Commentary - America's Future

By Marcos Lopez • Feb 27,2023 Culture, Liberty, Markets & Free Enterprise

How I Discovered Ayn Rand

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “There are two novels that can change a bookish 14-year-old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a...

By Ericka Andersen • Feb 24,2023 Culture, Leadership

A Better Way to Solve Childhood Obesity & Other Ills

There’s a new movement out there to slap pills and surgeries onto kids who are dealing with obesity. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published new guidelines recently and they...

By Katherine Revello • 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...

By Justin Tucker • Feb 22,2023

Rand’s 1949 “The Fountainhead” Adaptation is a Curious Viewing

Books are almost always better than movie adaptations. Some films like To Kill a Mockingbird and 1984 are terrific adaptations but are still inferior to the source material. Other adaptations,...

By Katherine Revello • 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...

By Caleb Larson • Feb 14,2023

Online Manipulation By Bots Is Harmful No Matter The Source

Bots are filling up the internet at an alarming rate. Online conversations, trending topics, and political narratives are increasingly being influenced by bots and their creators. Mainstream news sources report...