 Redevelopment, Democracy and Property Rights
by Tibor R. Machan
We have in and around the community where I live, just as do millions of others throughout the country and, indeed, the world, many public projects beloved by large numbers of people, often even the majority. These are often called "redevelopments" and are unabashedly destructive of the institution of private property rights by deploying, quite brazenly and arbitrarily, the eminent domain powers of government so as to take property from some and lease it to others who would "improve" it. Usually, the improvements involve some prettying up of strips of roadside or altogether reconstituting a business neighborhood so it looks presentable to those who drive by or stop there to trade. (Read more...)
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 Solo Philadelphia
by Elizabeth Kanabe
Announcing SOLO Conference 3: Philadelphia. October 3-5, 2003. (Read more...)
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 Understanding the Global Crisis: Reclaiming Rand’s Radical Legacy
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
"The tree of liberty," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." And so, when I saw those startling images of a liberated Iraq-those first photos of fellow New Yorker, Major David "Bull" Guerfin of the U.S. Marines, ripping down the poster of Saddam Hussein in Safwan or that riveting footage of fellow Brooklynite, Marine Cpl. Edward Chin, helping jubilant Iraqis in Baghdad's Firdos Square to topple Hussein's 20-foot statue-it seemed to me that Jefferson's remark was as true as ever. (Read more...)
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 Gateways to Hidden Worlds
by Russell Madden
Repairman Jack Confronts the Entropic 'Other' (Book Review) (Read more...)
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 Virtuous Living (11 of 13): Independence
by Joseph Rowlands
The moral principle here is that your life is your own, and you're the only one that can live it. It means that you need to act directly, and not attempt to get or let other people do your living for you. It's the recognition that life is purposeful action, but it needs to be your purpose and your action, or it's not really living. (Read more...)
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 Titanic Trio
by Lindsay Perigo
One memorable night, not so long ago, I imbibed some high-octane emotional fuel, sitting down with like-minded people to watch television documentaries on three giants, each a genius in his own field - author/philosopher Ayn Rand, singer Mario Lanza & architect Frank Lloyd Wright. (Read more...)
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Keeping Your Head
by Sam Pierson
The mind is the invisible sweetspot of our lives. Whatever is happening in there, and whatever its way of happening, is what shapes our estimation of ourselves, and of life. And that shapes who, how and what we go after. (Read more...)
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 My Own Libretto
by Alicia Patti
A poem. (Read more...)
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Wrong Take on Basic Human Rights
by Tibor R. Machan
Academia's notion of "rights". (Read more...)
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Virtuous Living (10 of 13): Pride
by Joseph Rowlands
The moral principle here is that you need to want to live. You need to make your life the ultimate value, and to appreciate it as such. (Read more...)
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 Spreading Objectivism: Tips on Getting Published in Popular Media
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
I've always believed that Objectivist writers should work toward publishing in more and more popular venues. (Read more...)
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 Praise for the Country’s "Safety Net"
by Craig Drayton
Craig sounds off on "Modern Art". (Read more...)
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Thinking on Your Feet
by Barry Kayton
Barry Kayton gives us yet another lesson on how to destroy our enemies! (Read more...)
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One Year of SoloHQ
by Jeff Landauer
And SoloHQ keeps rolling on! (Read more...)
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Virtuous Living (9 of 13): Integrity
by Joseph Rowlands
The moral principle here is that you also are a part of reality, and have an identity. (Read more...)
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An Extraordinary Life Continued
by Ashley Frazier
When I was a child, some very ugly and painful things happened in my life. You sometimes hear a statement like that preface the story of some criminal or social deviant who wants you to excuse the behavior that followed their childhood. Well, don't worry. Not in this case. (Read more...)
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So what is it With Liberty?
by Tibor R. Machan
Las Vegas, Nevada. At the annual meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education this year, there were about 200 participants and several dozens of meetings, come concurrent, some plenary, but the main question that kept coming up everywhere was roughly the same: Why is it so difficult to get people to realize that individual liberty is all around far better than government regimentation; (Read more...)
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Permanent Revolution: An Objectivist Nightmare
by Ian Cappelletti
Leon Trotsky, born in 1879 to a rural Jewish family in the Ukraine, assumed a destiny saturated in political turmoil once he discovered Marxism at a young age. (Read more...)
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The Age of Crap
by Lindsay Perigo
(Speech delivered to FSB Financial Services seminar, "Keeping in Touch," November 12, 2002.) (Read more...)
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Virtuous Living (8 of 13): Justice
by Joseph Rowlands
Ayn Rand defines Justice as "the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature". The moral principle here is that men are a part of reality, and we must identify their nature just as we must identify any aspect of reality, and act accordingly. (Read more...)
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A Free Iraq - If you can keep it
by Peter Cresswell
Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains." Not true. Not everywhere. Not in Baghdad - not any longer. (Read more...)
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Humor Against the State
by Russell Madden
Humor is a tricky proposition. (Read more...)
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America Alone?
by Tibor R. Machan
It would not be the first time. Certainly, philosophically America has been nearly alone all its history (Read more...)
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Twelve Worthy Cylinders
by Sam Pierson
No self-respecting person builds statues unto themselves. (Read more...)
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A First Political Victory
by Adam Reed
The first significant exception -- and the first electoral victory for a political party that campaigned simultaneously against the socialist welfare state and against religious coercion, for freedom of science and freedom of production and trade -- took place in the February election in Israel. (Read more...)
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