Objectivism is the philosophy of rational individualism founded by Ayn Rand (1905-82). In novels such as The Fountainhead and Atlas
長い間、モダンとポストモダンの芸術の批評家たちは、「気持ち悪くないか」という戦略に頼ってきました。その戦略とは、...
Just as there is much to celebrate in the life of John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), so is there much to loathe in the muckrakers' treatment o
Frank Quattrone, the star investment banker of the dot-com era, was convicted in federal court on two counts of obstructing justice and....
A Gallup poll taken in May of 2003 found that only 3 percent of Americans believe animals do not need much legal protection. Fully 71 percen
Owen Flanagan (pictured here) is a prominent philosopher of mind who exemplifies the trend in his profession of paying closer attention to..
On July 4th, we celebrate the creation of the United States of America. But today, Americans seem more divided than at any time in recent...
手つかずの自然はそれ自体で本質的な価値があるとし、人間にはその価値を認めないという哲学は、実際にはどのような意味を持つのだろうか。
As Henry Steele Commager noted in The Empire of Reason: "It was Americans who not only embraced the body of Enlightenment principles, but...
Many of the towering figures of the Industrial Revolution could well be described as "the compleat producer." Richard Arkwright, for example
In 1956, an extraordinary three-year agreement on cooperation was signed by the Department of Economics at the Chicago University and the...
For more than thirty years, promoting the development of higher self-esteem has been a major goal for clinical psychologists and educators..
In 1987, during an in-depth interview, Barbara Walters pointedly asked actor Sean Connery why he chose to play golf only with men. It was...
アトラス・シュラッグド』の中で、ロバート・スタドラー博士は、ジョン・ガルトのような天才が「大きな革命を起こした」なんて「とんでもない」と思っています。
There are museums of art, science, and natural history in major cities throughout the world. New York City alone has dozens of art museums,
As human beings, we fear chaos and confusion and fight against them. We appreciate order. We celebrate reason, logic, and science because...
The structure of our federal system can be explained in major part by the final two provisions of our Bill of Rights, the Ninth and Tenth
All of her heroes grew from Cyrus, the hero of that children's story she loved about the British soldier in India [The Mysterious Valley]...