The recent murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis was ghastly and reminds us of the hideous racial injustice directed against black Americans in the nation’s past. In this essay, I will examine American racism in a worldwide context, and then seek a...
Andrew Bernstein is a philosophy professor and novelist, a contributing editor to The Objective Standard, and the author of numerous articles and books, including The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire and Objectivism...
Aristotle, Montessori, Carver, Cyrano, Earhart, Shackleton, Shane, and many more. Bernstein passionately demonstrates how heroes exert every ounce of their intellectual, physical, and moral strength to surmount obstacles as they tirelessly promote human life. The...
(This essay was originally written as a chapter in my book, Heroes, Legends, Champions: Why Heroism Matters, and is an outtake from that book.) Do specific geniuses or “great men” drive forward the events of history? Is profound impact on social history...
Here is a radio interview regarding education with David Leonard in Yankton, South Dakota–where The Education Guy went to college! https://archive.org/details/bernstein5pm
Here’s an excellent interview The Education Guy did with Dr. John Huber on the collapse of the US education system. Listen to “Will the Continuing Decline of U.S. Education Lead to a Society of Illiterates?” on...
By Andrew Bernstein Ph.D. Student test scores show that American schools are a failure. As far back as 1983, a commission appointed by the Reagan Administration entitled its report regarding U.S. education: “A Nation at Risk.” It concluded ominously: “If an unfriendly...
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...
Author’s note: This essay was originally published in The Objective Standard. American education is a catastrophe. The evidence supporting this conclusion is overwhelming and has been for decades. For example, a December 2016 article in The Atlantic reported that...