Happy Rand’s Day
Happy Rand’s Day! It is the 119th anniversary of the birth of Ayn Rand, the greatest novelist in world literature, the second most outstanding philosopher after Aristotle, and the leading modern figure in the fight for a culture of reason and a politics of...Evil: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Iniquity
It is a new year. It is finally time for me to turn to the project I have long promised: to write a book on the nature of evil. Given the catastrophic destruction wrought by evil men both historically and currently, it is astonishing how little has been written on...
Dominique Francon: Ayn Rand’s Profoundly Misunderstood Heroine
I fell in love with Dominique Francon when I was sixteen years old. Her idealism–her impassioned love for man at his highest and best–even more than her beauty and trenchant intelligence captured my spirit. To this day, she is my favorite literary heroine....
Is The Left Still More Evil than Religious Conservatives?
In a follow-up to The Left is Vastly More Evil than Religious Conservatives, Andrew Bernstein observes that, “now that some conservatives seek to execute a woman for having an abortion, Objectivist friends of mine ask me: Do you still think that leftists are...
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
Catherine Nixey’s book “The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World” is very good. First, it shows that the Roman persecution of Christians, although real, has been significantly exaggerated by Christian writers. Second and more important, it...Preorder: The Truth About Climate Change
Is nature’s inherent dynamism responsible for the climate change of our era? Or are the cause(s) man-made? Climate change is real and persistent. Even a brief study of the recent past illustrates this, but it becomes all the more certain when one broadens the scope to...
Preorder: The Philosophic Basis of a Woman’s Right to Abortion By Andrew Bernstein
The Right to Abortion as an Application of Individual Rights Both sides in the abortion debate invoke the principle of “rights.” Anti-abortionists claim to uphold a “right to life.” Pro-choice advocates speak of a woman’s “right to...
The Left is Vastly More Evil than Religious Conservatives
Andrew Bernstein’s latest essay, The Left is Vastly More Evil than Religious Conservatives, was recently published in Capitalism Magazine. Religion In April 2011, I traveled by car along I-70 in Kansas en route to Manhattan to give a talk for the Ayn Rand...
Leftist Supremacy, Not White Supremacy, is the Gravest Threat to Black Lives
Andrew Bernstein Black lives have long been endangered in this country. Now, with rioters burning down parts of many U.S. cities, ostensibly in support of black lives, it behooves us to accurately answer several questions: 1. Is traditional racism, brutal...Support Andrew Bernstein on Patreon!
