 The Iraq Debate: Principles vs. Rules
by Joseph Rowlands
The war on Iraq has pitted Objectivists vs. Objectivists in the intellectual battlefield. (Read more...)
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 What the Hell Has Happened to the Radical Spirit of Objectivism?
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
For the past few months, debates over the war in Iraq have raged among Objectivists. (Read more...)
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 Politicizing the Courts
by Tibor R. Machan
The idea is that the country was founded and continues to be organized on the basis of certain basic principles of justice that its constitution embodies. (Read more...)
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 Libertarianism in Cartoons: Courage, the Cowardly Dog
by Barry Fuller
In the arena of television, libertarians have little to view. (Read more...)
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 Thinking Outside of the Euclidean Box
by Brett Holverstott
"Let no one come to our school, who has not first learned the Elements." (Read more...)
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 Virtuous Living (7 of 13): Productiveness
by Joseph Rowlands
Let's turn now to the virtue of Productiveness. Ayn Rand defined it as "the recognition of the fact that productive work is the process by which man's mind sustains his life". Notice again the term "recognition". (Read more...)
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Poseurs & Prohibitionists
by Lindsay Perigo
Did ever a bunch of fraudsters & totalitarians so richly deserve each other? (Read more...)
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Treated Like Children
by Tibor R. Machan
Safety, when it is mindless, tends to be short-lived. (Read more...)
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Michael Newberry Frames
by Barry Kayton
Newberry Miniature Frames are here! (Read more...)
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Government and Anarchy: Some Preliminary Observations
by Russell Madden
A perennial source of tension and discussion in libertarian circles is the question of whether freedom would better be defended by anarchy or by a truly limited government. (Read more...)
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Virtuous Living (6 of 13): Rationality as an Active Virtue
by Joseph Rowlands
So what does the Active form of rationality involve? (Read more...)
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 Saddam’s Succours, Part 2
by Lindsay Perigo
"I don't want food. I don't want water. I want my freedom." (Read more...)
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Can Industry Block Regulation?
by Tibor R. Machan
Well, in my book this last is all that would be necessary in a society in which adults are treated as, well, adults, not as babies. (Read more...)
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Impressions Re: Bowling For Columbine
by Scott D. DeSalvo
Last week I had the opportunity to see Michael Moore's excellent 'Bowling for Columbine,' a film that struck me in its marketing as being essentially an anti-gun movie. As a Second Amendment advocate and generally an advocate of freedom for law-abiding citizens, I was prepared to have an overwhelmingly negative reaction to the movie. With a negative preconception and box of popcorn in hand, I entered the theatre. (Read more...)
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 Foreign Policy
by Joseph Rowlands
A rational foreign policy must ultimately be based on an individualist ethics. (Read more...)
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Saddam's Succours
by Lindsay Perigo
My words about them are few because few words are necessary. Two of Lenin's come to mind also -- "useful idiots." (Read more...)
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Virtuous Living (5 of 13): Rationality
by Joseph Rowlands
The first virtue I'll talk about is rationality. In The Objectivist Ethics, Rand defined rationality as "the recognition and acceptance of reason as one's only source of knowledge, one's only judge of values and one's only guide to action". (Read more...)
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Terrorism and Provocation
by Tibor R. Machan
Provocation is not any kind of excuse to be either violent toward or intimate with someone. (Read more...)
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 Kim #4
by Scott D. DeSalvo
A poem. (Read more...)
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Intellectual Property
by Duncan Bayne
The concept of 'intellectual property' is the source of much debate nowadays. (Read more...)
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End Double Taxation!
by Logan Darrow
If you aren't willing to spend 3 minutes of your time how on earth will we ever achieve laissez-faire capitalism? (Read more...)
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Virtuous Living (4 of 13): Life as a Process
by Joseph Rowlands
One's view of life can alter the way you conceive of virtues. The static view of life, which focuses on the state of your life, is very value oriented. It looks at achieving values, and not with the means by which you achieved them. In many ways, it is a tunnel-vision view of life, only looking at particular aspects of the life. (Read more...)
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Safe at Any Speed
by Tibor R. Machan
Doesn't anyone remember Ralph Nader's first bestseller, Unsafe at Any Speed? (Read more...)
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Kim #3
by Scott D. DeSalvo
A poem. (Read more...)
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Virtuous Living (3 of 13): Active vs. Passive Virtues
by Joseph Rowlands
There are two different approaches to understanding virtues, and we have the tools now to see what they are. I differentiate the two by calling one Passive Virtues and calling the other Active Virtues. (Read more...)
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