A Tribute to Carl Barney
I wrote a book about the nature of heroism. I know a hero when I see one. Carl Barney is a hero. Full disclosures: Carl has been a friend for thirty years; he funded the Ayn Rand Institute, which hired me to perform multiple intellectual tasks; he helps fund the...
The Truth About Climate Change
Introduction Climate change is real and persistent. Even a brief study of the recent past illustrates this, but it becomes all the more certain when one broadens the scope to take in the vast sweep of geologic time. Is nature’s inherent dynamism responsible for the...Effective Defense of Innocent Lives Requires Gun Ownership By Honest Persons
Introduction The atrocities in our schools must be ended. It is unconscionable that we do not take the actions necessary to save the innocent lives murdered by cold-blooded, gun-slinging psychopaths. There is a way to terminate these campus bloodbaths and to lower...
Great Islamic Thinkers vs. Islam
“During its Golden Age, the Muslim world, in the arts and sciences, conducted a love affair with the Greek method of observation-based rationality; but—because such method applied to life’s most fundamental questions threatened religious beliefs—could not, and,...
The Enduring Positive Legacy of Aristotle – Aristotle Versus Religion (7 of 7)
The Enduring Positive Legacy of Aristotle In one of history’s great and tragic ironies, in the late Middle Ages Aristotle became the patron Greek philosopher of the Catholic Church. Many of that era’s thinkers, the Scholastics, were Christian Aristotelians. But a...Support Andrew Bernstein on Patreon!
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