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Contrary to common belief, philosophy is not a useless field for academics in an ivory tower, detached from reality. Approached rationally, its principles are the indispensable foundation an...
Governments are taking unprecedented measures to restrict travel and shut down businesses in order to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus....
With the stock market now crashing and many people facing unemployment in the wake of the ongoing pandemic, governments are reacting with a...
Most people think about morality as a set of commandments handed down by a god. Others believe we can get moral guidance by consulting our o...
The COVID-19 pandemic and the responses to it from both business and government are now dominating the headlines and overwhelming our lives....
What explains the major developments and trends that have shaped our world through the ages? Human history is complex and, obviously, there...
Most people believe that society has a moral obligation toward its poor and its needy—and that something must be done, politically, to help...
Many people believe that privilege—the idea that special rights or advantages are available only to a particular person or group—is a proble...
Abortion is an important issue consistently in the public discourse. What makes it so persistent? Should there be any legal limit on abortio...
On the issue of legal, non-medical drugs, there are at least two common perspectives at odds in our culture today: one camp contends that so...
Israel is talked about often in the media, but many Americans don’t understand why we are so preoccupied with this country. Often Israel is...
Think about celebrities who tweet about their politics all the time, or think about companies who want you to buy their products because the...
In ethics, the question “Who ultimately decides what is morally right or wrong?” is commonly asked. Notice that in other areas of life there...
Every year droves of people make New Year’s resolutions, but polls suggest that four out of five people fail to keep them. One report even f...
People are at odds with one another all the time (we have wars, personal animosities, etc.) and it is generally assumed that people’s intere...
At the turn of the millennium, two different polls were held. The question was: What’s the best English-language novel of the twentieth cent...
If you want to be considered a caring person, you are expected to offer a “no-judgement-zone.” And you are supposed to believe that it’s an...
There’s a new campaign slogan among Democratic politicians: “Abolish Billionaires.” Nobody can honestly deserve a billion dollars, they clai...
Many people have at least heard of a few of history’s great philosophers. Names like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle—they ring a bell and maybe s...
We live in an age in which fabricated stories pulse through social media, fashionable startup companies are founded on swindles and, of cour...
Independence is the theme of Ayn Rand’s great novel The Fountainhead. Howard Roark, the novel’s hero, is the epitome of independence. He spe...
Have you ever wondered what Ayn Rand’s philosophy—which she called Objectivism—is all about? Why is she such a controversial figure with mil...
The question of whether there is or is not a God is certainly one of life’s big questions, and it’s one that almost all of us have had to gr...
When we describe someone as a person of principle, it’s often meant as a compliment. We mean that the person has a solid moral compass and t...
Maybe you’ve heard of something called “effective altruism”? It’s a recent movement that encourages people to do research to figure out the...
Compromise is widely seen as essential to success in life. To have healthy, meaningful relationships, we’re advised to find a middle-ground....
Register for the next live webinar: http://courses.aynrand.org/webinars/register Is free will an illusion? Today, most people would answer y...
The question “Isn’t Everybody Selfish?” is often asked cynically by people who think selfishness is a bad thing and that it’s impossible to...
Join special guest Harry Binswanger for this entry in the series of Ayn Rand Institute webinars on Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism and...
Human beings desperately need guidance in life, but where should we seek this guidance? Should we seek it in what we can observe with our ow...
If there is one thing that almost everyone agrees on today, it’s that selfishness is bad. From day one, we’ve been told, “don’t be selfish”...
All of us have experienced clashes between our thinking and our feelings—between our “head” and our “heart.” The question we seem to face, i...
What makes you who you are? Is it nature or nurture—or a bit of both? Or does that very way of framing the question leave out something very...
Is having self-esteem a good thing? Most people will say it’s part of living a good life. And we all know someone who lives with gnawing sel...
Whether it’s the legality of abortion, the desirability of free speech, the power of social media companies, or the appropriateness of a pre...
Conflicts among priorities and values, big or small, come up in relationships all the time. Figuring out how to navigate them is critical to...