 How Immigration Restrictions Violate the Rights of Citizens
by Adam Reed
It is the natural human right of each individual citizen to deal with all other people, including non-citizens of his choice, as he will, provided only that these dealings respect the individual rights of all persons. It is not possible for governments to restrict the immigration of non-criminal persons without, in the process of doing so, carrying out obscene violations of the rights of their own citizens. (Read more...)
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 Aviation: The Conquest of the Skies by the Mind
by Scott Wilson
Few things are more inspirational to me than aviation - it is one of the greatest conquests of man's mind over his environment, it is the destruction of the limitations of man's anatomy in one dimension. (Read more...)
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 George W. Bush: Unintended Presidential Paragon?
by Scott D. DeSalvo
Scott pays tribute to our 43rd president. (Read more...)
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Martha Stewart versus the State
by Tibor R. Machan
Did Martha Stewart do anything morally or ethically wrong? (Read more...)
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 The Ministry of Wimmin's Affairs - Time to Go?
by Judith Collins
The NZ Ministry of Women's Affairs. Not as good as it sounds. (Read more...)
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The Nicotine-Nazis Are Coming
by Anton Kelly
Smokers get abused again. Anton Kelly objects. (Read more...)
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Passion, Principles and Party Poopers - Musings on the Knowledge Wave Conference
by Tim Sturm
A future leader gives the low-down on the "Knowledge Wave Conference". (Read more...)
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 An Objectivist Condemnation of Abortion
by G. Stolyarov II
A dissenting opinion on abortion, in which the author argues the incompatibility of Rand's stance on abortion with the fundamentals of her philosophy. (Read more...)
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 Second thoughts
by Tibor R. Machan
It's important to challenge one's most deeply held beliefs. (Read more...)
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An Objectivist Tale of Two Lovers
by Paul M. Kay
A tale of attitudes regarding sex. (Read more...)
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Legal Counterfeiting
by Russell Madden
The government is concerned with counterfeit currency when the real issue is the counterfeit freedom they have been peddling to us for decades. (Read more...)
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After the Iraq War
by Adam Reed
Enough time has elapsed from the recent US-British-Polish war on Saddam's Iraq to consider post-war evidence and current US policy. (Read more...)
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Double Shot
by Ashley Frazier
A tale of Starbucks and rights to the extreme. (Read more...)
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Addressing the Arguments of a Mayor
by Tibor R. Machan
The Mayor of Ft. Collins, CO, published a letter on his web site in response to a student who protested smoking ordinances and quoted me to indicate the problem with such laws. (Read more...)
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"Is Libertarianism Evil?" Revisited
by Scott D. DeSalvo
Scott takes exception to some of Joe's conclusions in his recent article. (Read more...)
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Is Libertarianism Evil?
by Joseph Rowlands
How does one learn the concept of freedom? Joseph Rowlands explains that there are many roads you can follow. (Read more...)
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 Hoedown in Paper Space
by Michael Newberry
In the last year I have been exploring the medium of pencil line drawings. Instead of showing only my drawings I thought it might be interesting if I showed you a few of my influences from art history, which will give you something to compare them with. This includes some artists, such as Picasso, Kline, Lichtenstein, which might surprise you. (Read more...)
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Look Who's Filming "Atlas Shrugged"
by Adam Reed
Ayn Rand saw human civilization perishing in an orgy of self-sacrifice, and wrote Atlas Shrugged to stop it - by taking morality away from the Christians, whose mythology was the source of the universal orgy of self-sacrifice that Rand meant to stop. (Read more...)
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Basketball Diary: The Will To Win!
by Kristin Currier
It was game 5 out of the best of seven, and if the Dallas Mavericks lost this one, they'd be out of the series for good. (Read more...)
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Virtuous Living (13 of 13): Conclusion
by Joseph Rowlands
That's the major Objectivist virtues. In each of these cases we can see the moral principle that defines the virtue, and we can see that it can be interpreted in a couple of ways. (Read more...)
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Terrorism, Government and Security
by Tibor R. Machan
In light of the very real threat of more terrorism to come, targeting Western type institutions around the globe, there is a great deal of temptation to simply abandon various principles of the rule of law, especially due process, in the name of an effective response. (Read more...)
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A Timeless Tale
by Lindsay Perigo
Today a tale of two men, vastly different in nature & stature, separated by two hundred years, but both to their own selves true. (Read more...)
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The Glory of the Rice Cooker
by Jeff Landauer
Going out to a nice restaurant every once in a while for a great meal is definitely part of living the good life. But for every day calorie consumption there is little to rival the glory of a rice cooker. (Read more...)
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SOLOC 2 Conference Summary
by Joseph Rowlands
Testimonials, pictures, speakers list, etc. (Read more...)
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Virtuous Living (12 of 13): Honesty
by Joseph Rowlands
The last virtue I want to talk about is that of Honesty. Rand described Honesty as "the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value". (Read more...)
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