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About Angelica Walker-Werth

About Angelica Walker-Werth

Angelica is a fellow at Objective Standard Institute and an assistant editor and writer for The Objective Standard. Her roles at OSI include managing the internship and scholarship programs, course administration and development, and editing On Solid Ground. She writes nonfiction articles and speaks about Objectivism and fiction; you can see her work at walker-werth.com. She is also a voracious reader of fiction in her spare time, and writes about the ideas in fictional works at fictionosophy.substack.com.

Angelica Walker-Werth's Articles

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The Obscenity of Banning Books
August 27, 2024
Granting governments the ability to violate intellectual freedom by banning books from schools doesn’t help or protect anyone. It is an obscene way of stunting developing minds at a crucial juncture of life and handing the state yet another tool for controlling us.
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Fly Me to the Moon, Directed by Greg Berlanti
July 19, 2024
Some say that you should reach for the Moon, because if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. Unfortunately, despite its starpower, Fly Me to the Moon fails even to get off the ground.
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Love in Atlas Shrugged
May 22, 2024
In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand shows that healthy relationships are based on shared moral values and a harmony of self-interest, and they exclude sacrifice.
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Individualism in Anthem, Jane Eyre, and The Giver
January 12, 2024
Many literary works depict individualist heroes struggling against collectivist societies, but three brilliant examples are Charlotte Brönte’s classic Jane Eyre, Lois Lowry’s award-winning young-adult novel The Giver, and Ayn Rand’s dystopian novella Anthem.
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Wonka, Directed by Paul King
December 15, 2023
Despite Wonka’s unfortunate confusion about greed, Wonka is a joyful film that celebrates innovation, entrepreneurship, and win-win relationships. If you’re looking for a fun movie to enjoy with the whole family this holiday season, this is a great pick.
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Directed by Francis Lawrence
December 7, 2023
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes fails its source material in two major ways: It barely touches on the control-versus-freedom conflict central to the book, and it fails to establish Coriolanus as the Hobbesian power luster he appears as in the later films.
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The Great Escaper, Directed by Oliver Parker
November 8, 2023
The Great Escaper is a touching tribute to important aspects of a life well-lived: honoring your friends, cherishing your spouse, doing the things you want to do even when no one thinks you can, and celebrating the pleasure of being alive.

The Creator, Directed by Gareth Edwards
October 13, 2023
Instead of dealing with serious and timely issues in a thought-provoking manner, The Creator rehashes familiar tropes and common fears to convey a shallow anti-America story that ignores the moral issues it raises.
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GMOs: Good, Man-Made Organisms
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.
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Oppenheimer, Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan
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."
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What’s Love Got to Do With It? Directed by Shekhar Kapur
, March 14, 2023
What’s Love Got to Do With It? is a well-written and refreshingly thoughtful film that shows the crucial importance of honesty and independent thinking in achieving happiness. It is a sensitive yet incisive study of the clash between Islamic and Western cultures—and between collectivism and individualism.
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Knock at the Cabin, Written, Produced, and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
, February 13, 2023
Knock at the Cabin depicts the vile notion that it is moral to sacrifice the person you love most—your highest value—for the benefit of others and/or to appease God.
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Are Filmmakers Finally Standing Up to Chinese Censorship?
December 12, 2022
The Chinese Communist Party perpetrates some of the worst censorship in the modern world. Film companies have a moral responsibility not to sanction the CCP and its horrors by capitulating to them—much less collaborating with them.
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Hocus Pocus 2, Directed by Anne Fletcher
November 4, 2022
Unfortunately, Hocus Pocus 2 (2022) features only the trappings of the original, with watered-down characters, a weak plot, and no moral message.
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Does Abortion Violate Rights?
October 4, 2022
To understand whether abortion violates rights, we need to understand what rights are, where they come from, and how they apply in this context.
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