Ayn Rand & Objectivism

In the tradition of Ayn Rand’s essay “For the New Intellectual,” Osborne explains that knowing the history of how we got where we are today can teach us what we need to do to reestablish America’s original spirit—and the freedoms that flow from it.

The Cato Institute recently paid tribute to Carl Barney on the occasion of his retirement from Cato’s board of directors.

If you have a degree related to philosophy, politics, or economics and would love to study Ayn Rand’s ideas in greater depth, you could win a scholarship to do so.

On the nature of intellectual independence, how it differs from independent thinking, and how to cultivate it so you can love your life to the fullest.

In addition to their understanding and support, my parents armed me (perhaps inadvertently) with a powerful tool that helped me to defuse the kinds of worries that often torment young gay people.

Loving Life not only to introduces people to rational egoism; it also helps advocates of the morality to convey its principles more clearly.

Pick up a copy for yourself and share copies with friends. It sheds much light and will generate fruitful conversations.

These are exactly the kind of people TOS seeks to reach—and does reach—people who demand that ideas make rational sense.

Many people subscribe to bad ideas or systems of thought in their youth and later repudiate them and adopt better ones. Some even discover and embrace Objectivism.

You and I have lived in relative freedom. But future generations may or may not. That depends in large part on what we do today. Here’s a way...