| Type | Title | Author | Date |
| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Enlightenment Thought and Action | | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: The Creation of the Modern World:
The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment By Roy Porter; Locke in America: The Moral Philosophy of the Founding Era By Jerome Huyler; The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World By Jenny Uglow; Self-Help By Samuel Smiles
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| Article | Is High Self-Esteem Bad for You? | Robert Campbell Walter Foddis | 8/1/2003 |
| Description: Recent studies that denigrate the value of self-esteem rely upon methodologies that fail to distinguish between genuine self-esteem and narcissism. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Self-Esteem | | 8/1/2003 |
| Description: The Psychology of Self-Esteem; The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem; Taking Responsibility: Self-Reliance and the Accountable Life; Self-Esteem at Work: How Confident People Make Powerful Companies |
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| Perspectives | Dealing with an Anxious Time | Richard Warshak | 6/23/2003 |
| Description: Tips on dealing with tensions produced in a time or war and terror. |
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| Press Release | Miss Cleo Settles: Press Release | | 11/14/2002 |
| Description: Miss Cleo, the so-called "psychic tarot card reader" accused by the Federal Trade Commission of committing phone fraud, has agreed to cancel $500 million is customer bills to settle her case. |
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| Review | How the Mind's Bureaucracy Works | Walter Donway | 10/1/2002 |
| Description: "You effortlessly delegate most of your thinking and decision making to the masses of cognitive workers busily at work in your mind's basement,' writes David G. Myers in his new book, Intuition. "Only the really important mental tasks reach the executive desk, where your mind works." But that process of bureaucratization has drawbacks as well as advantages. |
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| FAQ | FAQ: Objectivism and Family | Malini Kochhar | 9/3/2002 |
| Description: What sort of relationship should a person have with his family? |
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| Article | In the Same Room with the Dying Light | Charles Tomlinson | 5/31/2002 |
| Description: Charles Tomlinson, a dear friend to TOC and many of its members, reflects on the end of life. |
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| Interview | Richard Warshak Previews Seminar Talk | | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: A clinical professor of psychology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center with twenty years of experience in treating trauma victims, Richard Warshak will present Heroes, Trauma, and Children to the 2002 TOC summer seminar |
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| Article | Faith, Reason, and the Good Life | Ken Livingston | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: The media frequently announce studies that purport to show a connection between religiosity and happiness. Ken Livingston, a professor in the department of psychology at Vassar College, examines the data closely and comes up with some surprising hypotheses. |
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| Article | The Dying of the Light | Richard Speer | 3/31/2002 |
| Description: After September 11, many Americans began to think more seriously about their own mortality. Richard Speer decided to find out how Objectivists in particular faced the issue of death. |
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| Op-ed | Spring is a time for personal renewal | Edward Hudgins | 3/28/2002 |
| Description: Spring is a time for personal renewal. |
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| Review | Taming the Animal Within | Damian Moskovitz | 11/9/2001 |
| Description: Damian Moskovitz, a recent Harvard University graduate, reviews Mean Genes. Though studying evolutionary psychology to help us improve ourselves is a useful tool, says Moskovitz, the two researchers who wrote this book commit bad philosophy and sloppy science. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Evolutionary Psychology | | 11/1/2001 |
| Description: Suggested Readings on Evolutionary Psychology |
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| Op-ed | Finding a personal response to the terrorist attacks | Shawn E. Klein | 10/9/2001 |
| Description: Finding a personal response to the terrorist attacks
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| Commentary | Self-Judgment Days | Shawn E. Klein | 9/1/2001 |
| Description: Shawn E. Klein argues that the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur (September 18th and 27th this year) fulfill rational needs that Objectivists should find ways of fulfilling in their own lives; the need for ritual and remembrance, the need for moral self-evaluation, and the need to seek forgiveness and make reparations. |
