This week we feature Socialists Define Socialism. Eight prominent socialists offer their definitions of their desired system: *Intellectuals: Karl Marx (Germany), Henri de Saint-Simon (France), Robert Heilbroner (USA), Michael Harrington (USA). * Politicians: Vladimir Lenin (Russia), Mao Zedong (China), Clement Atlee (Britain), Jawaharlal Nehru (India). Waterfall is a guided series of courses for everyone interested in […]

We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the seventh: OC7: Your Sex Life Under Socialism. “If socialism means collective ownership of the means of production, and human beings are the most important means of production, then socialism means collective ownership of human beings. And if human beings are

Paula Nedved reminds me of Tocqueville’s diagnosis in Democracy in America, Volume 2 (1835): “In America, the majority draws a formidable circle around thought. Within these limits, the writer is free; but woe to him if he dares to go beyond them. It isn’t that he has to fear an auto-da-fé, but he is exposed

In New York one year ago, Thaddeus Russell and I debated: Do Free Societies Need Postmodernism? Follow-up: SoHo Forum debate results and impressions. The promised quotations from Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Lentricchia.

Waterfall is a guided series of courses for everyone interested in issues upon which Objectivism has something distinctive and important to say. The first course: Money. Examine the essential role that money plays in production, trade, and investment with thinkers such as Ayn Rand and Ludwig von Mises as your guide—as well as explore the hostility