94 Articles tagged with: Political Philosophy

• Against the New Post-2016-Trump Right Too

  As part of my Neither right nor left mantra, another datum.

  Most people use “right” and “left” journalistically: to designate shifting bundles of social-political beliefs and attitudes. The bundl… Read Article

• The Violence in Charlottesville

  The vast majority of people in the United States have no interest whatsoever in street battles between the alt-right (better described today in more poignant terms) and the counter-protesters. Most people have normal problems like paying … Read Article

• What Is “Neoliberalism” Anyway?

  The term “neoliberalism” is being flung around everywhere these days, usually with a haughty sense of “everyone knows what this is.” But do we really? You may think you know, but there’s very little agreement among everyone else.

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• Pope Francis Attacks Objectivism in All but Name

  Ayn Rand delved into some of Objectivism’s most fundamental ideas—and their most poignant personal implications—in the essay she devoted to the 1967 encyclical by Pope Paul VI, Populorum Progressio (“on the development of peoples.”)

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• What Would Ayn Rand Think About Americanism Today?

  Seventy years ago Ayn Rand, thankful for finding refuge in the United States from the totalitarian Soviet Union, wrote a short essay series entitled “Textbook of Americanism.” As we mark the 240th anniversary of this country’s birth, we can … Read Article

• Millennials Need Capitalist Morality

  A Harvard survey found that only 42% of 18 to 29 year olds support capitalism. The good news of sorts is that only 33% support socialism. Yet 44% support its close cousin progressivism, and 48% support “social justice activism.” These res… Read Article

• Ayn Rand and Margaret Sanger—Say What?!

  A recent piece by John Ellis at PJMedia, Take the Quiz: Who Said It ... Margaret Sanger or Ayn Rand?, catches our attention by the odd juxtaposition of Rand and Sanger. Ellis offers 16 quotations, with the challenge to say which woman is the sourc… Read Article

• Three Enemies of Capitalism (Part 2)

  Atlas Summit 2014 -- In this second part of a 2-part series , Carrie-Ann Biondi explains and challenges the essential claims of John Rawls’s welfare liberalism, and defends capitalism against the false accusatio

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• D-Day and Enlightenment Values

  My late Uncle “Boots” Van Pelt was almost killed 70 years ago. He went ashore on Omaha Beach with the 29th Infantry Division on D-Day. After the initial troop landings, he was found and thought dead, but he roused as they were putting him in… Read Article

• Intellectual Enemies of Capitalism

   The theme of the 2014 Atlas Summit is " Who is John Galt. " Fans of Atlas Shrugged will recall that knowing his intellectual enemies accounts for part of John Galt’s success in stopping “the motor of the world” when he persuades producer… Read Article

• How John Galt Earns His Freedom

  Coming up at the 2014 Atlas Summit:  “On this material, profit-chasing earth,” John Galt tells us, man must create the values he needs if he seeks to live. That takes virtue. And in order to do it, man needs rights. That much is standard Ob… Read Article

• The Atlas Society at Libertopia 2013

  Objectivist and libertarian communities often discuss their utopian potentialities, so the prospect of the Libertopia Festival —by its name alone—seemed a good location for The Atlas Society to reach out to attendees with information about Ayn Ra… Read Article

• What are Rights? | Atlas University

  Political controversies and protests are often dominated by the theme of rights or individual rights. We hear about a "right to health care," a "right to education," even a "right to high-speed Internet." In California, one man has even claimed … Read Article

• Why Don't More Businessmen Fight?

  When businessmen get involved in policy advocacy, they can help promote the freedom to do business. Yet the impression, fostered by some libertarian intellectuals, that business lobbying tends only to produce special favors for politically conne… Read Article

• Now on Scribd: "Radical for Capitalism"

  So, maybe there's no free lunch, but hey, here's a free copy:  Radical for Capitalism: An Introduction to the Political Thought of Ayn Rand , by Will Thomas -- as a pdf download from Scribd.   About the book:

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• Review: Moral Rights and Political Freedom

  BOOK REVIEW:   Moral Rights and Political Freedom . By Tara Smith. (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. 224 pp. $57.50; $23.50, paper.) … Read Article

• Myth: Ayn Rand was an Elitist

  The heroes of Ayn Rand’s fiction are great achievers, like Howard Roark, the superlative architect in The Fountainhead, and John Galt, the brilliant physicist-philosopher in Atlas Shrugged. Moreover, Galt is a revolutionary advocate for achiev… Read Article

• Weighing War: How to Think about Iraq and North Korea

  April 1, 2003 -- The United States stands at a time of unparalleled military opportunity and danger. There is opportunity because the U.S. military substantially outclasses every other military force in its technology and its reach. The United S… Read Article

• What is the Objectivist View of Law and Government (Politics)?

  Question: What is the Objectivist view of law and government?

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• Laissez-Faire Capitalism

  Question:  Ayn Rand said, "The only action which a government can take to protect free competition is: Laissez-faire! which, in translation, means: Hands off." But how is illegitimate economic power deriving from false value contained without g… Read Article