91 Articles tagged with: Values and Morals

• My Time with Jeffrey Epstein

  “You shouldn’t wear that lipstick, it makes you look older,” Jeffrey Epstein told me.

  I was 27, and wasn’t thinking about how to make myself look younger -- particularly not when dating a man 13 years my senior.  At the time i… Read Article

• Not #MeToo, but #MeFirst

  What would you rather be remembered for: “Read my lips” or “Dodge my hands”?  Breaking the tax pled… Read Article

• The Objectivist Crisis – and the John Allison Cure

  Recently I was invited back by economist and professor Mark Skousen to teach his business school class at Chapman University – the topic: John Allison’s excellent book, The Leadership Crisis and the Free Market Cure.

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• Authenticity: As Rare as Mink Earmuffs at Church

  After my mom ghosted us, my dad struggled to raise myself and my brother. Then he remarried and started his own consultancy business. Over time, the hand-me-down clothes were exchanged for clothes from discount stores and, eventually, we began sho… Read Article

• Would Ayn Rand Wear a School Uniform?

  My 5-year-old daughters were very excited. My wife had taken them to the craft store to buy T-shirts with sketches on them that they could color themselves with special markers. They couldn’t wait to wear them to nursery school to show their fri… Read Article

• Would Ayn Rand Like Selfies?

  In the late 1970s I attended an Objectivist lecture in New York where Ayn Rand answered questions. After the event wrapped, I walked toward the stage, camera in hand, to snap some shots of my favorite living philosopher. Her handlers quickly came … Read Article

• Celebrating the lives of 3 remarkable Objectivists

  Tibor Machan  (May 15) 

  When Tibor Machan passed away recently, the Objectivist and freedom movements lost a prolific spokesman.

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• Marguerite - movie review

  Sometimes you might tell a little white lie because you don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings. But the lies often end in tragedy. 

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• Transhumanism vs. a Conservative Death Ethos

  Zoltan Istvan, author of the provocative novel The Transhumanist Wager (I’ll review it soon), recently suggested in Wired that individuals be required to secure a government license before having a child.

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• Suicide and Reasons to Live

  The death of entertainer Robin Williams has again brought to public discussion the serious  matter of suicide.

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• The Moral and Cultural Significance of "Genie, you're free"

  “Genie, you’re free.” In Disney’s Aladdin, those are the words in which the Genie learns that after thousands of years of being forced to grant the wishes of whoever rubbed his lamp, he will finally get the one thing he’s always wished… Read Article

• Living as an Individualist in a Collectivist World

  Atlas Summit 2013 -- The depressing political landscape need not leave us depressed as individualists. The Objectivist philosophy seeks foremost to show each of us how to live happy, individual lives. Atlas Society Director of Advocacy Edward Hu… Read Article

• Building Atlantis: How to Create Your Own Personal and Business Paradise

  Atlas Summit 2013 -- If we can't escape to the idyllic mountain hideaway of Ayn Rand's Atlantis, can we at least bring the core ideals and practices of Galt's Gulch into our own lives and businesses? The short answer is "Yes." In this provocativ… Read Article

• Integrity in Company

  Atlas Summit 2013 -- Objectivism is a philosophy of individualism, yet most of us work inside organizations. How do you preserve the integrity of your individual values and principles when you are subject to bosses, rules, and corporate goals? … Read Article

• Values in Atlas Shrugged (Part 2): Goodwill and Trust

  Atlas Shrugged is a paean to rational selfishness. But it also contrasts the social vision of rational, independent cooperation versus collectivism and irrationalism. In this talk, William R Thomas discusses the social values of goodwill and tru… Read Article

• Values in Atlas Shrugged (Part 1: Career)

  Atlas Summit 2012 -- The heroes of Atlas Shrugged are rational, productive businesspeople. In Ayn Rand's thought, a career represents the central value in one's life, the means by which one supports oneself independently and reshapes the world.<… Read Article

• Objectivism, Public Policy, and Entrepreneurship

   

  Atlas Summit 2012 -- In this talk, delivered at the 2012 Atlas Summit, Professor Stephen Hicks presents an Objectivist perspective on entrepreneurship and public policy. Objectivism's ethical philosophy is highly entrepren… Read Article

• The Problem With "Selfishness"

  Atlas Summit 2012 -- In her book, The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand exhorted readers to put the word "selfishness" to its true and proper use: to describe the ethic of rational self-interest. Fifty-one years later, it's still an uphill battle … Read Article

• A Self-Help Guide to Living in a Free Society

  Editor's Note: Gen LaGreca appeared on CNN Headlines News on February 11, 2008, in response to interest in this article. TNI March 2008 -- Too many Americans are losing the ability to take care of themselves and are instead looking to the g… Read Article

• Losing While Winning

  Fall 2011 -- Newsflash: it’s a competitive world out there! Some of us are winning and some are losing. It’s the game of live-and-let-live together.

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