In this episode of The Yaron Brook Show, Brook discusses Dennis Prager’s claim that if there’s no God, murder isn’t wrong. Also, he explains why a God-based morality is not only inessential to our civilization, but also detrimental.
Are you excited about Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism? Are you ready to take your knowledge to the next level? Then the Objectivist Academic Center (OAC) is the program for you.
Next week, we bid a fond farewell to our colleague Don Watkins, a fellow at ARI, who’s moving on to a new chapter in his career. I’ve worked with Don for more than eleven years in my role as ARI’s senior editor and trainer. I’ve been pleased to observe, and actively foster, his growth as […]
Is North Korea a threat? And if so, what, if anything should we do about it? Is it, for example, in our rational self-interest to fund South Korea’s military defense? In this episode of The Yaron Brook Show, Brook offers his perspective.
A new article on the value of religious freedom has been published in the Arkansas Law Review by Tara Smith, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and BB&T Chair for the Study of Objectivism. “What Good Is Religious Freedom? Locke, Rand, and the Non-Religious Case for Respecting It” is aimed at accounting for the source, nature and value of religious freedom.
This year, 2017, marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of Atlas Shrugged. Start the celebration with this fascinating commemoration from ARI’s eStore: Ayn Rand and the Atlas Shrugged Years: Reminiscences and Recollections.
In an article that she wrote a few years ago, my colleague Amanda Maxham evinces that the environmentalist movement is not motivated by a science-based concern for man’s life and environment. No, what motivates this ideological movement is the hatred for technology and ultimately for individual freedom.
