstone Church, whose..
First, in a free society there really isn't as much of a class system as you may think. The correlation between a person's income and that
To be objective means to be based on features of reality that can be observed or deduced by anyone. Scientific experiments are objective....
Objectivism does not have a “strict physicalist doctrine.” It merely holds that whatever exists exists, has identity, and has causal powers
The Atlas Society does not at this time have an official position on the Free State Project. However, I think it is safe to say that the
Objectivism holds that there is no "supernatural" world. For more on this, see our Q&A on Religion and our Q&A on metaphysics...
You can find a discussion of one form of "escapism" (fantasy fiction) in my article " The Charms and Enchantments of Fantasy ." Or consider