Fall 2009

Business schools fail their students by emphasizing altruism rather than the virtues of wealth-creation.With the global economy in tatters, trillions of dollars in wealth destroyed, once mighty corporations bankrupted, and levels of unemployment unseen in decades, much public opprobrium has been leveled at the financiers and c

The debate about today’s increasing push for government expansion focuses exclusively on cost, without evaluating whether such expansion is morally proper.Imagine a negotiation like one commonly seen at an auto dealership.

When stripped of rationalizations, file sharing is clearly an act of theft.

Ayn Rand called her philosophy Objectivism because of the central importance she placed on the concept of objectivity. To be objective, she held, means to consciously commit oneself to seeking the facts as one’s only standard of truth. Being objective does not mean being omniscient—it does not mean one is always correct in one’s understanding. Rather, the concept names the state of mind of someone who is honestly striving to logically comprehend the world around him.