A nation’s culture is the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men, which their fellow-citizens have accepted in whole or in part, and which have influenced the nation’s way of life. Since a culture is a complex battleground of different ideas and influences, to speak of a ‘culture’ is to speak only of the dominant ideas, always allowing for the existence of dissenters and exceptions. — AYN RAND
In her pamphlet, Textbook of Americanism, Ayn Rand wrote that “[a]n individualist is a man who says: “I will not run anyone’s life—nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone—nor sacrifice anyone to myself.”
Rachel Maddow monetizes liberal dread. Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens monetize your dread.
The Iranian people celebrating Israel and America weren’t just rejecting the Ayatollah. They were rejecting the entire architecture of ideological capture—the architecture the Western Left has been building at home.
That innovative black Americans flourished in late 19th- and early 20th-century America is a little-known part of our Capitalist heritage.
What separates societies that generate knowledge from those that suppress it, and what does this mean for our future?
The Left is at war with America. The Left is at war with the West. The Left is at war with the essential principles of Western Civilization.
Ultimate causation lies in ideas: why did some societies exploit their geographic advantages and others didn’t, and why did some overcome geographic disadvantages? Geography can’t answer those questions, but knowledge creation can.
Geography alone can’t explain why some isolated, resource-poor societies like Iceland thrived while others like Easter Island collapsed.
While most people probably think of school choice as driven by conservatives who want education different from “woke” public schools, progressives need choice, too.
ABC News reported that “in California alone, nearly a third of all community college applicants in 2024 were identified as fraudulent.”
Last September, the Idaho teachers’ unions and other opponents of education choice filed a lawsuit to halt the tax credit program.
America’s Early Presidents Were Admirable Men of Principle– Let us Hope we can Find More Like Them
Richard Dawkins coined “meme” in 1976 to describe units of cultural transmission—ideas that replicate like genes.
Love is far too precious to be offered indiscriminately. It is above all in the area of love that egalitarianism ought to be repudiated. Love represents an exalted exchange–a spiritual exchange–between two people, for the purpose of mutual benefit.
Review of “Masculine Power, Feminine Beauty: The Volitional, Objective Basis for Heterosexuality in Romantic Love and Marriage” by Ronald Pisaturo
A few historical and inconvenient notes left on the cutting room floor during Black History Month.
As Ayn Rand put it, a value is something you act to gain or keep. A desire without action then is just a wish.
What conquest built justified the conquest—not because the process was clean, but because the result expanded human freedom and flourishing beyond what existed before.
What is called Black History Month might more accurately be called “the sins of white people” month.
Drag queens are the ultimate symbol of disrespect for women.
Ayn Rand left a legacy in defense of reason and freedom that serves as a guidepost for the American spirit–especially pertinent today when America and what it stands for are under assault.
Defenders call this an attack on press freedom, an authoritarian assault on the First Amendment. They’re wrong. Lemon didn’t report a crime. He committed one.
February 2nd is the birthday of Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Ayn Rand developed and defended Objectivism, a philosophy that advocates “rational selfishness.”
This video of America’s greatest philosopher, Ayn Rand, might be the most important interview you have ever watched.
Peikoff offers personal insights into the real Ayn Rand—the thinker, the artist, the teacher, the passionate valuer of the best within man.
Literature—my favorite field. Heroism—my favorite topic.
It was in 2015 that the famed creator of the Dilbert cartoon first started speculating that Donald Trump had what it takes to become president. For holding this view, and then becoming ever more open about his support of Trump, Adams lost everything.
Hamilton did not as treasury secretary implement, or espouse, any system of protective tariffs or bounties.
A Rebel in Eden: The War Between Individualism and Environmentalism, by Robert Bidinotto, explains the philosophic foundations of the modern political movement, theories that, in some cases, go back centuries.
If you want your New Year’s resolutions to be completed, take the steps needed to really commit to it.
Your life is in your own hands.
If seriously embraced, a blood and dirt conception of Americanness would destroy one of the most essential elements that make this country so successful and perhaps even its existence.