Defending Free Speech

Freedom of speech is indispensable to a free and civilized society, yet this precious right is increasingly under attack today. 
 * Islamic totalitarians repeatedly threaten and kill those deemed blasphemers, while our political leaders stand idly by, and many intellectuals blame the victims.  * College students seek "trigger warnings" and "safe spaces" from controversial ideas and fly into fits of rage at the slightest offense.* The government harasses tea party groups, preventing them from speaking out during an election, and it investigates oil companies and advocacy groups for the "crime" of dissenting from climate change orthodoxy.  Why is this happening? What can be done? This hard-hitting collection provides answers. Applying Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism to the most pressing free speech issues of the day, the essays in this book reveal the attacks on free speech to be the product of destructive ideas--ideas that are eroding Western culture at its foundation. They expose those ideas and the individuals who hold them, and, importantly, they identify the only ideas on which Western civilization can be sustained: reason, egoism, and individual rights.

• Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: From George W. Bush to Barack Obama and Beyond
• In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance
• Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
• A New Textbook of Americanism: The Politics of Ayn Rand
• The Illusion of Determinism: Why Free Will Is Real and Causal
• The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America
• Teaching Johnny to Think: A Philosophy of Education Based on the Principles of Ayn Rand's Objectivism
• The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
• Discovering Great Plays: As Literature and as Philosophy
• How We Know: Epistemology on an Objectivist Foundation