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O. Henry: Austin’s Storyteller and America’s Spirit by Shoshana Milgram

Posted February 2, 202200:59:17

“More than any other author,” Ayn Rand wrote, O. Henry represents “the expectation of finding something wonderful around all of life’s corners.”...

The Anatomists: In Defiance of Man and God by Laura Mazer

Posted January 26, 202201:02:04

An understanding of human anatomy makes possible modern medicine, surgery and even representational art. But the knowledge is hard-fought: the story...

The Nature of Evil by Gregory Salmieri

Posted January 19, 202201:31:27

A theme in Ayn Rand’s fiction is that the failure to understand evil is a source of error and unhappiness for good people. Drawing on the Objectivist...

Philosophy and Energy by Alex Epstein

Posted January 12, 2022

Today, the energy industry—the industry that powers every other industry—is under unprecedented attack, with widespread calls to eliminate fossil...

All Regulation is Over-Regulation by Harry Binswanger

Posted January 5, 202201:29:14

Conservatives complain about “over-regulation,” but all governmental regulation—regulation as such—is destructive and evil. Ayn Rand wrote that...