Left’s anti free speech mentality is also rooted in Marxism.
Marx didn’t just right about economics, indeed he had an entire philosophy, which in fact influenced his economics and his politics. Leftists have explicitly adopted…
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Ayn Rand on Man of Virtue
There comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win.
Ayn Rand on Statist Rulers
When a statist ruler exhausts his own country’s economy, he attacks his neighbors. It is his only means of postponing internal collapse and prolonging his…
Ayn Rand on Wars
Wars are the second greatest evil that human societies can perpetrate. The first is a dictatorship, the enslavement of their own citizens, which is the…
Yes Elon Musk is a self-made Billionaire.
The facts of Elon Musk’s timeline are fairly simple and widely available. He was born in 1971 in South Africa to a family of modest…
Can minimum wage workers afford a two-bedroom apartment?
As it turns out, yes they actually can, in every state. If you look at whether there is a 2 bedroom apartment within the price…
When the Truth Doesn’t fit, report the opposite.
Reporting on New leaf projects credits a one-time cash payment for $7500 for a successful betterment of lives of a select group of homeless. What…
Yaron Brook(Objectivist) vs Richard Wolff (Communist) Debate
Below is the youtube video of both the full debate and a recap video by Yaron Brook. An excellent performance by Dr. Brook in this…
What is a Rational Education?
By Jeff Frenkel “The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow.” This quote was made by Abraham Lincoln well over…
How to and how not to defend Capitalism
This is a new series I am employing and calling it objectivism through flow charts. We are going to take a look at the below…
Don’t Steal This Article!
Since it appears this article has been removed from the internet, at least I can’t find it, I am republishing it here. Don’t Steal This…
David Friedman’s dinky attempt at philosophy.
David Friedman, Milton’s son, once tried to refute Ayn Rand. What follows is his attempt, which is rather weak on two fronts. First he is…
Donald Hoffman’s Book, Case Against Reality, is just a recitation of Kant.
Though it may sound as though Donald Hoffman’s theory called the interface theory of perception is a novel idea, it is not, it was invented…
Philosophy of Star Trek
Movies and TV shows if not explicitly then implicitly usually expound some sort of philosophies. These philosophies if not consciously then subconsciously are picked up…
The Lefts Voodoo Economics on the Minimum Wage.
Rep. Ilhan Omar and many other left-leaning think tanks and operatives are repeating the talking point that 27 million workers would receive a wage raise…
Ayn Rand, The Tribal Notion of The Common Good
“The tribal notion of “the common good” has served as the moral justification of most social systems—and of all tyrannies—in history. The degree of a…
Ayn Rand, Escape from Socialism
“When one observes the nightmare of the desperate efforts made by hundreds of thousands of people struggling to escape from the socialized countries of Europe,…
Ayn Rand, Socialism’s Economic Collapse
“Instead of prosperity, socialism has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it. The degree of socialization has been the degree of…
Ayn Rand Political/Intellectual Freedom
“Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.”
Ayn Rand, The Battle for Morality
“For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs…
Ayn Rand on people embracing collectivism
“People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted badeconomics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embracedcollectivism. “You cannot reverse cause and effect. And you cannot destroy the causeby…
The Scam of that wasn’t real Communism
Most libertarians or other freedom advocates, when pointing out the failures of nations that have attempted communism and socialism are very aware of the phrase…
The essence of Ayn Rand’s Philosophy.
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, and…
Ayn Rand, Liberals are champions of dictatorship.
“The liberals are afraid to identify their program by its proper name. They advocate every specific step, measure, policy, and principle of statism, but squirm…
Ayn Rand, The Right to Life
“The right to life is the source of all rights—and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are…
Walter Williams on Capitalism
“Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy…
Comparing Covid-19 deaths to Pearl Harbor and 9/11 is extremely ignorant.
If we are talking about just the sheer number of deaths, then yes Covid-19 technically will kill much more people than for instance 9/11. However,…
The Media has crossed from being biased to full propaganda mode.
