Objectivism is the philosophy of rational individualism founded by Ayn Rand (1905-82). In novels such as The Fountainhead and Atlas
Lange Zeit haben sich die Kritiker der modernen und postmodernen Kunst auf die Strategie "Ist das nicht eklig" verlassen. Damit meine ich die Strategie der ...
So wie es im Leben von John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) viel zu feiern gibt, so gibt es auch viel zu verabscheuen, was die Muckraker über ihn schreiben.
Frank Quattrone, the star investment banker of the dot-com era, was convicted in federal court on two counts of obstructing justice and....
A Gallup poll taken in May of 2003 found that only 3 percent of Americans believe animals do not need much legal protection. Fully 71 percen
Owen Flanagan (pictured here) is a prominent philosopher of mind who exemplifies the trend in his profession of paying closer attention to..
On July 4th, we celebrate the creation of the United States of America. But today, Americans seem more divided than at any time in recent...
Was bedeutet es in der Praxis, eine Philosophie zu vertreten, die erklärt, dass die unberührte Natur einen Wert an sich hat, und die den Menschen...
As Henry Steele Commager noted in The Empire of Reason: "It was Americans who not only embraced the body of Enlightenment principles, but...
Many of the towering figures of the Industrial Revolution could well be described as "the compleat producer." Richard Arkwright, for example
In 1956, an extraordinary three-year agreement on cooperation was signed by the Department of Economics at the Chicago University and the...
For more than thirty years, promoting the development of higher self-esteem has been a major goal for clinical psychologists and educators..
In 1987, during an in-depth interview, Barbara Walters pointedly asked actor Sean Connery why he chose to play golf only with men. It was...
In Atlas Shrugged findet es Dr. Robert Stadler "ungeheuerlich", dass ein Genie wie John Galt "eine große Revolution in der...
There are museums of art, science, and natural history in major cities throughout the world. New York City alone has dozens of art museums,
As human beings, we fear chaos and confusion and fight against them. We appreciate order. We celebrate reason, logic, and science because...
The structure of our federal system can be explained in major part by the final two provisions of our Bill of Rights, the Ninth and Tenth
All of her heroes grew from Cyrus, the hero of that children's story she loved about the British soldier in India [The Mysterious Valley]...