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“You can’t handle the truth!” That’s the federal government’s latest message to Americans seeking to learn the content of their own DNA.
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In an article appearing in UC Berkeley’s Daily Californian, Andrew Glidden describes the scope of the absurdity of our nation’s current environmental regulatory system, from its recent...
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Writing in the Texas Tech Daily Toreador Chris Leal asks us to ponder a puzzle:
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Congratulations to Keith Yost, a columnist at The Tech of MIT, who recently put the editors of the paper to shame, by saying “I am Spartacus!” and publishing a statement of support...
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What’s more important – your work or your relationships? That’s the question posed by David Brooks in his op-ed in the New York Times. He references the case of Sandra Bullock, whose...
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Lamenting BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Mark Costigan of the University of Oregon’s Daily Herald calls for an end to all offshore drilling. Faced with the objection that this...

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The Undercurrent is a campus newspaper. It is distributed at college campuses and communities across the country. We aim to release a print edition at least once per semester, and in the interim, we regularly post additional articles, blog entries, and campus media response reports regularly to this website.

The Undercurrent's cultural commentary is based on Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism. Objectivism, which animates Ayn Rand's fiction, is a systematic philosophy of life.

It holds that the universe is orderly and comprehensible, that man survives by reason, that his life and happiness comprise his highest moral purpose, and that he flourishes only in a society that protects his individual rights.

Read more about Ayn Rand's ideas on the importance of philosophy, or browse some seminal essays and articles on Objectivism.