Announcements

If people want to be happy and free, they need philosophic ideas that support these goals and provide guidance to achieve them. We created Objective Standard Institute to teach people about ideas that do.

Welcome to the Summer 2020 issue of The Objective Standard. I hope you enjoy it—and I hope you have the best summer possible amid the lockdowns.

Congratulations to this second round of Active-Mind scholarship recipients! We’re still accepting applications, but act quickly—the deadline to apply is June 10, 2020.

We’ve received a number of outstanding Active-Mind Scholarship applications so far, and more are rolling in every day. Congratulations to the first round of recipients!

Schools across the globe have closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Audible has responded by making a trove of fascinating, educational, and uplifting stories available for free. Among these is Ayn Rand’s masterpiece Atlas Shrugged.

Hopefully, by the end of July, COVID-19 will be under control and substantially behind us. If so, three days of mind-sharpening, soul-fueling social interaction with other life-loving, liberty-loving people will be just what we all need.

TOS-Con 2020 will feature breakout sessions on personal finance, romantic art, safe and effective exercise, and Lindy hop.

Throughout March, TOS editor Craig Biddle will be speaking about Ayn Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism, at events in Europe and Israel.

Join Craig Biddle, Timothy Sandefur, Jon Hersey and our friends from Students For Liberty at their flagship annual conference!

This issue begins TOS’s fifteenth year of publication, and I’ve never been more in love with this journal or what it represents or the work that my team, our writers, and I get to do.