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Who Suffers the Most from a Morality Concerned with Suffering?
Just a few short months after North Carolinian voters leaned towards the right, retaining a Republican majority in their General Assembly and replacing Democratic Governor Bev Purdue with Republican...
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How Public Science Hinders Innovation
Since March 1st, when the 2013 budget sequestration began, many political pundits have decried the “inevitable” and “disastrous” effects of cuts on one special interest group or another. Recent...
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Marriage IS for You: A Response to Seth Adam Smith
In his viral blog piece “Marriage Isn’t For You,” Seth Adam Smith proposes that the best kind of love is selfless. When he began to doubt whether he should marry his girlfriend of many years, Smith...
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The Character Experiment: How Cultivating Moral Virtue Will Strengthen the...
Today’s generation of college students grew up on the notion that if they did well in school and got a college degree, good things were ahead. But recent news darkens this outlook. These days,...
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“Do What You Love” Inspires Meaningful Work in a Meaningful Life
In his famed 2005 Stanford University commencement address, the late Steve Jobs imparted valuable advice to the hopeful eyes staring up at him: “You’ve got to find what you love. . . . Your work is...
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Permission Slips are Not Rights: How Hobby Lobby’s Victory Cheapens the Right...
This summer, the Supreme Court’s decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby was the subject of much public controversy and discussion. In that case, employer Hobby Lobby challenged provisions of the...
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Fostering a Culture of Consent: How to Cultivate Fundamental Opposition to Rape
In recent years, the issue of sexual assault—especially on college campuses—has commanded heightened public attention. Despite a 58% reduction in rape rates across all age groups between 1995 and...
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Why Selfish Princeton Students Have No Reason to “Give Back”
Writing for The Daily Princetonian, Freshman Coy Ozias recently declared: “I’m a selfish person.” The piece, quite aptly titled “The Selfishness of Success,” came out in support of selfish living....
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Legislative Paternalism: How Toxic Laws Endanger Police and Civilians Alike
Less than a year since the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, police officers in this country are once again under national fire. In the wake of those earlier tragedies—which sparked destructive...
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Ayn Rand Knew that “Virtue is the Currency of Love”
Ayn Rand, author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, was a woman of strong, radical convictions, whose philosophy encompassed all areas of life. As with any intellectual of her stature, along with...
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Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System: An Interview with Tara Smith
Dr. Tara Smith is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Moral Rights and Political Freedom, Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of...
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From Homelessness to Happiness: The Story of Tom Richardson’s Life-Changing Idea
Walking the streets of downtown Raleigh, Tom Richardson saw a man wearing a black t-shirt with the word “really” displayed in white letters. A few blocks later, a woman wearing a light green t-shirt...
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Goal-Setting with Olympic Gold Medalist Natalie Coughlin
Natalie Coughlin is a professional competitive swimmer, and one of the most decorated athletes in the history of American swimming. She has won a total of sixty medals in major international...
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STRIVECon Recap: “Value Creation in Law” with Steve Simpson, Paul Beard, and...
From November 6th-8th, enterprising students from across the country (and even beyond) gathered in Atlanta, Georgia, for STRIVE’s annual student conference. At this year’s event, on “The Morality of...
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Let’s Trade: Embracing a Brighter Approach to Campus Discourse
Late last semester, protests by disaffected student groups at the University of Missouri and Yale over various forms of perceived discrimination sparked a national conversation on campus culture....
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Reflections on Ayn Rand and Campus Culture: An Interview with Greg Salmieri...
Dr. Greg Salmieri holds a fellowship in philosophy at the Anthem Foundation and currently teaches at Rutgers University. His published work focuses on Aristotle’s epistemology and ethics and Ayn Rand’s...
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Reflections on Ayn Rand and Campus Culture: An Interview with Greg Salmieri...
Dr. Greg Salmieri holds a fellowship in philosophy at the Anthem Foundation and currently teaches at Rutgers University. His published work focuses on Aristotle’s epistemology and ethics and Ayn Rand’s...
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Is This a Cult? A Personal Reflection on the Leven Foundation Student...
Last semester, enterprising students from across the country and beyond gathered in Atlanta, Georgia, for the Leven Foundation Student Conference on “The Morality of Value-Creation and Trade,”...
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Announcing #CapitalistAndProud: A National Campus Initiative
The rise of Bernie Sanders along with some astounding new data suggest that young people today hold an increasingly favorable view of socialism. Although campus publications across the country appear...
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Free Speech, Politics, and the Trump Controversy: An Interview with Steve...
Steve Simpson is the director of legal studies at the Ayn Rand Institute. A former constitutional litigator for the Institute for Justice, Simpson has litigated major constitutional cases in courts...
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