The Case Against Slavery Reparations
Good news: I completed an essay titled: “The Case Against Slavery Reparations.” It is a hard-hitting defense of individual rights against the arrant collectivism of the assertion that individual members of a given race are morally responsible for the crimes of their...
“Race Blind” Individualism is the Solution to Antisemitism
Jew hatred is the form of racism that never dies. This is because it sits at the intersection of collectivism and envy. If we see society in terms of groups, not individuals, and if we envy those who work hard to achieve education and career success, then Jew hatred...
Great Islamic Thinkers Versus Islam
In a year or two, I will publish a collection of my essays. This one, “Great Islamic Thinkers Versus Islam,” will definitely be included. It was published in the Winter 2012 issue of “The Objective Standard” and it describes the achievements of...
1915
The Turks butchered between 1.0 and 1.5 million innocent Armenian civilians and, to this day, 109 years later, deny culpability. The Armenian Genocide was real and horrific. We must 1. Never forget and 2. embrace and promulgate the principle of inalienable individual...
King Lear
I returned to my favorite field—Literature—to re-read Shakespeare’s exquisitely brutal tragedy, “King Lear”. Two purposes here. One is an end in itself—to savor a great work of literary art. The other is that in the next year or so I intend to write...
Barbara Stanwyck
To me, the most versatile and the most underrated actress in film. Not the most beautiful actress in her day—Hedy Lamarr and Rita Hayworth were. And perhaps in some roles Katherine Hepburn and Bette Davis were superior. And nobody was as radiant as Ingrid Bergman. But...
Capitalism Unbound Now in Hebrew
My book, “Capitalism Unbound”, has been translated into Hebrew and will be published in Israel. It presents a succinct and powerful case for capitalism. This book has been translated into Spanish and published in Guatemala—and into Bulgarian and published in...
Tolstoy: “The Death of Ivan Ilych”, “The Kreutzer Sonata”, and “Master and Man”
In my copious spare time, I continue to immerse myself in my favorite field—literature. Most recently: Tolstoy. I am still not man enough to make it through “War and Peace”. I have tried at three separate stages of my life and I have not yet made it past...
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...Support Andrew Bernstein on Patreon!
