Tim White's Articles
Ayn Rand & Objectivism, Politics & Rights
Esquire’s Dishonest Smear of Aaron Rodgers and Ayn Rand
Tim White January 20, 2022
This article takes for granted that Atlas Shrugged is a bad book and that Aaron Rodgers’s behavior exemplifies its content—without providing a single shred of evidence to support either conclusion.
Arts & Culture, Reviews
Spotlight by Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
Tim White October 29, 2020
Spotlight highlights the tremendous power of objective journalism and the inspiring heroism of the few journalists who remain committed to it.
Ayn Rand & Objectivism, Politics & Rights
To Black Lives Matter, No Lives Matter
Tim White August 13, 2020
We who care about the lives of individuals, political freedom, the rule of law, civilized society, and all that is required for human beings to live peacefully and prosper—we must unpack the package deal that enables BLM to lure people to support its evil aims.
Arts & Culture, Economics, Reviews
Animal Crossing: New Horizons by Nintendo EPD
Tim White August 6, 2020
Animal Crossing: New Horizons serves as a glowing endorsement of both the economic and social aspects of capitalism. Although the game is targeted primarily at children, it’s also hugely popular with adults and is designed to appeal to people of all ages.
Arts & Culture, Reviews
Firefly, created by Joss Whedon
Tim White July 3, 2020
Firefly is not perfectly accurate in its attempts to depict the essential natures of heroism and villainy, but its successes are much more uplifting than its failures are problematic.
Education & Parenting
Kyle Steele on VanDamme Academy’s Response to COVID-19
Tim White July 3, 2020
At VDA, one of the biggest factors influencing student motivation is the fact that the teachers we hire genuinely value the subjects they teach. Our teachers understand why math, grammar, and history are valuable to any human being, regardless of what the future holds.
Arts & Culture, Biographies, Good Living
Be Like Water: The Inspiring Legend of Bruce Lee
Tim White June 18, 2020
Although many martial artists throughout history have sought to build their crafts on a philosophic base, Bruce Lee was one of very few to do so in a generally rational manner.
Politics & Rights
Contra Tim Bray and Co., Amazon Is a Paragon of Virtue
Tim White May 29, 2020
Jeff Bezos is a hero, and the company he’s built unquestionably is among the greatest and most life-enhancing in all of human history. Any claims to the contrary are nothing short of untrue, unfair, and unjust.
Good Living
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life: Five Lessons from Miyamoto Musashi’s ‘Way of the Warrior’
Tim White May 28, 2020
Miyamoto Musashi is on my “top ten” list of people whose ideas have dramatically improved my life. I think that if you read his works and reflect carefully on their myriad implications and applications, you’ll enjoy similar results.
Politics & Rights
Thank You, Cordie Williams, for Standing up for Liberty and Integrity
Tim White May 7, 2020
In an impassioned five-minute speech, Cordie Williams reminded police that not all orders issued to soldiers and law enforcement officials are lawful—and that it is not only illegal but often immoral to obey an unlawful order.
Arts & Culture, Politics & Rights
Kudos to the Cordairs for Standing up to Authoritarians
Tim White April 30, 2020
Please join us in speaking up in defense of the right of the Cordairs—and of everyone else—to run their lives and businesses in accordance with their own rational judgment.
Arts & Culture, Good Living
Twenty More Soul-Fueling Works of Art to Get You Through the Lockdown
Tim White April 30, 2020
Although economic and social restrictions are easing in some parts of the world, most of us aren’t yet seeing the light at the end of the lockdown tunnel. Here are twenty more uplifting, inspiring, and/or philosophically valuable works of art to keep you going for the next month or two.
Arts & Culture, Good Living
Twenty Soul-Fueling Works of Art to Check Out While You’re Stuck at Home
Tim White April 16, 2020
Here are twenty books, movies, TV shows, and video games with notably positive and/or philosophically valuable messages to help you pass the time, keep your mind active, and keep your spiritual fuel tank full.
Arts & Culture, Biographies
Justice for Michael Jackson
Tim White February 20, 2020
Michael Jackson was no child molester. The facts simply don’t support that horrific accusation. His acquittal in 2005 was the only evidence-based and morally defensible outcome.
Arts & Culture, Ayn Rand & Objectivism, Good Living
How Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth Saved My Life
Tim White February 12, 2020
So miserable was my pre-Goodkind, pre-Rand life, that had I not discovered their works, I might be dead today.