In The Structure of Liberty, Randy Barnett takes on a complex and ambitious project. His main goal is to provide a systematic argument
Ayn Rand war eine ungewöhnlich kreative Philosophin. In jedem wichtigen Zweig der Philosophie, von der Metaphysik bis zur Ästhetik, hatte sie originelle...
Mein Thema ist, dass Kant in der deutschen intellektuellen Landschaft dem aufklärerischen Denken so nahe steht, wie es nur geht. Aus der Perspektive der meisten
It looks as though Dreamworks could not have come up with a better slogan for its final Shrek movie: After
You walk into a bar and see the same drunk who’s there every night lying on the floor in a pool of his reeking fluids. He raises his head...
This is not mere rhetoric. It describes a crack in the American community that since Barack Obama’s election as president has widened into..
Die politischen Gegner von Rand Paul brauchten nicht lange, um ihre Dolche zu wetzen. Weniger als 24 Stunden nach seinem Sieg im Senat von Kentucky
The Obama administration is launching a rabble-rousing assault on big banks. Thus we see on display in Washington another example of how...
The earthquake in Haiti that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and inflicted untold misery on the inhabitants of that country has
The first was the “Green Police” advertisement for Audi that was broadcast during this year’s Super Bowl. It starts with a clerk asking a...
Israel is involved in another public relations mess. But even a superficial look at the incident at sea off Gaza shows that the real mess..
A scramble by Democrats on Capitol Hill to prevent a particular vote on a particular bill highlights for us two of the most pernicious...
May 13, 2010 -- I do not often agree with Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson, especially when he pontificates about the nature of
Eines Tages ging ich hier in Washington, D.C., zurück ins Büro, als mich eine junge Frau an einer Straßenecke ansprach. "Haben Sie eine Minute Zeit für die
Ayn Rand hat ihre Philosophie in ihren Romanen We the Living, Anthem, The Fountainhead und Atlas Shrugged in die Tat umgesetzt.
Während der meisten Zeit, in der der Mensch auf der Erde lebt, war das Universum alles andere als wohlwollend. Hungersnöte, Überschwemmungen und Erdbeben haben ganze
I would say that, over the last twenty-five years, the biggest triumph of the Enlightenment view is that people have grasped the concept...
Als "prinzipientreu" gilt gemeinhin jemand, der an seinen moralischen Idealen festhält und "Zweckmäßigkeit" und Kompromisse scheut. Objektivismus....
Like any story relying on the fantastic, the superhero film has a test: does the fantastic sharpen and enhance the theme and the conflicts
Many Americans—and even more Europeans—employ a pre-modern ideal when judging the market economy. According to this ideal, individuals enter
