{"title":"Restoring Reason and Tolerance at America's Universities","authors":"R. Raad","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0343","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In Retaking College Hill: The Adults Are Back, Walter Donway takes us on a tour of a university that has been consumed by low standards and cancel culture. The dean is attempting to protect the university's standards but is being opposed at every turn, and there is a plot to fire him. A small group of his supporters try to help him. They face opposition of multiple types, including violence, each step of the way and must skillfully manage the situation. This is a novel of ideas—showing us how philosophy got the university into this mess, and how clear thinking and powerful ideas—such as those of Ayn Rand—can help reverse the trend.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"343 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47660752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Duren Banks, Lynn Langton, Madison Fann, Michael Planty, Michael J. D. Vermeer, Brian A. Jackson, Dulani Woods
{"title":"Indigent Defense Environmental Scan: Identifying Research Needs to Support Fair and Equitable Indigent Defense in the United States","authors":"Duren Banks, Lynn Langton, Madison Fann, Michael Planty, Michael J. D. Vermeer, Brian A. Jackson, Dulani Woods","doi":"10.7249/rra108-19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7249/rra108-19","url":null,"abstract":"The systems that provide counsel for indigent adult and juvenile defendants in the United States vary considerably across states, localities, and judicial jurisdictions. RTI International and RAND Corporation researchers developed a set of research priorities that, if addressed, could advance knowledge around effective indigent defense strategies.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA100/RRA108-19/RAND_RRA108-19.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147902507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Direct Incentives May Increase Employment of People With Criminal Records","authors":"Shawn D. Bushway, Justin T. Pickett","doi":"10.7249/wra2786-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7249/wra2786-1","url":null,"abstract":"The RAND Corporation is a","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/working_papers/WRA2700/WRA2786-1/RAND_WRA2786-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147888554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Tapia, Kristin Warren, Jacqueline Gardner Burns, Khrystyna Holynska, Jordan R. Reimer, Peter Schirmer, Will Shumate
{"title":"Countering Domestic Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Terrorism on Social Media: Introducing the Racist and Violent Extremist Flock Tool","authors":"Daniel Tapia, Kristin Warren, Jacqueline Gardner Burns, Khrystyna Holynska, Jordan R. Reimer, Peter Schirmer, Will Shumate","doi":"10.7249/rra1761-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7249/rra1761-1","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers developed the Racist and Violent Extremist Flock (RVE-Flock) tool to explore and analyze textual content and identify and understand emerging terms and their usage on racially and ethnically motivated violent extremist–affiliated social media. This guide explains and demonstrates the tool's functionality and suggests further applications and refinements.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA1700/RRA1761-1/RAND_RRA1761-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147909528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Evan D. Peet, Brian Phillips, Stephanie J. Walsh, Elizabeth D. Steiner, Melanie A. Zaber
{"title":"The Film Industry in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Economic Contribution and Capacity for Growth","authors":"Evan D. Peet, Brian Phillips, Stephanie J. Walsh, Elizabeth D. Steiner, Melanie A. Zaber","doi":"10.7249/rra2617-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7249/rra2617-1","url":null,"abstract":"The authors of this report examine the filming location decision, the economic contribution of the film industry, the local film industry workforce, and the factors related to maintaining and growing the film industry in Pennsylvania and, specifically, in Pittsburgh. The findings and implications inform their recommended strategies for state and local stakeholders to retain or enhance the competitiveness of the film industry in Pennsylvania.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA2600/RRA2617-1/RAND_RRA2617-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147883195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where There's a Will, There's a \"Why?\" Part 2: Implications of Value Determinism for the Objectivist Concepts of \"Value,\" \"Sacrifice,\" \"Virtue,\" \"Obligation,\" and \"Responsibility\"","authors":"Roger E. Bissell","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.22.2.0251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.22.2.0251","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The author continues his challenge to the \"official\" Objectivist view of free will by addressing the implications of his value-determinism/conditional-volition model for various Objectivist moral concepts including value, sacrifice, virtue, obligation, and moral and legal responsibility and accountability. He argues that based on Rand's definitions, the conventional understandings of sacrifice or betrayal of values, lapses in virtue, and breaches in morality need considerable reconceptualizing. The author gives special attention to Rand and Kant with regard to lying, use of force, and acts of generosity, finding not nearly as much difference between them as is commonly believed.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"251 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45648481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Atlas Shrugged Explored","authors":"F. Seddon","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.22.2.0324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.22.2.0324","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In Exploring \"Atlas Shrugged\": Ayn Rand's Magnum Opus, Edward W. Younkins examines Rand's 1957 novel as philosophy, literature, political economy, and business-education text. The book is constituted mostly by previously published essays. Despite some interpretive difficulties throughout, the introduction and appendix represent worthwhile additions to this collection.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"325 - 328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47509784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chosen or Proven Ethics?","authors":"R. Hartford","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.22.2.0206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.22.2.0206","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:A true philosophical system requires a true ethical theory. This paper proposes a premise-based approach to the truth of the foundational principle—the requirement to take actions to benefit one's life. Ayn Rand's choice-based foundation as \"the single choice: to live\" has equivalent consequences for ethical theory, but the premise-based approach and proof firmly anchor the foundation of ethics to the facts of reality. This article demonstrates that in order to be true and consistent, a particular set of premises requires the taking of beneficial action for one's life, and that provides proof of the truth of the Objectivist ethics.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"206 - 213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47736870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Objectivism and Libertarian Political Thought: A Comparative Introduction","authors":"L. Roméu","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.22.2.0189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.22.2.0189","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The purpose of the present article is to provide a comparative introduction to Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism by exploring her most significant intellectual interactions with some of the leading figures of the libertarian movement. While revolving around Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard, and Robert Nozick, it nevertheless pays attention to Rand's and Objectivism's relationship, affinities, and differences with additional authors belonging to this tradition.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"189 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42083149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Error, Free Will, and Freedom","authors":"Kathleen Touchstone","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.22.2.0214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.22.2.0214","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay examines error and both external freedom and internal freedom. There is no external freedom (the latitude to choose) without internal freedom (the capacity to choose). Concerning external freedom, it suggests that errors serve as a derivative basis for natural rights. Concerning internal freedom, it overviews four groundbreaking papers from the 1990s by Stephen Boydstun, who suggested that there is no external freedom without internal indeterminism—specifically that associated with quantum probabilities related to neuronal control processes. Also reviewed is work by Elio Conte and by Andrei Khrennikov. Experiments involving a quantum-like model of cognition are discussed.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"214 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48939465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}