TOS Weekly - Life vs. Faith
“Discovering the idea of rational self-interest helped me rebuild my worldview from the wreckage of my religious faith,” recalls William Hagerup.
In today’s TOS Weekly:
Free Will: Do You Have It?
Life vs. Faith: William Hagerup on Leaving Religion
What to Celebrate on Independence Day
Ayn Rand’s American Morality
The Declaration of Independence Is the Moral and Legal Foundation of America
Enjoy!
Thomas Walker-Werth
Managing Editor
Free Will: Do You Have It?
OSI just added another can’t-miss session to the LevelUp 2025 program in Orlando, Florida (July 16–19).
Life vs. Faith: William Hagerup on Leaving Religion
“Discovering the idea of rational self-interest,” William reflects, “helped me rebuild my worldview from the wreckage of my religious faith.”
What to Celebrate on Independence Day
July 4, 1776 marked the beginning of the first moral country on earth—a country in which individual rights were to be explicitly recognized and protected.
Ayn Rand’s American Morality
The American founders created the greatest country on earth. To the extent that we Americans come to understand Rand’s morality and integrate it with the founders’ political ideas and a sound understanding of history, we will be better equipped to defend America, to live the American way, and to refute the lies that enemies of America tell in their effort to destroy this great country.
The Declaration of Independence Is the Moral and Legal Foundation of America
The Declaration of Independence is an essential element—the essential element—of our national identity. Abraham Lincoln put the point beautifully when he called it the “electric cord” that “links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together.”
‘A Fountain of Clarity’
“The Objective Standard is a fountain of clarity in an otherwise murky world.”
—Martin
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