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" H oward Roark’s bold claim in [the novel] The Fountainhead [is] that “the meaning of life” is “your work. ... "[P]opular culture...

"I n a by now text book example of 'progressive' thinking, [the Herald 's Simon] Wilson suggests that taxing the tech billi...

"S ometimes when I talk and write about the importance of science, technology, and entrepreneurship to human opportunity and living st...

  "I t’s what I couldn’t understand about people for a long time. They have no self. They live within others. They live second-hand. .....

  "R ulers of men are not egoists. They create nothing. They exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subje...

"What you feel in the presence of a thing you admire is just one word - 'Yes.' The affirmation, the acceptance, the sign of ad...

  "It’s what I couldn’t understand about people for a long time. They have no self. They live within others. They live second-hand. L...

  Philosopher Robert Mayhew discusses what he calls “Ayn Rand’s sacred atheism”: At the age of thirteen, Ayn Rand decided she was an ath...

Dictators, would-be dictators and power-lusting second-handers everywhere already know this stuff instinctively. You should too – as intell...

From the extensive NOT PC archives … “A life without passion is not a life - it is merely an existence.”                      - Le...

Today’s final reflection on the celebrations of Easter Week, and their source… Let’s summarise. In Pagan times, Easter was the time in the...

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.” -- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead ...

Sorry, I missed International Women’s Day last week. So here, in a Guest Post by the Cato Institute, is a tribute to three women I guarantee...

It sounds like a joke, but in fact it’s deadly serious. What do a tennis player, two actors and a model-turned TV presenter have in common? ...

The Ayn Rand Institute’s ‘Online Campus’ has just gone live, a major new educational initiative promising “free courses on Ayn Rand and her...

I’m pinching this idea from Craig Ranapia , who pinched it from the “ Shelf Life ” feature from The Spectator ’s Book Blog . 1) What are y...

‎"Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. But suffering is a disease. Should one...

Another guest post from the archives of The Free Radical , this time from tennis ace and all-round fine bloke Chris Lewis , on the sort of ...

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline. Particularly when one can’t see the details. Just th...

IT'S EASTER. GOOD FRIDAY. A day off. A day out. A day to get nailed up and talk about torture . A day to sing hymns, sit in traffic a...