German Chancellor Angela Merkel is not returning U.S. President Barack Obama's calls. I'm being theatrical. Obama is demanding that Germany
When economic crises hit, politicians of both parties are demanding more regulation of the economy. Failures in banking and finance...
Front, my side (call us the “Alliance for Choice”) was recently crushed by the Egalitarian Axis in the Battle of the Universal Pre-K Lottery
La epistemología es la rama de la filosofía que investiga la naturaleza básica del conocimiento, incluidas sus fuentes y validación...
Antes de la filosofía, durante decenas de miles de años, los seres humanos no veían el mundo como lo vemos nosotros. ¿Por qué creció el Nilo e inundó el campo
For as long as there has been an Objectivist movement, its ranks have periodically been thinned by schisms and excommunications, power...
El siguiente es el capítulo 5 del libro The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand: Truth and Toleration in Objectivism, de David Kelley.
The Gulf Spill Once again, journalists are speculating about the possibility of bringing criminal charges against BP CEO Tony Hayward...
Twenty years ago, on February 24, 1990, George Walsh and David Kelley stood before a crowded lecture hall in New York City to announce the
Como saben los lectores de este Diario, en los últimos meses el Instituto ha estado luchando contra la medicina socializada, patrocinando una serie de conferencias..
I concur in the conclusion of the Scholars Commission: the allegation that Thomas Jefferson fathered one or more children by his slave....
What she came up with may give you the giggles. But the plastic horn-shaped device, dubbed a “ SheWee ,” has become a hot commodity for...
I’m never impressed by those studies that come out every so often showing that some large percentage of the American citizenry “does not
You asked “Are we any safer?” I have to ask you, safer from what? If we are talking about a repeat of the 9/11 incident, I think we are.....
"The twentieth-century statesman whom the Thomas Jefferson of January 1793 would have admired most is Pol Pot," head of the totalitarian....
Cuando nos vimos obligados a asumir [el autogobierno], éramos novatos en su ciencia. Sus principios y formas habían entrado poco en nuestra....
We are surrounded by examples, from the sublime to the murderous, that illustrate the importance in human life of the systems of belief we
La moral Objetivista, decía Ayn Rand, se basa en la elección de vivir. Una cuestión perenne en el Objetivismo es si....
Daniel Dennett (pictured at left) is a philosopher known for advocating a reductionistic view of consciousness, and for promoting the theory
In 2003, the Supreme Court declared that people challenging the constitutionality of an economic regulation must "negative every conceivable