Wednesday
October 29, 2003 |
 You Might be a Fascist
by Russell Madden
Many of the beliefs common to citizens today are actually examples of a fascist politico-economic system. (Read more...)
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 Perfection in Life
by Elizabeth Kanabe
Perfection – it's something that we all strive for. (Read more...)
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 SOLO Proudly Announces ...
by Lindsay Perigo
In SOLO's Credo I wrote that SOLO was not afraid to acknowledge that Ayn Rand was wrong about some things, and that homosexuality was one of them. I made it clear to anyone who cared to listen at the time that one of SOLO's first projects would be to exorcise the shocking homophobia that has disgraced the Objectivist movement since Day One - to expose it to the lights of day and reason, show it to be the grotesquery that it is and fiercely proclaim how alien it is to a philosophy that sets such store by the identification of reality. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
November 12, 2003 |
 Creeping Collectivism: Insufficient refutation of public safety laws
by Scott D. DeSalvo
It seems that politicians of all levels and stripes are running for public office on platforms that include promises of more regulation, and more government infringement upon private lives and private decisions. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
November 26, 2003 |
Ask IOP: Mixed Economy
by Jeff Landauer
What are some advantages of a mixed economy? (Read more...)
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 Ayn Rand, Objectivism, and Religion (Part 1 of 4)
by Neil Parille
A 4-part paper that discusses Ayn Rand's view of religion. (Read more...)
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Conservatives and the Fallacy of Majority Rule
by Jerry Bordelon
There is a war being waged against individual freedom today on a very strong front. However I'm not going to talk about the attack by the liberals in this article. Today I will focus on the increasing attacks on the individual by the conservatives. (Read more...)
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Ayn Rand, Objectivism, and Religion (Part 2 of 4)
by Neil Parille
The rest of the "ATHEISM, RELIGION, AND MYSTICISM" section. (Read more...)
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Ayn Rand, Objectivism, and Religion (Part 3 of 4)
by Neil Parille
"RELIGION AND ITS ROLE IN HISTORY" and the first part of "WHAT IS WRONG WITH RELIGION?" (Read more...)
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Ayn Rand, Objectivism, and Religion (Part 4 of 4)
by Neil Parille
"RELIGION AND ITS ROLE IN HISTORY" continued, "CONCLUSION", and "REFERENCES". (Read more...)
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Abortion: Reconsidering Personal Responsibility and Political Responsibility
by Francois Tremblay
The issue of abortion is a "hot button" issue. The masses see it as a war between "family values" and personal choice, between murder, female emancipation, convenience, amidst complaints that "they should just use condoms!".
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Iran Earthquake - God Dunnit
by David Bertelsen
Strike up a few more lives to the death toll reaped by religion this century. (Read more...)
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 Bogeyman Be Gone: Reflections on Nyctophobia and Child-Rearing
by Barry Kayton
Imagine you're six years old. Imagine it's late at night. (Read more...)
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Organo-centrism as Racism
by Francois Tremblay
Around the middle of the movie "AI: Artificial Intelligence", there is a scene that takes place at the "Flesh Fair" arena, where androids are destroyed in violent ways, cheered on by a crowd of hate-filled rednecks. Even if you are organo-centric, it would be hard not to be moved by this scene. And the analogy between that and the Coliseum, between AI slavery and human slavery, is obvious. (Read more...)
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A Petition of the Software Merchants
by Adam Reed
On January 8, 2004, Darl McBride, president and CEO of the SCO Group, Inc., sent to US Senators and members of the House of Representatives a letter urging them to restrict, by law, the development of open source software. (Read more...)
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Democracy: Who Needs It?
by Paul Hibbert
Democracy is coercive by its very nature but by dint of the maturation of capitalism to its present form it allows another means of constructing a society — one created by capitalists, devoid of coercion.
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 Experiencing Objectivism through the Enhanced Tri-Quation
by Luke Setzer
This article ties together previously established integrative concepts between Objectivism and Franklin Covey training tools to produce a powerful diagram called the Objectivist Tri-Quation. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
September 1, 2004 |
Machan's Musings - The Nonsense of "Social Wealth"
by Tibor R. Machan
Although it is often the case that human actions and institutions significantly rearrange the world, there is, in fact, an arrangement that’s natural prior to this (history of) rearrangement. It’s a bit like all that body surgery that goes on in Hollywood and elsewhere — the significantly rearranged faces, breasts, lips, and such had, at one time, a non-artificial or "natural" configuration, for good or for ill. (Read more...)
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Deja Vu
by Adam Reed
Barbara Branden wrote, "By the fall of 1940," Ayn Rand "had only seven hundred dollars left. It was under these circumstances that she took three months off from writing, using the last of her savings, to work for the election of Wendell Willkie." In 1940 Ayn Rand was 35. I am 58 in 2004, and ought to be wiser. (Read more...)
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 The Three Stooges Meet Bissell
by Fred Seddon
When I talked with Roger Bissell at the Advanced Seminar this year, I promised him I would read and comment on his JAWS [I presume you mean JARS, Fred? Perhaps you had JARS' loquacious editor, Dr. Diabolical Dialectical in mind when you said JAWS? - Linz :-)] article “Art As Microcosm.” The comments that follow pertain to his attempt to argue that, despite appearances (and Rand’s words in places) to the contrary, music fits Rand’s general “definition of art."
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Machan's Musings - Topsy-turvy Anyone?
by Tibor R. Machan
Perhaps it is important to take a different measure of the premier institutions from what convention would have us do. Say, a ranking of universities in US News & World Report may well have to be looked at almost topsy-turvy rather than at face value. (Read more...)
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"Capitalism" - Is it time for a change?
by Marcus Bachler
Capitalism can be made the scapegoat of whatever it is that they happen to hate about the economy at the time. It can stand for corporate corruption and greed, unfair trade with third world nations, excessive profits or the exploitation of workers. Capitalism has become a general smoke-screen for the criticism of avarice and the ultimate in left-wing “woolly” thinking. Is it time for a change? (Read more...)
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 All These Pesky Decisions...
by James Kilbourne
The following is a little glimpse into the Kerry campaign that I penned on July 2nd to help people see the real make-up of the man who would like to be our 44th President. (Read more...)
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Thursday
September 30, 2004 |
Keeping It Real
by Alec Mouhibian
It started with the Botox. (Read more...)
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To Torture or Not to Torture?
by Jonathan R
We know that a large-scale terrorist attack is imminent. We probably know the general location, we probably know that it will happen in the next twenty-four or forty-eight hours, and we are eighty or ninety percent certain that the person we have apprehended knows what, where and when.[1] To torture or not to torture? (Read more...)
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