There is a peculiar trick that language plays on us. Add an adjective to a noun and you can destroy the noun entirely. “Social justice” does to justice what “people’s republic” does to republic. It negates it while wearing its clothes. Ayn Rand understood this better than most. She called the concept of social justice […]
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There was a time when the self made individual was the protagonist of Western civilization. The person who started with nothing, built something, and refused to apologize for it. That person was celebrated in novels, held up in political speeches, and Christ-like in the American imagination. Somewhere along the way, the script flipped. The self
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There is a peculiar kind of cruelty that disguises itself as compassion. It shows up in boardrooms and legislatures, in university policies and dinner table arguments. It says: everyone should end up in the same place, regardless of what they did to get there. It sounds generous. It sounds humane. And according to Ayn Rand,
There is a strange new sin spreading through universities, corporate boardrooms, and social media feeds. It is not violence. It is not hatred. It is not even rudeness. The sin is thinking clearly. Somewhere in the last two decades, logic became offensive. Not just unpopular or unfashionable, but genuinely threatening. To ask someone for evidence
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There is a particular kind of discomfort that arrives when someone says profit is good. Not useful. Not necessary. Good. The word lands like a brick through a stained glass window. We have been trained, culturally and emotionally, to treat profit with suspicion. It is the thing corporations chase at the expense of rivers and
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Most people know Ayn Rand as the woman who made selfishness sound like a good thing. Fewer know that her ideas, controversial as they remain, offer something genuinely useful for anyone trying to build something from nothing. You don’t have to worship at the altar of Atlas Shrugged to extract practical wisdom from her work.
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