Announcing TU’s Spring 2014 Campaign Event! A Debate entitled, “Is the...
“Is the Welfare State Just?”: An Interview with Don Watkins. from The Undercurrent on Vimeo. Best-selling author and Fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, Don Watkins, will debate UW-Madison political...
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A Professor’s Tribute to Ayn Rand is a Dramatic Reminder of the Value of...
A philosophy professor at DePaul University in Chicago, Jason Hill, has written a remarkable piece in Salon. In it, Hill recounts a story familiar to many of us at The Undercurrent: how, as a young...
View ArticleWhy Stand Up For Yourself?: Under the Surface Episode 3
Under the Surface Episode 3: Why Stand Up for Yourself? from The Undercurrent on Vimeo. The Undercurrent is happy to announce the release of yet another episode, our third, in the “Under The Surface”...
View Article“Rethinking Selfishness: Ayn Rand’s New Conception of Egoism,” a lecture by...
The Undercurrent is pleased to announce the release of our Fall 2013 campaign lecture, “Rethinking Selfishness” by Onkar Ghate. This campaign lecture, held at Stanford University, is part of a larger...
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Marriage IS for You: A Response to Seth Adam Smith
In his viral blog piece “Marriage Isn’t For You,” Seth Adam Smith proposes that the best kind of love is selfless. When he began to doubt whether he should marry his girlfriend of many years, Smith...
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We Should be Active-Minded, not “Open-Minded” about Political Controversies
The recent budget deal struck by Democratic Senator Patty Murray and Republican Congressman Paul Ryan is being hailed as a groundbreaking compromise, and a defeat for the obstinate “ideological...
View ArticleThe Morality of Self-Interest: Under the Surface Episode 4 (Final Episode)
Under the Surface Episode 4: The Morality of Self-Interest from The Undercurrent on Vimeo. The Undercurrent is proud to announce the release of the final episode of the “Under The Surface” series....
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Who You are to Judge: A Response to Pope Francis and the Cult of “Tolerance”
It’s not every day that we see the mainstream media celebrate a religious figure as some kind of rock star. From Jimmy Swaggart to Ted Haggard, journalists usually treat religious leaders as...
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Defending Free Speech: An Interview with Steve Simpson
Steve Simpson is the Director of Legal Studies at the Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, California. He writes and speaks for ARI on constitutional law, freedom of speech, campaign finance and other...
View ArticleTrue or False: Your Truth is not My Truth
In a recent piece for The Asheboro Courier-Tribune, College of Charleston student, KimberMarie Faircloth asks the question: “What is truth?” In a move that is no longer surprising in the so-called...
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