New Articles on Objectivism

This page provides links to scholarly articles that are not available online elsewhere. Many of the works are also in print and appear by permission: for best reading, buy the print version. 
 
David Kelley

"Choosing Life" (PDF version here).
"My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists—and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds from these." (Atlas Shrugged, 944) In these words, in Atlas Shrugged, John Galt announces the new morality that Ayn Rand offered to the world. This essay discusses the nature of this choice to live: is its role in the moral philosophy of Objectivism and in our actual lives as individuals. 

William R Thomas

“Objectivism Against Anarchy" (manuscript version, PDF). Printed in Long, Roderick and Tibor Machan (eds.). Anarchism/Minarchism (Ashgate 2008). 39-57.

See the Molinari Society's discussion papers on Thomas's essay and others in the volume, from the 2008 American Philosophical Association Eastern Division authors-meet-critics session.