Chip J

Chip J is a contributing writer to Capitalism Magazine. You can follow him on X at @ChipActual.

The Self Under Siege: What Ayn Rand’s Epic Novel “The Fountainhead” Shows Us About the Societies We Build

Ayn Rand built five main characters in The Fountainhead who function as psychological archetypes, but her real achievement was more precise than that. She mapped five distinct textures of subjective experience that emerge from a single upstream choice: where does the self live?

When Veterans Betray the Chain of Command

When Veterans Betray the Chain of Command

The chain of command isn’t just military protocol—it’s the constitutional architecture that keeps American democracy from sliding into chaos. Six Democratic members of Congress just attacked it.

The Glee of the Mob: On the Murder of Discourse Itself

The Glee of the Mob: On the Murder of Discourse Itself

There are few spectacles more repugnant to the civilized mind than the sight of educated adults celebrating an assassination. Yet this is precisely what we witnessed in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder at Utah Valley University.

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