An important new book on Ayn Rand’s political philosophy will be published in March. Foundations of a Free Society: Reflections on Ayn Rand’s Political Philosophy, edited by Gregory Salmieri and Robert Mayhew, is an in. . .
Keith LockitchSilicon Valley Visionaries vs. Yuval Harari’s Dystopia
A recent article in the New York Times poses the question: Why do the digital elite adore a thinker who argues that Silicon Valley is “an engine of dystopian ruin”? That thinker is Yuval Noah Harari, the Israeli. . .
Ben BayerTrivializing the Islamist Menace
How we understand the “terrorist threat” is critical to defining a sound policy for addressing the problem. Yet there’s something deeply, dangerously wrong in the way many of us think of the threat. That’s manifest not. . .
Elan Journo
Tom BowdenWhat Is “Americanism”? Neither the Right nor the Left Gets It
What is “Americanism”? Can you pin down what it means? Are you sure? Even as many of us use it, along with “American exceptionalism,” as a positive term, there’s astonishingly little. . .
Jonathan Hoenig
Gravitational Waves: A New Window on the Universe (Part 2)
Part 1 of this article explored the historical background of efforts to detect gravitational waves, including Einstein’s development of his General Theory of Relativity and some of its implications. Evidence for. . .
Gravitational Waves: A New Window on the Universe (Part 1)
For almost all of human history, our knowledge of the universe came from gazing up at the sky with unaided eyes. That got us pretty far: Ancient astronomers mapped the constellations and tracked the motions of the. . .
What Defenders of Liberty Need to Know
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of libertarian student organizations both in the US and around the world. Many of the students involved in those organizations are interested in Ayn Rand, and it’s for this. . .
Onkar Ghate
Gregory Salmieri
Agustina Vergara CidThe Betrayal of Charlie Hebdo
Four years ago — on January 7, 2015 — jihadists burst into the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo and shot to death members of the magazine’s staff. Immediately after the massacre, countless people took to the streets. . .
