One of the crucial functions of a society’s intellectual leadership is to articulate the meaning of important cultural events, to guide the public in understanding their significance. The 50th anniversary of man’s first. . .
Keith LockitchAn Individualist Perspective on the Middle East
In three recent interviews, I examined the importance of adopting an individualist, rather than tribal or collectivized, perspective in evaluating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and understanding the Middle East. But. . .
Elan JournoAmerica Was Founded on Secular Ideals
If we project current troubling trends into the future — trends such as the splintering of American society into warring tribes based on race, sex, age, place of birth and other accidental factors, plus the emergence of. . .
Tom Bowden
Previously Unpublished Letters of Ayn Rand Now Online
What was Ayn Rand really like? Leonard Peikoff, her longtime student and friend, has said that he would often tell people: “Read her novels; she was everything their creator would have to be.” But with the 1995. . .
New Book Challenges Fears of Overpopulation, Climate Change
Occasionally we write about what we’re currently reading, watching or listening to — not at the level of a full review, but simply to point out arguments, perspectives and issues worth considering. This is one of those. . .
Why Champions of Science and Reason Need Free Will
The “new atheists” and the “intellectual dark web” are two of the most interesting circles of thinkers to have emerged in the last fifteen years. In the overlap between the two circles, there is a small cadre of. . .
Ben BayerWhy Students Protested Event Analyzing Islamism
When I headed to the University of Rochester to take part in a panel discussion, I had no inkling of the campaign that some students had already launched to shut the event down. The reasons behind their opposition were. . .
The False Promise of Stoicism
Over the past decade, the ancient Greek philosophy of Stoicism has seen renewed public attention. Recent popular books are selling Stoicism as a guide to self-mastery, psychological resilience, inner tranquility and. . .
Aaron Smith