Here is another extract from Ayn Rand’s book Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal . Rand expresses scepticism about the ‘common good’, a concept po...

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Libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick on the individual’s rights versus the state’s rights: Individuals have rights, and there are things n...

Herbert Spencer’s essay ‘From freedom to bondage’ contains the following reflections on socialism. [Compulsory co-operation], still exempli...

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Professor Price’s remarks on the quality of my writing were foreshadowed by my getting the Senior Open Scholarship to Somerville College, to...

copy of a letter to an academic I have been thinking about Professor H.H. Price’s role in my attempts to return to academia. These are pr...

text of a letter to an academic Throughout my life my problems have all arisen from the same cause: the hostility of the increasingly domi...

Copy of a letter to someone who asked for a signed copy of our “Apparitions” book. Charles said you wanted to have a signed copy of Appariti...

He [Nietzsche] condemns Christian love because he thinks it is an outcome of fear: I am afraid my neighbour may injure me, and so I assure h...