This new quarterly journal of culture and politics works from the premise that “for every human concern ... there are demonstrably objective standards by reference to which we can assess what is true ...

“The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand,” Paul Ryan said in 2009. “And the fight we are in here, make no mistake ...

This post is about an absurd philosophy that got sold to the world of business and government, creating a world of havoc in the United States. The philosophy, called "Objectivism," came from the hack ...

More than four decades after her death, the author of the popular novels Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead is still one of the most divisive public intellectuals. On one hand, her position of ...

Though the stories are out in force now that he is the GOP’s vice presidential nominee, I could already tell that Paul Ryan was an admirer of Objectivism (though recently renounced). After all, his ...

Gautam Naik is an IIT Kharagpur graduate and has more than twenty-five years of Entrepreneurship experience in Global Software Services. In a humorous story, Great Marathi Author P L Deshpande’ s ...

Constant Contact Use. Please leave this field blank. By submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from the Washington Monthly In Rand’s stories, the individual is the ...

The expression “lies, damned lies, and statistics” has long served as a pointed reminder of the risks associated with manipulating or misusing statistical information. To underscore the severity of ...

My parents split up when I was 4. My father, a lawyer, wrote the divorce papers himself and included one specific rule: My mother was forbidden to raise my brother and me religiously. She agreed, ...

If you were honest in your polemics, and with yourselves, you would acknowledge that your attack on our alleged abandonment of dialectics and the fight against pragmatism is a subterfuge. The real ...