Ayn Rand died on March 6, 1982.

On the 25th Anniversary of 9/11: The Full Series

It was 1976, the Bicentennial anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence.

On this date in 1969, a rebellion began that unfolded over six days, a landmark in the battle for human freedom and personal autonomy &…

The New York Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs, 4 games to 1, to win their first NBA Finals in 53 years. This Game 5 Knicks victory, 94-90, was thrilling—as was their miraculous triumph in Game 4, …

Reply the Second to Matt Zwolinski

Is Peter Thiel a Real Libertarian?

Celebrating National Pet Month

A Reply to Matt Zwolinski

In this episode, we meet Chris Sciabarra—a writer whose sense of freedom began not in the body, but in the mind. Inspired early on by thinkers like Ayn Rand and later shaped by the dialectical ideas o...

On March 27, 2026, during a Q&A at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Priority Summit in Miami, Trump was asked: “What is the one leadership trait the world is missing right now? What is mi…

Song of the Day: Seven Nation Army features the words and music of Jack White and Meg White, who make up the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame duo, The White Stripes. If you’re not familiar with the…

This morning, I was devastated to learn of the death of Brian Doherty, senior editor at Reason magazine. Brian wrote a wonderful “freewheeling history of the modern American libertarian movement”, …

For those of us who grew up listening to—and watching—New York Yankees baseball in the 1970s and 1980s, the names Phil Rizzuto, Frank Messer, and Bill White will ring a bell. Long before John Sterl…

The title of this essay finds its macabre origins in the nineteenth century when physicians rarely washed their hands between surgeries. They performed their operations with increasing technical pr…

Though Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933 after a stunning rise to political prominence, his virulent ideas were crafted years before, in the wake of Germany’s defeat in World…

The current political climate has brought us a destructive tariff regime and deportation thuggery as well as a profound extension of the mass surveillance state. Even the current winter climate isn…

“We all see the same thing,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said, when viewing the latest video of the latest U.S. citizen shot to death by ICE agents. Actually, we all do not see the s…

Ayn Rand’s views on immigration are well known. Back in 1973, in response to a question on “open immigration” during a Ford Hall Forum appearance, Rand stated: You don’t know my conception of self-…

Curiosity and relationship anarchy as real alternatives to toxic internet "culture"

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Over 60 years ago, in April 1964, Ayn Rand addressed “The Property Status of the Airwaves.” She wrote: It was [Herbert] Hoover who fought for government control of radio and, as Secretary of Commer…

The “ink” wasn’t even dry on last week’s essay — “When Hatred for the ‘Woke’ Left Trumps the Love of Liberty” — and, well, here we are.

Part IV: The Navy Boys

Part III: George & Charlie

Part II: Frank J. Rubino

The move is the latest by the president to revamp the Washington, D.C., cultural institution in his image.

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Part I: Letters Found

Donald Trump holds a White House press briefing to detail a federal crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C. Read the transcript here.

Later today, Carsten Charles (CC) Sabathia enters the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a New York Yankee. Mike Lupica in the New York Daily News put it best: “The Yankees aren’t celebrating a cham…

Note: This is the third in a series of essays on public discourse. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2 Three years ago, I started this essay series on the collapse of public discourse. At the time, I was frus…

The President and CEO of the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), Tal Tsfany, gave a provocative talk at OCON (an acronym for “Objectivist Conference”) on July 3 in Boston entitled, “Spreading Objectivism: A …

Today, I finished watching “The Wright Way,” an uplifting and poignant documentary on the career of David Wright, who was the third baseman for the New York Mets for 14 years (2004-2018…

As the Trump administration gears up efforts to deport immigrants en masse, asylum seekers at immigration court who thought they were playing by the rules were abruptly swept up by ICE agents in lo…

This morning, I awoke to the news that Elon Musk is leaving government work! The man whom Trump put in charge of the “Department of Government Efficiency,” who promised to cut government ‘waste, fr…

This essay also appears on Medium. Scroll down for a rejoinder to various criticisms of this essay. Adam Smith vs. Donald Trump (from Wikipedia Commons and Truth Social, respectively) The first one…

Detainees claim they are enduring inhumane conditions, including lack of access to water, inadequate food and denial of religious rights.