Leonard Peikoff's masterwork of non-fiction, The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America, has come to life under Trump. Published way back in 1982 (!) yet no one knows of it. It seems I cannot publish excerpts from Harry Binswanger's Lette…
A new philosophy of progress for the 21st century by Jason Crawford · July 8, 2024 Humans are a curious species: We have a need not only to do, but to explain what we are doing—to each other and ab…
by Harry Binswanger Unchosen servile duties are unbefitting of the morality of a free people. On June 19, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed a bill that would mandate display of the Ten Commandments in every public classroom in the state.…
Opinion by Samuel Gregg An economic specter haunts America. It’s also one that many American politicians – Republican and Democrat – say a great deal about but are reluctant to address. The name of that shadow is …
by James Bovard Originally found on: CounterPunch Link to Whole Article: The Never Ending Federal Surveillance Crime Spree Excerpts: Last December, one of the most intrusive provisions in the federal statute book was set to expire. Section 702…
by Edwin A. Locke The Palestinian Choice There will be no peace in the Middle East unless secular freedom rather than theocratic despotism becomes the Palestinians’ guiding philosophy. Much of the world is pressur…
by Brian Phillips Say NO to a Global Tax on Billionaires A growing movement is underway to impose a global minimum tax of 2 percent on the world’s 2,700 billionaires. This would raise an estimated $250 billion annually. One stat…
by Onkar Ghate Galt's Speech Excerpts: Anyone who reads John Galt’s radio broadcast and who has some familiarity with the ideas that have shaped and continue to shape Western culture, should recognize his speech as a state…
Review by Jean Moroney OUTLIVE I recommend Outlive to you, my readers, in part because you are generally interested in self-improvement, but also because I think you’ll appreciate the individualistic, logical, value…
by Ben Bayer Ayn Rand Institute Excerpts: The scientifically minded should be skeptical of the popular morality of impartiality. Debunking the Supernaturalism That Haunts Secular Ethics “Not only do we need no God to e…
by Peter C. Earle (AEIR) Excerpts: A recent series of memes and social network one-liners purport to expose the moral bankruptcy of capitalism by asking rhetorically, “Why is baby formula kept under lock and key?” The explicit …
The Newest Attack on Capitalism Comes From Republicans by STEVE GREENHUT Excerpts: As I noted in my Orange County Register column last week, too many Republicans are channeling their inner Bernie Sanders. U.S.…
A brilliant article by philosopher Aaron Smith. Excerpts: In an essay on Ayn Rand and Aristotle, Massimo Pigliucci, a prominent voice in the Modern Stoicism movement, bends over backward to assure his readers that unlike critics who mischa…
from Sam Weaver @ The Ayn Rand Institute Proposed solutions to classroom indoctrination too often overlook and reinforce the problem’s root cause. At school board meetings across America, parents have spoken out about the promotion of ideolo…
A real gem from Don Watkins. Excerpts: God isn’t required for morality. Morality is a vital instruction manual for how to live well—and there’s no mystery to why we should want to live well. We only need God if we equate morality…
I figured I'd better say something about the posts I've been regularly putting here. While I mostly agree with each authors viewpoint, there are always aspects of their articles I have serious issues with. So, while I put these articles here for you…
This is an opinion editorial by Kudzai Kutukwa, a financial inclusion advocate and Mandela Washington fellow. Throughout American economic history, there has been a constant drive toward centralization, as evidenced by the many attempts to est…
Normally I do not link to The Blaze, but this article is worth studying, as we are rapidly descending into anarchy. Not only in America, but throughout the Western world. As the regime jails political opponents, meme makers, and protesters …
This is an opinion editorial by Josef Tětek, a Bitcoin analyst at Trezor. Imagine this: It’s payday but before the money reaches your account, someone else has already decided what you’ll spend your money on — one third of…
by Edwin Locke It must be noted that free will as such cannot be proved. Why? Because free will is a precondition for proving anything. Robot regurgitations are not knowledge. Free will is, thus, an axiom of epistemology. It …
By Dr. Michael Hurd America Is Now Worse Than a Banana Republic Regardless of what you think of Trump, (and I despise him). There is something much deeper and more sinister going on. In a true banana republic, when there&r…
By Edwin A. Locke Actually, we should never have gone to Afghanistan in the first place. Military training does not help fundamentalist countries in the absence of value training, and value training could only work if a large portion of th…
The free nations of the world should work together to achieve the highest degree of separation possible between their world and the unfree world. By Edwin A. Locke The United FREE Nations
By Jonathan Turley July 24,2023 LINK: The New Authoritarians Excerpts: “I shall resist any illegal federal court order.” When “the Court’s interpretation of the Constitution is egregiously wrong,” …
