Celebrating the Fourth of July in Bristol
The Declaration of Independence happens to be one of my favorite historical documents, so it is perhaps fitting that I live in a town that wraps its identity in the...
Feb 23,2023
Culture, Leadership, Liberty
Understanding the Trader Principle
At the heart of individualism, both as a philosophy and a tangible basis for societal organization designed to promote happiness, is the idea of self-ownership. Individuals are independent and sovereign...
Feb 15,2023
Culture, Markets & Free Enterprise
Rand on Why Love is Selfish
Love is often platitudinously expressed as being selfless, the notion that one surrenders the essence of themselves to another portrayed as the ultimate act of romance. But love requires mutual...
Feb 10,2023
Rand on Selfishness
The individual–the smallest minority on earth–has the right to live for his own sake. This means not only the freedom to set his own moral code and seek out actions...
Feb 01,2023
Limited Government, Markets & Free Enterprise
Capitalism as a Philosophy System
Capitalism has a philosophical component. It is the only economic system that not only protects an individual’s right of conscience but encourages the development and implementation of an individual’s moral...
Jan 20,2023
Culture, Leadership, Liberty
Ayn Rand and the Value of Creative Expression
Ayn Rand’s objectivist philosophy holds as its highest precept the individual’s ability to live for himself. But this is not, as some critics allege, an invitation to hedonism. Nor is...