The Objective Standard
TOS Admin, Craig Biddle, Thomas F. Walker, Angelica Werth, Margherita Bovo, Rebecca DayThe Objective Standard is the source for commentary from an Objectivist perspective.
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Proclaiming Liberty: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Declaration of Independence by Timothy Sandefur (Review)
When John Adams was asked in the summer of 1826 to compose a toast for the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, he offered merely two words: “Independence forever.” When asked if he wanted to elaborate, the nine...
A Self-Authored Victory: How Stepping Away Made Alysa Liu an Olympic Champion
Credit: Wikimedia user YantsImages, CC BY-SA 4.0.
She had everything she needed to become an Olympic champion. But first, she needed to quit.
In 2026, Alysa Liu became the first American woman to earn an individual figure skating gold med...
Injustice against Michael Jackson Continues in Critical Backlash to Michael (2026)
Written by John Logan
Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Starring Jaafar Jackson, Nia Long, Colman Domingo
Distributed by Lionsgate Films (United States)
Running time: 127 minutes
Rated PG-13 for language and brief violence
In Febru...
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly (Review)
London: Icon Books, 2017
337 pp., $12.04
If you think of Jane Austen novels as light, fluffy romances—think again. Through her happy endings, she imparted essential moral themes, such as the fact that happiness requires knowing whe...
Samuel Morse: The Father of Long-Distance Communication
By the time Samuel Morse received the news of his wife’s illness, she was already dead and buried. For most people in 1825, it was an accepted fact of life that sending messages took days, if not weeks; but for Morse, the long delays in com...
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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.
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)
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.
Philosophy researcher, historian of Science and rational egoist eager to spread and defend the values of the Enlightenment
Writer and musician. For my latest published work, visit The Epoch Times and Classically Cultured.
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