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TOS-Con 2019 will be the most mind-expanding, soul-fueling, life-enhancing conference of the year. And that's just one reason . . .

Timbs’s victory marks a significant advance for the protection of individual rights and provides a revealing glimpse into the crucial role that political philosophy plays in constitutional law.

We’ve updated TOS’s subscription offerings and added gift subscriptions—improved ways to enjoy or give the journal for people of reason!

The Spring 2019 issue of TOS: heroes, intelligent disobedience, liberty, justice, conceptual corrections, free-will poetry, and more!

What are the characteristics of heroes? And who are the heroes of great literature? This essay examines five exceptional protagonists.

Here’s a powerful tool and mnemonic for teaching children to think for themselves and to disobey adults when that’s the right thing to do.

Here's a brief introduction to Ayn Rand’s views on liberty and how they differ from conventional views.

Tal Tsfany, president and CEO of ARI, reports on his first eight months at the helm and his plans for the future of the organization.

Enjoy these poems celebrating free will—including works by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Berton Braley, and Walter Wintle.

Although barbarians are at the gate, all is not lost, argues TOS reader Rich Batey. We can retake the moral high ground and ultimately win.

The lecture and performance descriptions for TOS-Con 2019: Philosophy for Freedom and Flourishing have been posted.

For all his pessimism, Conrad held that a life of unfaltering conviction is a meaningful one.

Unlike most who oppose her, Ocasio-Cortez does not promote contradictory political/economic and moral principles.

Sheets created a contemporary art appropriate for a lender proud of its part in transforming the California desert into a land of innovation and plenty.

This self-made immigrant helped make the Revolution possible, then laid the foundation for America’s essentially capitalist financial policies.