“Midas Mulligan,” says the shadowy figure who accosts the prominent banker in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged .
Objectivism holds that each person should be responsible for himself, and be free to live as he judges best. This doesn't preclude charity..
My chief role on this script—as on scripts from previous projects—was to review the script before it was finalized and flag anything
Bryan suggested that we might find his reading of “What Is Metaphysics?” too Sartrean; I confess I did find it so. I was particularly
I want to lay out what I understand to be the basic structure of the argument, along the way dealing with some misunderstandings to which
When I was a (much!) younger philosophy student, I used to argue vehemently with people who accepted the then very fashionable doctrine of c
Let me give you some background first. I had purchased a fifteen-year lease to make a movie of the book in August 1992 from Leonard Peikoff
In his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in tandem with the script for the epic movie of the same name, Arthur....
Estas fueron las sabias palabras de P. J. O'Rourke la última vez que los conductores intentaron culpar de sus accidentes automovilísticos a una «aceleración repentina e involuntaria...
One of the pleasures of being idealistic and pointing out society’s flaws is being asked all too frequently, “If you don’t like it here...
Winter 2010 -- Imagine a rich, new media landscape—one that extols complex heroines whose lives expand a young women's sense of the many...
BOOK REVIEW: Terry Goodkind, The Sword of Truth series (New York: Tor Books, 1994–2005).
The young child who turns into the restlessly eager-to-learn, -to create, -to achieve adult is the fountainhead of human progress......
February 28, 2003 -- A state university uses racial criteria in choosing candidates for admission. It has been doing this for years, as have
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..
