Onkar Ghate
Onkar Ghate is Dean of the Objectivist Academic Center at the Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, CA. The Institute promotes Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, author of "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead."
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October 12, 2007
When I read Atlas Shrugged, I was captivated. There were complicated romantic relationships, alliances and treachery, heroes who overcame obstacles, villains who tried to stop them, and an intriguing question that seemed to be behind it all: "Who is John Galt?" And yet, it was unlike anything I had ...
October 11, 2007
On October 10 Atlas Shrugged celebrates its 50th anniversary. Reading it remains an unforgettable experience. The story is gripping, involving numerous mysteries and unexpected but logical plot twists. The characters are unique--what other book contains a philosopher turned pirate? And the writing i...
October 11, 2007
October 10 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the greatest work of one of America's most controversial and inspiring writers: Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
Rand's novels continue to be wildly popular among the young. Some 22,000 high school and college students this year submitted entries to essay c...
August 22, 2007
True self-esteem requires nurturing and rewarding a child's exercise of his mind not his feelings.
The beginning of the school year is an appropriate time to question how our schools propose to teach our children.
Today's educators, observing widespread self-doubt among the young, believe t...
July 19, 2006
Only when the initiators of force learn that their actions lead to their own destruction, will peace be possible in the Middle East.
As Israeli soldiers reenter Gaza and bomb Lebanon, and Israeli citizens seek shelter from Hezbollah's missiles, the world despairingly wonders whether peace betwee...
February 08, 2006
The West's current failure to staunchly defend our freedom to speak and criticize is explained by the injunction to love our enemies.
To fathom our government's contemptible treatment of a handful of unbowed journalists, you must see the roots of that treatment in the moral ideal Christianity bequ...
January 23, 2006
Man's method of survival--transforming nature to meet his needs--must be defended against environmentalism's attack.
The good news: a federal grand jury in Eugene, Oregon, has indicted 11 people on charges that they committed acts of domestic terrorism on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front and t...
October 12, 2005
As the world eagerly watches the Iraqi constitutional referendum, the Bush administration and its intellectual supporters herald the occasion as a historic step toward freedom in the Middle East and security for America. This view betrays an appalling ignorance of the nature of freedom and the requi...