Benjamin Franklin: The Enlightenment Personified
If you’re not familiar with Franklin’s life and accomplishments, then you’re missing out on one of the most inspiring and instructive stories in world history.
Summer 2018 • Vol. 13, No. 2
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From the Editor, Summer 2018
Welcome to the Summer 2018 issue of The Objective Standard. While the value of the Enlightenment is being hotly debated by today’s intellectuals (some regard it as a negative development), taking a tightly essentialized deep dive into how the ideas of the era were embraced, advanced, and put into practice by one of its greatest representatives is simply sublime. Read “Benjamin Franklin: The Enlightenment Personified,” by Jon Hersey. You’ll not only be enlightened. You’ll be inspired. Next up is “Principles of the Liberal Right,” in which I unify vital ideas from classical liberalism and the American right into an ideology of reason, freedom, and flourishing. In “The Genius of James Madison,” Timothy Sandefur shows why Madison’s work in forging the tools and marshaling the principles necessary to establish a free country justifies the appellation he was too modest to accept: Father of the Constitution. In “Henry Hazlitt in One Lesson,” Tom Malone shows that the man most famous for his wonderful book Economics in One Lesson is himself worthy of such focus. Next, in “John Lautner and Real Architecture,” Betsy Speicher shows why Frank Lloyd Wright called Lautner “the world’s second-best architect.” Lautner has been compared to Howard Roark from Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead,. . . Continue »
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Features
Principles of the Liberal Right
An integration of the best ideas from classical liberalism and the American right, essentialized for clarity, consistency, and precision.
The Genius of James Madison
More than any of his colleagues, James Madison forged the tools and marshaled the principles necessary to establish a free country—and this achievement justifies the appellation he was too modest to accept: Father of the Constitution.
Economics, History, Philosophy
Henry Hazlitt in One Lesson
“I’ve been preaching liberty as against coercion; I’ve been preaching capitalism as against socialism; and I’ve been preaching this doctrine in every form and with any excuse.” —Henry Hazlitt
John Lautner and Real Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright called him “the world’s second-best architect.” His spectacular homes have been the settings for commercials, Vogue fashion spreads, and dozens of movies. Most people have seen his astonishing work, but very few know his name.
Arts & Culture, Education & Parenting
Tal Tsfany on Sophie, the Book
Tal Tsfany discusses his new book, Sophie, including the genesis of the story and his thought processes while writing and editing the book.
Shorts
‘Act Worthy of Yourselves’: Joseph Warren on Defending Liberty
"I know you would not turn your faces from your foes, but will, undauntedly, press forward, until tyranny is trodden under foot, and you have fixed your adored goddess Liberty, on the American throne." —Dr. Joseph Warren
Hamilton’s Bank of New York Put the City Back in Business and the U.S. on the Map
If we trace the steps of New York’s rise as the financial capital of the world, we must recognize that establishing the Bank of New York was a pivotal moment in history.
Free Speech, Property, and the Right to Discriminate
The U.S. government, which finally corrected the historic injustice of states denying gays the right to marry, should not now commit a new injustice by denying the rights of bakers to use their property as they see fit.
Jackie Robinson: ‘The Best Kind of American Hero’
On April 15, 1947, Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson not only changed the complexion of baseball, he changed America.
‘No Man Swings More or Stands Higher Than the Duke’
Duke Ellington crafted a sound that “literally lifts one out of one’s seat.” He flourished despite widespread racism and opened the doors of the world from behind his piano. Celebrate the Duke's birthday with a taste of the unrestrained joy he brought to music and life.
Book Reviews
History, Philosophy, Politics & Rights, Reviews
The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, by Dinesh D’Souza
D’Souza leaves the actual roots of the American left shrouded. And he paints conservatives as classical liberals. This is D’Souza’s big lie.
Arts & Culture, Education & Parenting, Reviews
Sophie, by Tal Tsfany
Sophie makes readers think in-depth and for themselves the whole way through and continue thinking even after they’ve turned the last page.