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Announcing the TU Leadership Seminar for Objectivist Campus Club Leaders

This weekend at Stanford University, twenty of the nation's top Objectivist student club leaders will unite for an intense day…

Who Sets Your Standards? Announcing the First Video in Our Fall Campaign

Our new video series, “Under the Surface,” features inspiring individuals who have put themselves first and achieved noteable personal and…

How Free Education Produces Undisciplined Minds

There have always been lazy students and unreflective parents, but there have not always been government standards and government money…

Unpaid Internships Pay Much More than Minimum Wage

We all ought to be thanking companies for providing such learning experiences to young citizens rather than forcing them to…

We’re Now Taking Orders for the Fall 2013 Edition!

The newest edition of The Undercurrent is now available to order, and will arrive on your doorstep in the middle…

Fall 2013 Paid Internships: Apply today!

Write for TU and get paid $1000! Learn more about TU's Editorial Internship for the Fall of 2013.

Help us Ignite the Objectivist Student Movement

Help support The Undercurrent's ambitious activist projects for the fall semester of 2013!

Who Suffers the Most from a Morality Concerned with Suffering?

Government policies aimed at alleviating unqualified “suffering” . . . reward those who deserve to suffer. . . [and] create…

“It’s None of Your Business!”—Say It about More than Just Government Surveillance

Very little of the fury directed against the NSA has been saved for the IRS. Perhaps the double standard is…

The Push for Equality Punishes Academic Excellence (and Every Other Kind)

A concern about inequality—in education or in wealth—treats intelligence and prosperity as social ills equal to illiteracy and destitution.