• Prudent Principles for Advancing Liberty 
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Principle 3. Most disagreements on theory need not lead to disagreements on action. Indeed, most disagreements that libertarians have amongst themselves should have no bearing on the steps that ought to be taken – and the cooperation and mutual goodwill that ought to exist – in the effort to bring about a freer society. Whether one is a minarchist or anarchist (or someone who, like Friedrich Hayek, wants a significantly reduced central government that still provides some basic regulation and a social safety net) – whether one is a “thin” or a “thick” libertarian – whether one is an empiricist, rationalist, or Objectivist – and whatever one believes about the best way to structure a government, if any – all of these questions only need to lead to substantive differences in action once we are far, far closer to a truly free society than we are today.      View blog reactions

• • • The Accomplishments of Atlas Shrugged: Part I 
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Atlas Shrugged movie  |Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  |Individualism  |Image  | I write this review not out of any sense of obligation to Ayn Rand’s legacy; nor do I write it to spite the many film critics who reviewed the film negatively. In my view, what matters when it comes to a film is whether I enjoy it. When I saw Atlas Shrugged: Part I, I did indeed enjoy it.      View blog reactions

• • ACTA: The war on progress, freedom, and human civilization 
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Atlas Shrugged  | To quote Ayn Rand’s villain Dr. Floyd Ferris from Atlas Shrugged, “There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them.”      View blog reactions

• The anti-educational effects of public schools 
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My readings of philosophy, economics, and political theory as written by some of the greatest minds of all time gave me an invaluable store of knowledge and analytical skills that propel me forward to this day. It was during the internet explorations of my high-school years that I discovered John Locke, Frederic Bastiat, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, and Murray Rothbard, among many others.      View blog reactions

• A critique of Russell Kirk’s “Libertarians: The chirping sectaries” 
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The foundation for libertarianism that differs most from [John Stuart] Mill's thinking is the natural rights philosophy, whose varieties are espoused by John Locke, Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, and many others.      View blog reactions

• • Atheism: Facts and myths 
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There exist numerous ways to arrive at an understanding of morality without any reference to a deity. [....] Like the Enlightenment philosophers and Ayn Rand, one can see morality as originating from rational self-interest.      View blog reactions

• •Morality does not require religion 
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The abstinence from coercion can be arrived at from a variety of intellectual perspectives – among them the natural law tradition, Christianity, utilitarianism, Objectivism, subjectivism, and libertarianism. Each of them has their own justification for this commitment, but the commitment itself is far more important than the justification or even lack thereof.      View blog reactions

• •A review of Edward W. Younkins’s Philosophers of Capitalism 
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This book is a detailed, sophisticated, interesting, and multifaceted endeavor to integrate the ideas of Ayn Rand's Objectivism and the Austrian School of Economics.      View blog reactions

•Natural law and the impropriety of self-sacrifice: A review of the “Chronicles of Narnia” film 
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I seek to evaluate this film qua film -- and share the perspective of an atheist Objectivist on what is evidently a work inspired by Christianity.      View blog reactions

• •Extremism versus fanaticism 
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Commentary opposing Tony Blair's targeting of "extremism."
Were she alive today, Ayn Rand would have urged a staunch, vocal opposition against Blair's new methods of 'moderate' fanaticism.      View blog reactions

• •Rational argumentation in text 
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One of the worst mistakes an argumentator can make is to bring up an external source (be it a fact, a theory, or an author) and not show how precisely that source relates to the particular argument being made. Just saying, “Ayn Rand proves that I am right” gives absolutely no useful information to the reader, and does not advance one’s claim one bit.      View blog reactions

• •The medical world’s Howard Roark 
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Noble Vision by Gen LaGreca is a contemporary novel in the Randian tradition, whose substance and style are perhaps the greatest reflection of the ideal of the founder of Objectivism since the latter's death in 1982. The characters are designed to carefully reflect their chosen value premises, while the plot is at the same time comprehensible and complex, logical and multifaceted.      View blog reactions

•The human personality, just laws, and laissez faire 
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According to philosopher Ayn Rand, "The moral is the chosen. Morality ends where a gun begins." Forcing an individual to be "moral" is a contradiction in terms and devalues both the human personality and the very significance of morality.      View blog reactions

•The human personality, just laws, and laissez-faire 
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According to philosopher Ayn Rand, "The moral is the chosen. Morality ends where a gun begins." Forcing an individual to be "moral" is a contradiction in terms.      View blog reactions