The media has always leaned left and has always given favorable news coverage to the democrats. However, now they have gone full propaganda mode for…
Ayn Rand, what is Morality?
“What is morality? Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is…
Thomas Sowell on the Constitution.
“The Constitution cannot protect you, if you don’t protect the Constitution with your votes against anyone who violates it. Those government officials who want more…
Ayn Rand, what is freedom?
“But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a…
Ayn Rand on Infectious Disease
“Requiring inoculation against disease is definitely not a job for the government. If it is medically proven that a certain inoculation is desirable, those who…
Statist response to CoronaVirus is a disaster, free markets in healthcare are needed now.
Statists always conjure up some concern about a possible failure of the free market. Free markets in their view need to be perfect, while governments,…
Why it seems like the New Left wants to control all aspects of our lives now.
I recommend watching the video at the bottom where Yaron Brook fully explains what is happening. However, the shorter version is that the left has…
Objectivist ethics outside of the non-initiation of force principle.
Some libertarians hold the non-initiation of force principle as an axiom or like a golden rule. They refer to this principle as the NAP, or…
There is something about this mask-wearing thing that might actually be working.
I am against any government mandates for wearing a mask. I am pro-freedom and pro-liberty, however, there is something about this mask wearing thing when…
Yes, as your common sense may have told you, protests do spread COVID-19.
How does the media, and the fact-checkers get away with propagating the narrative the protests do not spread COVID-19? By very careful phrasing. In essence,…
Social distance warriors, are you absolutely sure you are saving lives and not ending them?
You may have noticed a shift in the narrative of social distancing from flattening the curve, to social distancing to save lives. Social distance warriors…
The Statistic to Monitor from the CDC. Total Deaths per Week.
I think it was reasonable to panic and sound the alarm about the Corona-virus back when all our data was dependent on what happened in…
How South Korea is Winning against CoronaVirus without Draconian measures
Nations that learned their lessons from Sars and Mers are fairing better than the rest of the world who have not experienced a recent outbreak.…
Ayn Rand on the Welfare State
Morally and economically, the welfare state creates an ever accelerating downward pull. Morally, the chance to satisfy demands by force spreads the demands wider and…
ObjectoBot Original: Ayn Rand is a Cult?
Yeah, we brainwash people to think for themselves.
Objectivists
We are radicals for capitalism; we are fighting for that philosophical base which capitalism did not have and without which it was doomed to perish.”
Ayn Rand, no Compromise between Freedom and Control
There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept “just a few controls” is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights…
Ayn Rand, on man’s character
“Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects…
Ayn Rand, on explaining
” The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. “
Ayn Rand on Lobbies and Pressure Groups
“So long as a concept such as “the public interest” (or the “social” or “national” or “international” interest) is regarded as a valid principle to…
Ayn Rand, When a Society is Doomed
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to…
Ayn Rand on Liberals and Conservatives
” The “liberals” are constantly asserting that they represent the future, that they are “new,” “progressive,” “forward-looking,” etc.—and they denounce the “conservatives” as old-fashioned representatives…
The world you desire can be won
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not…
Ayn Rand on Collectivism
“Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.”
Ayn Rand, Government power to crack down on criminals
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t…
Ayn Rand on Chrismas
“The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”—not “Weep…
Ayn Rand, America’s Abundance
“America’s abundance was created… by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes……
Money is the root of evil?
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. “
Ayn Rand, why people embrace collectivism
“People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.”
Ayn Rand on Socialism
“Instead of prosperity, socialism has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it. The degree of socialization has been the degree of…
Ayn Rand on Feminists
Ayn Rand makes funny joke at the expense of modern feminists.
Ayn Rand on Expropriation of Wealth
“If all the wealth spent on personal consumption by all the rich of the United States were expropriated and distributed among our population, it would…
Ayn Rand on Poverty
If concern with poverty and human suffering were the collectivists’ motive, they would have become champions of capitalism long ago.