Philosophy
To Study or Not To Study
The false alternative between achieving academic goals and having fun Each September, students arrive on college campuses and prepare for…
The Spiritual Value of Work
What’s more important – your work or your relationships? That’s the question posed by David Brooks in his op-ed in…
The Unselfish Actions of Today’s “Selfish” Men
Selfishness requires consideration for the long-range consequences of one’s actions. Over the past year, we have seen many highly-publicized instances…
Taking the Pain out of Productivity
The problem with the perceived divide between work and life. With graduation day looming for this year’s college class, millions…
Obama’s Cynical View of Human Nature
President Obama has received praise from left and right for his speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. Commentators applauded Obama’s…
From Guilt to Good
Guilt is often portrayed as a “healthy” emotion – is it? Does feeling guilty help make you a better person?…
Sacrifice Before Solvency
Business schools fail their students by emphasizing altruism rather than the virtues of wealth-creation. With the global economy in tatters,…
The (False) Logic of Sacrifice
In his latest book, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty, the philosopher Peter Singer claims…
Obama the Intellectual?
Some say we finally have a President who is a thinker. Do we? An “open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual”—this was New…
Ayn Rand’s Non-Religious Conception of Morality
In our parents’ generation, academia was a bastion of secularism, and a threat to religion. Amid peace and love, political…