Michael Brown gets right to it: If it is proper to act under the maxim that a saved life makes an act justified -- no matter the collateral damage of that act -- then there are quite a lot of very simple things that would need to be done right away.
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[From our archives. I wrote this piece a few months after I starting going out with my Talia. Best move of my life! We're now happily married with two beautiful two-year-old little girls. Happy Valentine's Day my Talia!]
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The O-web has been as conspicuously silent about this as Obama and his admirers in the media, but it deserves an even wider audience than it already has. In answer to the inevitable cries of mysticism and so forth, I say: why didn't some Objectivist do this a long time ago?
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Rumble in Austin this Friday evening. Auditorium and livestream tickets still available! Thanks to the Objectivist Standard for making this epic event possible.
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Argentina announced a two-month price freeze on supermarket products Monday in an effort to break spiraling inflation. The price freeze applies to every product in all of the nation's largest supermarkets a group including Walmart, Carrefour, Coto, Jumbo, Disco and other large chains. The government announced the pr...(Read more...)
Can you get an MBA education, or something very much like one, without piling on debt? Dale Stephens, author of Hacking Your Education (Perigee Trade, March 2013), thinks you can. The founder of Uncollege.org, a site designed to help people create their own education without setting foot inside a classroom, Stephens st...(Read more...)
Happy Birthday, Ayn Rand! Posted by Ed Hudgins on 2/02, 10:24am
Happy Birthday, Ayn Rand! Ayn Rand was born on February 2, 1905, in Russia. As a young woman she came to the United States to escape the horrors of the Communist revolution. In America she made her own revolution through novels like The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Rand developed the philosophy of Obj...(Read more...)
The 10 Year treasury interest rate increased to 2.04 percent (from 1.43 percent in July 2012) in order to attract enough buyers. Who knows how much higher the rate would be in the short term if the Federal Reserve wasn't buying $45 billion of treasuries per month? Increasing rates will bring even more pressure to sel...(Read more...)
