The Objective Standard
TOS Admin, Rebecca Day, Thomas F. Walker, Angelica Werth, Craig Biddle, Anna Shnaidman, Margherita Bovo, Timothy SandefurThe Objective Standard is the source for commentary from an Objectivist perspective.
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The Summer 2026 Issue of The Objective Standard Is Released!
Welcome to the Summer 2026 issue of The Objective Standard, the rational alternative to conservatism and regressivism.
July 4, 2026 will mark 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In that quarter millennium, Ameri...
America the Rational
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
Despite the flaw, those are my favorite lines from Katharine Lee Bates’s “America the Beautiful.”
America is beautiful. But w...
Ten Poems on America the Beautiful
America
by George Gordon Byron
THE NAME of Commonwealth is past and gone,
Over three fractions of the groaning globe:—
Venice is crushed, and Holland deigns to own
A sceptre, and endures a purple robe:
If the free Switzer y...
Understanding the Declaration of Independence
Editor’s note: This is part one of a three-part adaptation of a chapter from Timothy Sandefur’s book Proclaiming Liberty: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Declaration of Independence, reproduced with permission of the Cato Instit...
Mother Courage: “Epic Theater” vs the Human Soul
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015
176 pp. $9.90 (paperback).
Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as a brilliant, clinical dissection of wartime economies and as the pinnacle of epic theater.1 Yet its precise theme...
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The Objective Standard (TOS) is the preeminent source for commentary from an Objectivist perspective, Objectivism being Ayn Rand’s philosophy of reason, egoism, and capitalism.
Writer and musician. For my latest published work, visit The Epoch Times and Classically Cultured.
I am a writer, editor, speaker, and instructor on rational philosophy and personal development.
As a lifelong bookworm, student of philosophy, and writer of nonfiction, I decided to combine my interests and write about the philosophic ideas present in the fiction I'm reading.
Author of Loving Life, Rational Egoism, and hundreds of essays; host of the Under Standing podcast; executive director of Objective Standard Institute; editor in chief of The Objective Standard (journal)
Author of NOVALAND, a futuristic novel set in a free city in Gaza in 2036. Exploring to challenge narratives, push beyond echo chambers, and blend rationality with the inner force driving human transformation.
Philosophy researcher, historian of Science and rational egoist eager to spread and defend the values of the Enlightenment
Vice president for litigation at the Goldwater Institute and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute
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