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Here’s a speech I gave at Universidad Francisco Marroquín earlier this month. Check it out via YouTube, or download the mp3 file. Enjoy! Like this post? Join our mailing list to receive our weekly digest. And for in-depth commentary from an Objectivist perspective, subscribe to our quarterly journal, The Objective…

Although I strongly disagree with Sam Harris about ethics and volition, I admire his recent article passionately defending free speech in the wake of Islamist murders of Americans in Libya and violence elsewhere. Harris first criticizes the Obama administration’s policy of appeasement: [T]he White House struck the same note of…

The Fall 2012 issue of TOS has been posted to our website. The print edition is at press and will be mailed shortly. The e-book and audio versions will be posted on September 25 and 30 respectively. The contents of the Fall issue are: FEATURES Ayn Rand: America’s Comeback Philosopher…

Following the Islamist murders of Americans at the embassy in Libya last Tuesday, Islamists continue rioting in Libya, Yemen, and Egypt—on the absurd pretext that an amateurish film hurt their feelings by offending “Allah.” But the recent murderous violence is only the most visible and outrageous manifestation of a much…

The communist insurgency known as the New People’s Army has admitted to bombing a carnival in the Philippines and injuring scores of civilians, including many children. The NPA has apologized for the civilian casualties, as if such a thing were unforeseeable when attacking a carnival. In their effort to establish…

Speaking from the State Department this morning, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the Islam-motivated slaughter of four Americans at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi “an attack that should shock the conscience of people of all faiths.” This statement is correct—although not in the way Clinton means it. The conscience of…

The jihadist attack against America on 9/11 was an atrocity—and so is America's self-sacrificial response to that attack. Let's rectify it.

Slate’s Amanda Marcotte argues that a new Florida law attempts “to get around the spirit” of the 1962 Supreme Court decision Engel v. Vitale—a decision that banned government-sponsored prayer in public schools on the grounds that it violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The Florida law “allows students…

Barack Obama apparently failed to see the irony in criticizing the Republicans for promoting antiquated ideas, for Obama’s politics rehash those off FDR. Obama emoted: Despite all the challenges that we face in this new century, what [Republicans] offered [during their convention] was more often than not an agenda that…

Stable owner Thomas Hobson is said to have offered his customers the choice: “Take the horse nearest the gate, or take none at all.” At least Hobson offered a reasonable alternative. Bill Clinton offers no such thing. Here’s what the former president said at the Democratic National Convention: We Democrats,…

To profit is to improve one’s condition and enhance one’s life. In the context of a voluntary exchange, a profit is a gain that each party expects to receive. In the context of business, a profit is a financial gain after all costs have been paid. Businesses profit only if…

Democrats often claim they are “pro-choice,” yet usually they fundamentally oppose a person’s moral right to live his own life and make his own choices unhindered by the coercion of others. Zach Weissmueller of ReasonTV brilliantly exposes the left’s hypocrisy concerning “choice.” Of course, when Weissmueller asks Democrats at the…

Often the left mocks someone to the degree of his effectiveness in showing the irrationality of the left. Clint Eastwood is their latest target, indicating that his speech at the Republican Convention found its mark. No, Eastwood’s talk was not very substantive—after all, this was a movie star speaking at…

Under the pretense that so-called “super-PACs” would “drown out the voices of ordinary citizens,” President Obama “proposed the idea of a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s 2-year-old Citizens United decision . . . which paved the way for today’s unlimited political expenditures by political action committees.” But Obama’s…