Join The Atlas Society for a special webinar discussion with Senior Scholar, Dr. Stephen Hicks, and Senior Fellow, Robert Tracinski, on Wednesday, May 25 @ 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET where they will cover how we should understand art and the process of creation along with an Objectivist perspective on current events surrounding the recent Buffalo shooter and his […]

Contrast these two approaches to moral education: Text versions of the quotations above: “The essence of obedience is that a person comes to view himself as the instrument for carrying out another person’s wishes, and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.” (Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority, emphasis added) “Above all

On Wednesday at 4 p.m. Central, columnist Rob Tracinski and I will discuss those topics, followed by a Q&A, as part of TAS’s Current Events series. Register here.

Nietzsche has a reputation for being an individualist. But note this from his early The Birth of Tragedy: “the subject—the striving individual bent on furthering his egoistic purposes—can be thought of only as the enemy of art, never its source.” Nietzsche’s sometimes-yes-sometimes-not individualism is complicated. For more, check out my “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand”

I was interviewed by philosopher Michael Robillard, Ph.D.. We covered six questions: 1.) Can you tell us a bit about who you are, as well as your academic background? Did you always want to be or envision yourself as a public intellectual? 2.) In your influential work, Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to