Daria

Meet OSI’s new fellow, Daria! ㅤ Daria writes and creates videos about the role rational philosophy plays in personal flourishing—and the…

with @objectivestandardinstitute

Where do values come from if not from God? From the same place everything else comes from—reality. Morality and our values can’t and shou…

The minds that built radar, cracked nuclear physics, and engineered the weapons of World War II were not ordinary minds. They were extrao…

The post-war boom is so often referred to as a proof that war creates prosperity that it’s actually scary. In reality, it’s proof of th…

When faith is the standard, everything becomes permissible. Once «I believe it» counts as proof, there’s no filter—nothing to separate a…

GDP going up during a war doesn’t mean people got richer—it just means the government spent trillions on war needs.

There’s this floating image of a virtuous person as of someone who holds the values and follows the tradition proclaimed to be right. But…

Give people ownership of what they build — and watch what happens. A 19th-century experiment in freedom, Ignatius Ścibor Marchocki’s Mynk…

Though fear may run a very confident simulation of failure, making it feel like a prophecy, it’s never so. There’s no way to know what’ll…

Prevailing self-interest does not presuppose the absence of care for others. It’s the reason why the given care is even meaningful.

Destructive ideas persist because ideas for flourishing have truth on their side. Yes, you’ve read that correctly. The fact that pro-li…

The brain can be very good at finding whatever you send it to look for. Send it to find reasons to say no — it comes back with an exhaust…