Philosophy

Activism backlash at Oberlin College will lead to more speech restrictions

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Summary: Oberlin College students (and some administrators) behaved badly. The local business they targeted responded with a lawsuit for damages.  The court agrees, ordering Oberlin to pay $11 million. The down-the-road response? Colleges everywhere will take note, and worried number-cruncher administrators will urge further restrictions on campus speech and action. So: (1) Bad ideology on

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Socialism and the surveillance state, Lenin’s 1917 version

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Socialism and the surveillance state, Lenin’s 1917 version: “Only socialism will be the beginning of a rapid, genuine, truly mass forward movement, embracing first the majority, and then the whole of the population, in all spheres of public and private life. … [Then] the escape from this popular accounting and control will inevitably become so

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Audiobook: *Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics* published

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I’m happy to announce a new audio edition of my “Ayn Rand and Business Ethics” has been published at Audible. Thanks to the team at The Atlas Society for producing it. The essay was originally published in The Journal of Accounting, Ethics & Public Policy and has since been translated into Korean, German, Serbo-Croatian, and

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