What is Objectivism?

Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, advocates reason, independent thinking, rational self-interest, individual rights, and laissez-faire capitalism.

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It is widely believed today that our moral, cultural, and political alternatives are limited either to the ideas of the secular, relativistic left—or to those of the religious, absolutist right—or to some compromised mixture of the two. In other words, one’s ideas are supposedly either extremely “liberal” or extre…