HeyJaredStewart Margolis
I began studying Objectivism in my teens & co-founded UCLA's Ayn Rand Club in 1985. Since then I've written & directed award-winning movies, published nonfiction (https://shorturl.at/BWlzM) & worked on & off at the Ayn Rand Institute.
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Literal Communism (opens the original)
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At this point, I rarely hear anyone defending Donald Trump as “the best president ever.” I’m sure such people are still out there, but perhaps they’ve learned how insane they sound to the rest of us and are keeping their mouths shut.What I do still hear — often — is that while Trump is bad, the alternative would have been worse. In fact, I came across someone recently (a self-identified Objectivist) who was openly critical of Trump, but said he would vote for him again because the alternative wa
Should Conversion Therapy Be Banned? (opens the original)
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I Believe That Children Are Our Future (opens the original)
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For most of my life, doomsayers (such as the recently deceased Paul Ehrlich) warned that overpopulation would be the downfall of mankind. Now that the world’s population is expected to peak and then begin declining within the next 30 to 50 years, a new set of Chicken Littles wants us to panic about demographic collapse.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qFR7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazo
What Constitutes Support? (opens the original)
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I was hosting a podcast recently when the question arose of what constitutes support. Does voting for a politician mean you “support” that person? I argued that it does not. Generally in politics today, the choice is between two bad options, and you vote for the least bad — the “lesser of the evils.” If you are rational, though, you don’t then go on to support everything that politician does (rare), or to minimize or rationalize the evil they commit (common). A vote for someone is an expression
Who Am I To Know? (opens the original)
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Can you imagine Howard Roark refraining from praising a beautiful building until a panel of experts had given their approval? Or Dagny Taggart and Hank Rearden holding off on declaring the worth of Rearden Metal until engineering experts agreed with their assessment? Of course not. One of the core principles of Objectivism is independence. Another is the necessity of exercising your independent mind to pass judgment.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image
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