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ayn rand Rebirth of ReasonTM is an organization dedicated to the philosophy of Objectivism, a philosophy devoted to living on earth. The philosophy was developed by Ayn Rand, a novelist-philosopher in the 20th century.

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The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom. - Ayn Rand
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Friday
January 20, 2012
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Cuba Awakes?
by Tibor R. Machan
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Cuba’s fate over the last half a century has been disastrous, although before that the island wasn’t a Caribbean paradise either. US government policies haven’t made it easier for Cubans to escape their misery since instead of opening up the routes of free trade, the US has mostly chosen to issue penalties against the country, never mind that Cuba has done little against the USA per se to deserve most of it. (Read more...)
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Consuming Pleasures: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera
Consuming Pleasures: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera by Jennifer Hayward

Dickens pioneered serialization and responded to public demand.  Not our favorite writer, he nonetheless is to be lauded as a capitalist among authors. ... (See the whole review)

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Atheists may have many other virtues, but on one of the least controversial and most objective measures of moral behavior—giving time, money, and blood to help strangers in need—religious people appear to be morally superior to secular folk.
Jonathan Haidt
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/haidt07/haidt07_index.html

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Biological Altruism
(60) robert malcom - 1/26, 2:22am - Humans act, animals re-act... that is the difference...
(61) Jules Troy - 1/26, 3:17am - Humans also have the capacity to act in ways that are detrim...
Why so many Chiefs of Staff?
(1) Kyle Jacob Biodrowski - 1/26, 7:43pm - Edward Cline, in his article "Obama's Emerging Enabling Act,...
(2) Jules Troy - 1/26, 7:58pm - Perhaps his chiefs of staff were doing their jobs tooo well ...
(3) Kyle Jacob Biodrowski - 1/26, 8:51pm - Hmm, I'm going to list the proposed reasons as to why Obama ...
(4) Steve Wolfer - 1/26, 8:52pm - Often staff turn-over is due to strife. People don't get al...
Objectivism Q&A
Philosophy of Time Needed for Objectivist Causation?
(71) Stephen Boydstun - 1/26, 5:02am - The following paper is supplementary to #16. It has just...
Article Discussions
Thirty Great Crapolae Of Our Time
(22) Jules Troy - 1/25, 6:45pm - I agree. With pretttty much all of this except for the cater...
(23) Joe Maurone - 1/25, 6:48pm - "He sings this song with such deep passion and such heartach...
Death and the Meaning of Life
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (13) Jules Troy - 1/26, 12:39am - I'm 42, when I was 33 I had a 100% block left circumflex art...
3 Sanctions3 Sanctions3 Sanctions (14) Fred Bartlett - 1/26, 2:43pm - Jules: When we are young and invincible, we are convi...
(15) Mike Erickson - 1/27, 9:03am - It can be a long ride if you take care of yourselves: ...
Advice for Those Considering NCSSM
(44) Luke Setzer - 1/26, 2:27am - We had a very interesting discussion on the Facebook NCSSM A...
(45) Hong Zhang - 1/27, 12:06pm - Luke, You think scholarship committees won't be able ...
(46) Luke Setzer - 1/27, 2:34pm - Hong, I do not know if you actually read the link or not. I...
Books
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
(2) Kyle Jacob Biodrowski - 1/25, 8:04pm - You guys are silly, it wasn't Capitalism that brought forth ...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (3) Jules Troy - 1/25, 8:29pm - Kyle you are a socialist idiot. What brought on the rapid...
3 Sanctions3 Sanctions3 Sanctions (4) Steve Wolfer - 1/25, 11:20pm - ...just imagine if we could control these amazing advancemen...
(5) Jules Troy - 1/26, 12:43am - Steve that brought my huge sanction button out very well sai...
(6) Steve Wolfer - 1/26, 2:43am - Thanks, Jules.
(7) Michael E. Marotta - 1/26, 4:56am - I will get the book from my branch library this afternoon.  ...
(8) Steve Wolfer - 1/26, 11:08am - Thank you, Michael.
(9) Ed Thompson - 1/26, 3:33pm - Mike, Are you telling me that you are in possession o...
(10) robert malcom - 1/26, 5:29pm - Aladdin was selling them... ;-)
(11) Jules Troy - 1/26, 6:38pm - Rub itttttttt!
(12) Michael E. Marotta - 1/26, 9:06pm - Ed, yes, 2500 to 2000 years old, give or take, one archaic G...
(13) Jules Troy - 1/26, 9:22pm - That is extremely fascinating Michael. I have some canadi...
(14) Kyle Jacob Biodrowski - 1/26, 9:22pm - Perhaps I should explain that my post, post 2, was a joke. I...
(15) Jules Troy - 1/26, 9:49pm - Its all good kyle, based on your post I should not have call...
(16) Ed Thompson - 1/27, 6:39am - Kyle, I figured you were joking. If you are not sure ...
Quotes
Atheists may have many other virtues, but on one of the leas...
(7) Kyle Jacob Biodrowski - 1/25, 7:42pm - Ed, how dare you accuse Michael of using such an under-hande...
(8) Jules Troy - 1/25, 8:18pm - I don't see anything in eds observations as being malicious ...
(9) Michael E. Marotta - 1/26, 3:42am - Ed, you are imaging an argument where none exists.  I was ag...
(10) Ed Thompson - 1/26, 6:13am - Kyle, You are funny! When I first saw your pen name, ...
(11) Jules Troy - 1/26, 6:26am - Cool I just gave a celeb the finger! Lol lol lol
(12) Ed Thompson - 1/26, 7:29am - Hey Kean ... er ... well ... I mean ... uh ... Hey K-y-l-e, ...
(13) Ed Thompson - 1/26, 7:38am - Hey "Kyle", I have just one more question for you, an...
(14) Jules Troy - 1/26, 7:49am - I loved constantine! Especially when you gave satan the ole ...
(15) Kyle Jacob Biodrowski - 1/26, 11:30am - Finally, someone recognizes me, and by a profile picture no ...
(16) Ed Thompson - 1/26, 3:19pm - For perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwIXh...
(17) Jules Troy - 1/26, 5:50pm - I do agree with your assessment as well kyle but what's not ...
Dissent
On Ayn Rand on Racism
(123) Brad Trun - 1/26, 1:41pm - Race Denier Prescribes Early Death for Black Heart Patients ...


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Monday
September 15, 2008
Commentary
The Unseen Violation
by Joseph Rowlands
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In Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson, he focuses on the different effects that are caused by particular economic policies.  Specifically, he shows that some actions are very visible and people tend to look only at those.  There's a second class of effects that are unseen.  (Read more...)
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