Philosophy

Here's a video of Andrew Bernstein delivering his speech "Religion vs. Morality" at The Objective Standard's mini-conference in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Bernstein will be debating Christian conservative Dinesh D'Souza on the subject of "Christianity: Good or Bad for Mankind?" on February 8 in Austin, TX. Be sure to purchase auditorium tickets in…

The blogger Publius makes an extraordinary claim: If in America “black men [were] murdered at the same rate as everyone else, the overall [homicide] rate would drop to 1.9 out of 100,000 population. That would give the United States the 147th highest murder rate in the world.” This raises two…

Craig Biddle fields questions on the ideas that undergird liberty, the morality of communes, and the prospect of defending liberty with "non-coercive altruism." http://www.youtube.com/embed/18YochP4wVg

An American who considers all the places he might have been born will conclude (if he values his life and happiness) that he was lucky to have been born in America, the Land of Opportunity, the Land of Liberty. Those born anywhere in the industrialized (or even semi-industrialized) world will…

Why is it that Sam Harris, a committed utilitarian, sometimes sounds a bit like an egoist? In my recently published essay “Sam Harris’s Failure to Formulate a Scientific Morality,” I point out that Harris upholds as his standard of moral value the utilitarian precept of the greatest good (or happiness)…

Examines the crucial need for advocates of liberty to uphold the same cognitive standard in considering moral matters as they do in considering political matters.

Examines Harris’s claims to have grounded his brand of utilitarianism in reality, and finds them wanting.

Examines the Golden Age of Islam and considers the ideas of some of its leading thinkers, telling “a story of great achievements—and their rejection; of great heroes—and their defeat; of great minds—and their suppression; ultimately, of great danger—and its cancerous growth.”

Georgia Congressman Paul Broun made some waves when he stated that the theory of evolution, the fundamental integrating theory of biological science, is a lie “straight from the pit of hell.” Charles Darwin spent more than twenty years of his life gathering evidence for the theory of evolution. He presented…

Once again, a Republican congressional candidate has thrown the party back on its heels with a cruel comment concerning rape. In answer to a debate question on when abortion should be legal, Indiana GOP senate candidate Richard Mourdock said: I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I…