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| Review | Chicken Soup for the Objectivist Soul? | Roger Donway | 2/1/2000 |
| Description: A brief review of the "Chicken Soup" line of books. |
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| Letters | Letters: Politics and Personal Happiness (Dec 1999) | | 12/1/1999 |
| Description: Letters in response to Patrick Stephens' article, 'You Can Go Your Own Way', where he claims that current electoral politics have little effects on one's personal life. |
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| Article | The Habit of Hope | Marsha Enright | 12/1/1999 |
| Description: An excerpt from Marsha Enright's lecture The Habit of Hope. |
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| Review | Self-Help: Egotists and Egoists | Roger Donway | 12/1/1999 |
| Description: While a lot of the self-help movement is garbage, a substantial segment of the movement is genuinely concerned to help people improve their personal efficacy and sense of self-worth. Roger Donway reviews three works that are more or less egoistic in their orientation. |
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| Review | Self-Help: The Classics | Roger Donway | 10/1/1999 |
| Description: A consideration of three classic works in the Self-Help genre. |
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| Article | A Peripatetic Career | Patricia Speer | 10/1/1999 |
| Description: A consideration of Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett Packard |
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| Article | The Fioretti of Self-Fulfillment | Roger Donway | 8/1/1999 |
| Description: Objectivists need to recognize and praise the lives and deeds that exemplify their philosophy's values and virtues. |
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| Perspectives | Hope | David Kelley | 1/1/1999 |
| Description: A philosophical defense of hope and its expression in Ayn Rand's novels |
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| Article | Treasure Hunting for Children's Books | Mary Heinking | 1/1/1999 |
| Description: Mary Heinking, who schools her seven-year-old daughter at home, sets forth five criteria by which to choose books for the young, shows how to apply these criteria, and specifically mentions several dozen recommended books. |
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| Review | Sleepers, Awake! | Carolyn Ray | 6/1/1998 |
| Description: A review of The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life by Nathaniel Branden |
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| Excerpt | God Help Me! | George Walsh | 6/1/1997 |
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| Excerpt | Objectivism and Self-Acceptance | Nathaniel Branden | 2/1/1997 |
| Description: Excerpts from a lecture given by Nathaniel Branden at the 1996 IOS Summer Seminar about Objectivism and Self-Acceptance. |
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| Review | To Awaken The Hero Within | Kenneth Livingston | 3/1/1994 |
| Description: A review of The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden |
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| Audio | On Loving One's Life | Nathaniel Branden | |
Description: Audio excerpt. Inherent in the Objectivist ethics is a vision of human beings who are deeply passionate about their lives. This is the dominant characteristic of the heroes and heroines of Ayn Rand's novels, who exemplify the Objectivist ethics and sense of life, in action. Citing Rand and examples from his own life and work, Dr. Branden shows how the Objectivist vision abounds with affirmations to loving one's life, which are grounded in a dedication to values—to the value of life itself, and to the values that make up life and make it worth living.
Buy the CD at The Objectivism Store |
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| Audio | The Psychology of Belief: Why Religion Seems to Work | Kenneth Livingston | |
Description: Audio Excerpt. Dr. Kenneth Livingston explains what we can learn from religion about the psychology of happiness and well being.
Buy the audiotape at The Objectivism Store |
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| Audio | Rational Rituals, or 'Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain' | Timothy Madigan | |
Description: Audio Excerpt. Dr. Madigan discusses the experience of the humanist movement in creating secular alternatives to religious practices—especially when they're based on reason rather than faith.
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| Audio | Inner Life | Allan Blumenthal | |
Description: Audio Excerpt. Allan Blumenthal shows how the heightened awareness of inner experience enriches the enjoyment of life.
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| Audio | The Value-Seeking Personality | Robert James Bidinotto | |
Description: Audio Excerpt. Mr. Bidinotto offers an inspiring and often poignant personal account of what it means, psychologically and ethically, to be value-focused in our work, in our love, and in our social interactions.
Buy the audiotape at The Objectivism Store |
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