| Type | Title | Author | Date |
| Article | Honoring Ayn Rand | | 12/1/2004 |
| Description: Sixteen individuals—from the world of politics to the world of the academy, from the corporation to the think thank—pay homage to the philosopher and novelist on the one-hundredth anniversary of her birth. |
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| Article | Why Art Became Ugly | Stephen Hicks | 9/1/2004 |
| Description: Stephen Hicks shows that approximately a hundred years ago artists started down a road that has led them step by step to today's aesthetic dead-end. Hicks outlines the postmodern philosophy that underlies modern art, reviews famous pieces, and ends with a call for a new aesthetic that will be attuned to the realities of the twenty-first century. |
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| Center News | Explaining Postmodernism published! | | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Stephen Hicks’s book Explaining Postmodernism, written while a senior fellow at The Objectivist Center, has been published by Scholargy. The book traces postmodernism from its roots in Rousseau and Kant through its current adherents, such as Foucault and Rorty. |
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| Interview | An Interview with Charles Murray | David Kelley | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: David Kelley talks with the author of Human Accomplishment about his work’s philosophical premises and arguments, including the objectivity of excellence and the significance of expert opinion. They discuss as well the cultural history of the modern world and what it says about the driving forces underlying creativity. |
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| Review | What Hath Man Wrought! | William Thomas | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: Charles Murray’s Human Accomplishment is a study of mankind’s remarkable discoveries and creations. Covering 2,750 years, from 800 B.C. to 1950, it employs anecdote and argument to awaken “a sense of wonder” at the greatest feats of human accomplishment in art and science. |
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| Letters | Letters: Precautionary Principle, Toleration (Jan/Feb 2004) | | 2/1/2004 |
| Description: Irfran Khawaja on the Precautionary Principle applied to war, Stephen Hicks on Voltaire and Toleration. |
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| Article | Fortress Americanism | Roger Donway | 2/1/2004 |
| Description: Foreign ideas—mostly European ideas—are having a growing influence on American judges, lawyers, and political theorists. In principle, there is nothing wrong with this. As a nation of immigrants, America has thrived by importing the fresh perspectives of foreigners. But when the foreign ideas influencing U.S. elites are also alien ideas—alien to the fundamental philosophy of our founding—then they bring danger. |
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| Perspectives | The Battle for Toleration--and Its Betrayal | Roger Donway | 11/1/2003 |
| Description: According to Alan Charles Kors, “Voltaire’s deepest influence on Western civilization is the enshrining of toleration as a virtue.” Yet today the concept of toleration he promoted has been thoroughly perverted. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Constitutional Philosophy | | 10/1/2003 |
| Description: Locke in America: The Moral Philosophy of the Founding Era
By Jerome Huyler; Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution By Forrest McDonald; Taking the Constitution Seriously By Walter Berns; Cato Supreme Court Review: 2001–2002
Edited by James L. Swanson
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| Excerpt | The History and Creed of Islam | George Walsh | 1/11/2002 |
| Description: In his book, The Role of Religion in History, the late George Walsh provided invaluable information on the background, beliefs, practices, and history of a religion, Islam, most Americans are just beginning to contemplate. |
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| Review | The Roots of the West | William Thomas | 12/1/2001 |
| Description: In this review of Greek Ways and The Dream of Reason, William Thomas tracks the creation of Western civilization from classical Athens to the Renaissance. |
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| Excerpt | What Kant Wrought | Stephen Hicks | 10/1/1999 |
| Description: An excerpt from Stephen Hicks's two-session lecture on the Counter-Enlightenment. |
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| Article | Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and Ayn Rand's Moral Triad | Roger Donway | 9/1/1999 |
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| Interview | Stephen Hicks on Post-modernism | | 2/1/1999 |
| Description: An interview with Prof. Hicks on the topic of Postmodernism, covering the role of Hume, Rousseau, Kant , and Heidegger, how the belief in science was destroyed in the eyes of Western philosophers and how that fostered post-modernism, and Hicks's surprising explanations for the popularity of post-modernism. |
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| Letters | Letters: Aristotle as a Scientist (April 1998) | Susan Dawn Wake | 4/1/1998 |
| Description: An exchange between professors Susan Dawn Wake and Alan Charles Kors following Kor's interview The Philosophy of the Enlightenment |
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| Interview | The Philosophy of the Enlightenment | | 11/1/1997 |
| Description: Alan Charles Kors, a history professor at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the West's most rational and individualist era. How did the age view God, free will, reason, self-interest, liberty, and the arts? What did the Enlightenment think of the Renaissance and of Aristotle? |
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| Article | The Forgotten Essentials of Jefferson's Philosophy | David Mayer | 4/1/1997 |
| Description: An article by David Mayer of Capital University on Thomas Jefferson's political philosophy |
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| Review | The Roots of Ayn Rand? | James Lennox | 11/1/1995 |
| Description: A review of Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical by Chris Matthew Sciabarra |
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| Audio | Origins of the Constitution and Bill of Rights | David Mayer | |
Description: Audio Excerpt.Dr. Mayer discusses the origins of the Constitution and Bill of Rights—placing the philosophical foundations of America's founding documents in historical context and showing how they are still important means for limiting the power of government and preserving individual liberty.
Buy the audiotape at The Objectivism Store |
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| Study Guide | Foundations Study Guide: Ancient Greek Philosophy | George Brakas | |
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