How Independent Thinking Fosters a Culture of Liberty
Independent thinking means only accepting ideas or claims once you fully understand them and see that they fit with your other relevant knowledge.
Independent thinking means only accepting ideas or claims once you fully understand them and see that they fit with your other relevant knowledge.
Angelica Walker-Werth Mar 12, 2024
The Guardian typically publishes articles with a strong anti-capitalist bent, from calling for the nationalization of Greyhound coaches to claiming that capitalism is “killing the planet.” So it was a pleasant surprise to see a Guardian headline highlighting one of capitalism’s many great benefits, perhaps unintentionally.
Thomas Walker-Werth May 17, 2022
The news from the Ukrainian-Russian war is sickening. But there are still some people in Russia who care about life and liberty, and they can inspire us to increase our own efforts to advance the cause of freedom.
Robert Harttford Mar 18, 2022
In a recent debate on Second Amendment rights in the House of Representatives, Representative Chip Roy gave an impassioned defense of Americans’ right to own weapons as a means to defend themselves against potential tyranny. Unfortunately, he made a crucial mistake.
Thomas Walker-Werth Nov 10, 2021
John Taylor Gatto was an American schoolteacher. He taught in New York City schools for 30 years, won the New York State Teacher of the Year Award—and resigned his position in the op-ed pages of the New York Times. Over the course of his career, Gatto became a...
Hannah Frankman Sep 23, 2021
Over the past week, environmentalist “protesters” affiliated with the “Insulate Britain” movement have twice blocked the M25, Britain’s busiest motorway. The reaction from the British police has been absurd. They’ve given these rights violators multiple polite...
Thomas Walker-Werth Sep 20, 2021
I recently joined Ricardo Ibáñez on his podcast, “Ricardo’s Time” to discuss Ayn Rand’s morality of rational egoism and how it compares to religious morality. Our conversation focuses on the value of Rand’s ideas to people from Latin America who were raised in...
Craig Biddle Sep 17, 2021
Craig and I have just begun our first two (sold out!) sessions of the OSI course “How to Write Powerfully in Defense of Liberty,” and there’s a point that’s come up that I’d like to emphasize and to share with Level Up readers and contributors....
Jon Hersey Jun 18, 2020
When I was a kid, my best friend and I were addicted to stories of people overcoming the impossible, and we wanted to live in a world of heroes to whatever extent we could. We would pretend we were characters from practically...
Jon Hersey Jun 2, 2020