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About Jon Hersey

About Jon Hersey

Jon Hersey is the associate editor of The Objective Standard. His work focuses on intellectual history, specifically, the ideas on which freedom and flourishing depend. He has published in-depth articles on John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Stark, William Wilberforce, Rosa Parks, and more.

Jon Hersey's Articles

Henry Ford on the Justice of Income Inequality
March 6, 2018
Although income inequality is pitched as a modern and escalating problem requiring new regulations and redistributive measures, Henry Ford understood the factors that determine a man’s income, or lack thereof, as far back as 1922.
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Live Interview with Carrie-Ann Biondi about Aristotle and Ayn Rand on Flourishing
March 5, 2018
Tune in on TOS’s Facebook page to learn more about Dr. Biondi’s TOS-Con presentation: “Aristotle and Ayn Rand on Flourishing.”
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Derek Magill on Building a Career You’ll Love
February 28, 2018
"Many people think you have to go get some sort of third-party permission or something. . . . And the reality is you can skip a lot of that stuff if you just get started making things that are valuable to other people.” —Derek Magill
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Live Interview with Jim Brown on Intellectual Activism
February 27, 2018
Join me this Wednesday (Feb. 28) at 8:30 EST / 5:30 PST for a chat with Jim Brown, CEO of the Ayn Rand Institute. We'll discuss Mr. Brown’s TOS-Con presentation: “Intellectual Activism for Fun and Profit.”
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Happy Birthday, George Washington!
February 22, 2018
Washington recognized that we must choose daily to support freedom. Otherwise, we lose it, bit by bit, to those who favor force and tyranny.
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Live Interview: Derek Magill on Building a Career You Love, Promoting Yourself, and more . . .
February 19, 2018
Want to build a career around things you love? Tune in Wednesday, and education entrepreneur Derek Magill will answer your questions live.
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Live Interview with Timothy Sandefur on Frederick Douglass
February 13, 2018
Celebrate Frederick Douglass's 200th birthday with Timothy Sandefur, author of the new book Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man.
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Live Interview with Alex Epstein about TOS-Con 2018
February 8, 2018
Tune in to learn more about Epstein’s two TOS-Con presentations: “The Human Flourishing Project” and “How to Communicate with Clarity and Impact.”

Alex Epstein on the Power of Opinion Stories
January 28, 2018
When you use opinion stories rather than opinion statements, you’re likely to meet with less resistance, more discussion, and greater persuasion.
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RooseveltCare: How Social Security Is Sabotaging the Land of Self-Reliance by Don Watkins
January 24, 2018
RooseveltCare makes clear that resolving the debt crisis by ending the entitlement state is imperative both morally and practically.
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‘It Was Time for Every Man to Stir’: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
January 10, 2018
Even after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, many Americans held that the colonies would reconcile peacefully with Britain. Paine explained otherwise.
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Live Free or Die: The Story of General John Stark
January 4, 2018
General John Stark did more than help America win the Revolutionary War. He was an exemplar of that quintessential American virtue: independence.
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The Boston Tea Party’s Principles and Heroes
December 16, 2017
The Boston Tea Party and being “merry . . . at the idea of making so large a cup of tea for the fishes.”
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Carrie-Ann Biondi on Ayn Rand’s Enduring Appeal
December 12, 2017
In a world filled with charged rhetoric where increasing volume tends to turn people off, Biondi calmly and coherently explains key principles of Rand’s philosophy and controversies surrounding it.
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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, Seventh Edition, by William Zinsser
December 6, 2017
William Zinsser’s On Writing Well is an outstanding guide for anyone who writes nonfiction. Whether you write emails or op-eds, family histories or scientific papers, reading and integrating Zinsser’s Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction is sure to prove of immense value.
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