“I’m really looking forward to hearing a speech by someone who is involved in innovation, knows America’s place in the world market and has
If socialism were a respectable affiliation, Progressives would probably call themselves “democratic socialists.”But socialism died as a....
In 1917, Bolsheviks under Lenin seized control of Russia in the famous October revolution, ending a short-lived experiment with .....
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that investigates the basic nature of knowledge, including its sources and validation...
Before philosophy for tens of thousands of years, human beings did not see the world as we see it. Why did the Nile rise and flood the field
The Gulf Spill Once again, journalists are speculating about the possibility of bringing criminal charges against BP CEO Tony Hayward...
As readers of this Journal know, over the past few months the Institute has been fighting socialized medicine, sponsoring a lecture series..
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
For as long as there has been an Objectivist movement, its ranks have periodically been thinned by schisms and excommunications, power...
The following is Chapter 5 from the book The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand: Truth and Toleration in Objectivism, by David Kelley.
I concur in the conclusion of the Scholars Commission: the allegation that Thomas Jefferson fathered one or more children by his slave....
I’m never impressed by those studies that come out every so often showing that some large percentage of the American citizenry “does not
When forced to assume [self-government], we were novices in its science. Its principles and forms had entered little into our....
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....
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...
In The Structure of Liberty, Randy Barnett takes on a complex and ambitious project. His main goal is to provide a systematic argument
My theme is that, on the German intellectual landscape, Kant is as close to Enlightenment thinking as it gets. From the perspective of most
The Objectivist morality, Ayn Rand said, is based on the choice to live. A perennial question in Objectivism is whether....
In 2003, the Supreme Court declared that people challenging the constitutionality of an economic regulation must "negative every conceivable
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