The voice of reason : essays in objectivist thought

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Introducing objectivism -- Review of Aristotle by John Herman Randall, Jr. -- To young scientists -- Who is the final authority in ethics -- The psychology of psychologizing -- Altruism as appeasement -- The question of scholarships -- Of living death -- Religion vs. America / Leonard Peikoff -- The intellectual bankruptcy of our age -- Our cultural value-deprivation -- Global Balkanization -- How to read (and not write) -- The lessons of Vietnam -- The sanction of the victims -- Through your most grievous fault -- Apollo 11 -- Epitaph for a culture -- Assault from the ivory tower: the professors' war against America ; The American school: why Johnny can't think / Leonard Peikoff -- Representation without authorization -- To dream the non commercial dream -- Tax credits for education -- Antitrust: the rule of unreason -- The pull peddlers -- About a woman president -- The inverted moral priorities -- Hunger and freedom -- How not to fight against socialized medicine -- Medicine: the death of a profession / Leonard Peikoff -- Libertarianism: the perversion of liberty / Peter Schwartz -- Epilogue: My thirty years with Ayn Rand: an intellectual memoir / Leonard Peikoff