Sociobiology and Altruism
Sociobiology is the doctrine that we have fundamental behaviors and psychological characteristics that are explained by the incentives
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Sociobiology is the doctrine that we have fundamental behaviors and psychological characteristics that are explained by the incentives
At the time when Ayn Rand wrote most of her non-fiction (the 1960s), half the world’s population was under avowedly Communist or Socialist
If only Progressivism could be a genus of Objectivism! But, alas, no.The Progressive movement was originally an intellectual and political
Ayn Rand indeed regarded Anna Karenina as her least favorite novel. She presented her negative analysis of Anna Karenina in the article...
Morally there is a kind of symmetry between the two types of reparations cases: In general, there is no justice in blaming a group for the
Objectivism is totally opposed to racism. It is an individualist philosophy, and it holds that all people, first and foremost, should be....
Every initial property rights claim involves seizure of property, in a sense. As no property rights exist before property rights are founded
Objectivism does not recognize "parapsychological phenomena." As far as I know, there is no reliable evidence for any of them. Some forms...
"The needy" come in two classes: those who are unable to care for themselves, and those who are able. Objectivism holds that it is not...
November 1999 -- Objectivists too often reduce the life and achievement of James J. Hill to a single debating point: He built a
Larry Ribstein has a review of the anti-capitalist film Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. And here is his article on the original Wall
One of the strangest stories in English literature is the rise and fall of Joseph Addison’s Cato, which was first performed in London in....
America has been the land of the individual, and most Americans have thought of themselves as individualists. We still speak favorably of...
Whoever makes something, having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process…is entitled to it. The situation is no
Richard Henry Tawney (1880–1962) was a British historian who spent most of his career at the London School of Economics. He wrote widely on
March 2006 -- Some of the most frightening images from Nazi Germany can be seen in Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will, the cinematic...
“Men and women are different,” says a frustrated soldier to a young girl who’s been questioning his authority in Jafar Panahi’s lighthearted
BOOK REVIEW: Edward W. Younkins, Editor, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion (Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot
Robert Thurman has always had a problem with his temper, he tells us in Anger, the fifth in a series of books about the seven deadly sins...
Winter 2005 -- I don’t watch TV—we’ve lived more than fifteen years without cable—and I’m not a big fan of film. My personal escape is