Human progress requires good ideas. Consider how just two fundamental ideas have ushered in the modern world. Rewind a scant six hundred years, and modern science doesn’t yet exist. Men and women live and die in squalor. . .
Onkar Ghate
Yaron BrookPresidential Candidates — and Trump — Are Wrong About Iraq
On the 2020 campaign trail, opposition toward the Iraq war has become a litmus test of moral stature. Witness Elizabeth Warren (who “never believed what Cheney and Bush said about Iraq”) signaling her virtue and shaming. . .
Elan JournoA New Ideal for Latin America
I was born and raised in Argentina. Something that always stood out to me as a child was the constant talk of my country’s “economic and social crisis.” Massive unemployment and high poverty levels, skyrocketing. . .
Agustina Vergara Cid
Ayn Rand on the Moral Foundations of the Berlin Wall
When the Berlin Wall was erected in August 1961, to stop the flood of refugees from communist East Germany into capitalist West Germany, Ayn Rand was well positioned to state its true meaning to the world. A native of. . .
Tom Bowden
An Interview with Free-Speech Advocate Jacob Mchangama
In 2005, editors at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten were concerned about a seeming climate of self-censorship on the subject of Islam. To assess the extent of that climate, they commissioned and published cartoons. . .
The Power of We the Living, Ayn Rand’s First, Least Known Novel
“Petrograd smelt of carbolic acid.” The reek of that powerful disinfectant — used to abate the spread of lice-borne diseases — hints at the squalor that defines Petrograd. The city, in the years after the Communist. . .
Understanding Ayn Rand’s Rejection of Faith
Even among the non-religious, deep religious faith is often portrayed as a strength and a source of comfort. But there’s at least one atheist who had a diametrically opposite view of the value of religious faith. Ayn. . .
Ben Bayer
In Defense of Selfishness Challenges the Altruist Morality
In the interest of securing a wider readership for In Defense of Selfishness: Why the Moral Code of Self-Sacrifice Is Unjust and Destructive, by Peter Schwartz, we are reprinting the book’s introduction below. Schwartz. . .
