In Memory of Joshua Lipana
In memory of assistant editor of TOS Blog Joshua Lipana, who recently died after a heroic nine-month battle with cancer.
Summer 2013 • Vol. 8, No. 2
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From the Editor, Summer 2013
Welcome to the Summer 2013 issue of The Objective Standard. I begin with heartbreaking news. Joshua Lipana, my good friend and assistant editor of TOS Blog, died this past April after a heroic nine-month battle with cancer. As I wrote in a blog post the day he passed away:
To know Joshua was to love him. To know him well, as I did, was to love him like another self. Joshua loved life with a contagious passion. He thought at levels well beyond his years. He wrote with an eloquence few writers ever acquire. And he laughed with a joy earned only through perfect virtue. His death is a monumental loss not only for those of us who knew and adored him, but for every person on Earth who values human ability, rationality, freedom, flourishing.For more about Joshua’s life, see “In Memory of Joshua Lipana.” Special thanks to artist Bryan Larsen for creating the beautiful portrait of Joshua that accompanies that tribute, and to Linda and Quent Cordair for commissioning Mr. Larsen to produce it for me. The feature article in this issue, “The End of Central Banking, Part II” by Richard M.. . . Continue »
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Features
The End of Central Banking, Part II
Explains why central banking should be terminated and how it can be, focusing primarily on the U.S. Federal Reserve System.
The Is-Altruism Dichotomy
Shows why, even after Ayn Rand created a complete morality based exclusively on observation and logic, many people persist in believing that moral principles cannot be derived from the facts of reality.
Interview with Artist Ifat Glassman
Ifat Glassman discusses her artwork, her atelier education, and her plans for the future. The interview is accompanied by images of several of her artworks.
Shorts
Medical Tourism: A Free Market Alternative to ObamaCare
In 2009, in my home state of Colorado, a friend faced an estimated expense of $30,000 for necessary dental surgery, an amount far in excess of what ...
Don’t Expand Sales Taxes, Abolish Them
Conservatives are against new taxes—unless they are for them. The unprincipled conservative approach is most recently illustrated by a February 14 release from the American ...
The Fruits of Capitalism Are All Around Us
These are shocking statistics: Among Americans ages 18–29, people tend to have a negative view of capitalism and a positive view of socialism. As Pew reported ...
Minimum Wage Laws: Economically Harmful Because Immoral
Free market economists and conservative activists point out that minimum wage laws harm the very people they are supposedly intended to help: unskilled workers. A ...
Skunk Works to Deliver “Energy for Everyone”
Nuclear fusion has long been the holy grail as a source for energy. Consider that one kilogram of natural gas will light a hundred-watt light ...
Legislation Should be Based on Individual Rights, not Group Averages
As a slew of intrusive gun bills wind their way through the Colorado legislature, some of the discussion about those bills raises fundamental questions about ...
Contra Joseph Levine, Israel is a Legitimate State (the Only One in the Region)
In his recent New York Times article "On Questioning the Jewish State," University of Massachusetts philosophy professor Joseph Levine attempts to make the case that ...
Scientists—2, Worms—0
Need to diagnose an intestinal worm infection? Yeah, there’s an app for that. In fact, it’s the built-in camera app in the iPhone 4...
Thomas Friedman Embraces Keystone Extortion
In his article “No to Keystone, Yes to Crazy,” New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman damns the Keystone oil pipeline but says he’s willing ...
GOP Should Reject Ann Coulter’s Collectivist Approach to Immigration Reform and Embrace Individualism
Lately, many Republicans have become sympathetic to the idea of giving legal status to illegal immigrants. But not Ann Coulter. She labels all such plans “...
What’s Wrong with Stomping on “Jesus”?
When a professor at Florida Atlantic University asked students to stomp on the name of “Jesus” written on a piece of paper, a Mormon student ...
Erick Erickson and Fellow Republicans Wrongly Pit Same-Sex Marriage against Religious Freedom
This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two key cases regarding same-sex marriage: challenges to California’s Proposition 8 and to the federal Defense ...
Italian Court Persecutes Scientists for “Crime” of Non-Omniscience
In October 2012, an Italian court convicted six scientists and one government official on the charge of manslaughter, sentencing them each to six years in prison. ...
Melissa Harris-Perry Says Your Kids “Belong to Whole Communities”
This MSNBC video featuring Melissa Harris-Perry (see below) will shock anyone with even a shred of respect for America’s founding principle of individual rights. ...
Harris-Perry Doubles Down, Promoting “Collective Responsibility”
First, television host and university professor Melissa Harris-Perry said that “kids belong to whole communities.” As I pointed out, “a child belongs neither to his ...
The Conflict Over Standardized Testing Is a Consequence of Government-Run Schools
The use of standardized testing in government schools—as mandated by George W. Bush’s 2001 No Child Left Behind Act and supported by the Obama ...
North Dakotans Building First Oil Refinery in 57 Years
On March 26, construction crews started work on the Dakota Prairie Refinery, the first new oil refinery in the contiguous United States since 1977 and the first ...
Mom Who Regrets Her Children Is Example of Altruism at Work
In an online article that swept the Web, Isabella Dutton, a fifty-seven-year-old mother of two grown children, admits publicly that she regrets having children. She ...
“There Are no Values” through Islam
Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev once said, complaining about American culture, “There are no values anymore.” What his actions demonstrate is that there are no ...
Obama’s Un-American Call to “Service” and “Duty”
On May 5, President Obama delivered the commencement speech at Ohio State University. Invoking the Founders, he implored graduates to embrace the “quintessentially American value[s] ...
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Review: Django Unchained
Ari Armstrong reviews Django Unchained, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Review: The Intouchables
Ari Armstrong reviews The Intouchables, written by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano.
Review: The Sessions
Ari Armstrong reviews The Sessions, directed by Ben Lewin.
Review: The DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out, by Leonard Peikoff
Ari Armstrong reviews The DIM Hypothesis, by Leonard Peikoff
Review: Righteous Indignation, by Andrew Breitbart
Robert Begley reviews Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World, by Andrew Breitbart.
Review: Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, by John C. Goodman
Jared M. Rhoads reviews Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, by John C. Goodman.
Review: Island, by Thomas Perry
Daniel Wahl reviews Island, by Thomas Perry.
Review: The Year of Living Biblically, by A. J. Jacobs
Daniel Wahl reviews The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, by A. J. Jacobs.
Review: The Truth about Gun Control, by David B. Kopel
Ari Armstrong reviews The Truth about Gun Control, by David B. Kopel.
Review: After the Welfare State
Ari Armstrong reviews After the Welfare State, edited by Tom G. Palmer.
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Letters and Replies
Nell Kroeger writes a brief letter in praise of Richard Salsman's article, "The End of Central Banking, Part I.