Timbs: A Victory for Due Process and Individual Rights
Timbs’s victory marks a significant advance for the protection of individual rights and provides a revealing glimpse into the crucial role that political philosophy plays in constitutional law.
Spring Issue of TOS & New Subscription Offerings
We’ve updated TOS’s subscription offerings and added gift subscriptions—improved ways to enjoy or give the journal for people of reason!
From the Editor, Spring 2019
The Spring 2019 issue of TOS: heroes, intelligent disobedience, liberty, justice, conceptual corrections, free-will poetry, and more!
Heroes of Great Literature
What are the characteristics of heroes? And who are the heroes of great literature? This essay examines five exceptional protagonists.
Intelligent Disobedience for Children: A Handbook for Parents and Caregivers
Here’s a powerful tool and mnemonic for teaching children to think for themselves and to disobey adults when that’s the right thing to do.
Ayn Rand & Objectivism, Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Liberty: What Is It? Why Is It Good? On What Does It Depend?
Here’s a brief introduction to Ayn Rand’s views on liberty and how they differ from conventional views.
Tal Tsfany on the State and Future of the Ayn Rand Institute
Tal Tsfany, president and CEO of ARI, reports on his first eight months at the helm and his plans for the future of the organization.
Seven Poems Celebrating Free Will
Enjoy these poems celebrating free will—including works by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Berton Braley, and Walter Wintle.
