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Ayn Rand & Objectivism
Ayn Rand on ‘Moral Sanction’: What Bryan Caplan Gets Wrong
Jon Hersey September 22, 2023
Practicing what Rand advocated requires not only having (and, when appropriate, providing) valid reasons for one’s views and values, but also raising one’s standards of evaluation and refraining from “unprovoked moral denunciations or debates.”
Arts & Culture, Reviews
Barbie, Written and Directed by Greta Gerwig
Lorence Olivo September 14, 2023
Superficially, Barbie was made to look cheerful, bright, and cute, but beneath the appealing facade, the movie is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It’s a shame that this movie appears to purposely stir up division where the potential was for something universally uplifting.
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From the Editor, Fall 2023
Thomas Walker-Werth August 29, 2023
Welcome to the Fall 2023 issue of The Objective Standard. I hope you enjoy the issue.
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
GMOs: Good, Man-Made Organisms
Angelica Walker-Werth August 29, 2023
Contrary to decades-long, well-financed efforts to discredit and prohibit GMOs, gene editing is a profoundly life-enhancing technology. GM crops can and have saved lives, improved health, enhanced the soils they are planted in, freed up land, and increased profits for farmers—especially in the developing world.
Arts & Culture, Science & Technology
Star Trek Inspires People ‘to Boldly Go’
Thomas Walker-Werth August 29, 2023
Although its vision for the future is sometimes imperfect, Star Trek has, with its unabashed optimism, celebration of science and technology, and exploration of philosophic and moral questions, inspired countless people to achieve wonderful things.
Good Living, Philosophy
Helen Keller’s Five Keys to Being Happy
Craig Biddle August 29, 2023
In 1882, when Helen Keller was nineteen months old, an illness left her blind, deaf, and consequently dumb. But she would go on to live a life of success and happiness. How?
Arts & Culture
Writing against Your Life
Richard Mitchell August 29, 2023
Richard Mitchell (1929–2002), also known as “the underground grammarian,” was a champion of clarity in thought and communication.
Arts & Culture
Nine Inspiring Poems about the Future
Various Authors August 29, 2023
Including works by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, D. H. Lawrence, Edgar Guest, Arthur Hugh Clough, James Oppenheim, Langston Hughes, William Stanley Braithwaite, and Will Allen Dromgoole.
Arts & Culture, Philosophy
George Lucas Gets the Moral Meaning of Star Wars Wrong
Thomas Walker-Werth August 29, 2023
George Lucas says that selfishness puts one on the dark side, but it’s really the other way around. Selfishness, properly understood, is the rational concern for one’s own interests. It is the light.
Good Living
On Choosing to Be a Younger Son
Craig Biddle August 29, 2023
If you want to be fully alive and fully engaged in living a beautiful life, bear in mind the difference between the older and younger son—and choose to be the latter.
Announcements
OSI Is Seeking a Director of Development
TOS Admin August 23, 2023
Are you experienced in fundraising, sales, or management? Would you like to work with the life-loving people at Objective Standard Institute (OSI)? If so, the Director of Development position might be for you.
Arts & Culture, Science & Technology
The Flower of Forest Park: Innovation in Architecture
Seamus Riley August 1, 2023
One Hundred Above the Park has something to teach us about the history of skyscraper design, the future of apartment design, and the philosophy behind great new architecture.
Arts & Culture, History, Reviews
Oppenheimer, Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan
Angelica Walker-Werth July 28, 2023
Oppenheimer was a key mind behind the invention and development of the bombs that ended World War II. He was also haunted by the question of whether producing these bombs was the right thing to do. This question runs throughout Christopher Nolan’s recent biopic, Oppenheimer, hailed by some as “the most epic WWII film yet."
Arts & Culture, Reviews
Sound of Freedom, Directed by Alejandro Gómez Monteverde
Tim White July 21, 2023
Although Sound of Freedom is emotionally straining at times, it is nonetheless an excellent and important film about heroic, inspiring people—and a film that hopefully will have a positive impact on real-life efforts to fight child trafficking.
Biographies, History
Robert P. McCulloch: The Man Who Bought London Bridge
Thomas Walker-Werth July 11, 2023
Robert P. McCulloch worked constantly to grow his wealth and create new things, even when others couldn’t see the potential in his ideas or dismissed them as impossible. He deserves to be remembered as a productive businessman, a pioneering inventor, and, most of all, a visionary.