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- Howard Roark: In Praise of the Self Speech from the Fountainhead (1943) https://www.panarchy.org/rand/roark.1943.html 5 comments
- Ideas that Have Harmed Mankind (1946) http://www.panarchy.org/russell/ideas.1946.html 40 comments
- Nationalism as a religion by Carlton J. H. Hayes https://www.panarchy.org/hayes/nationalism.html 63 comments philosophy
- In this essay the author examines the professionalization of human needs, i.e. the fact that, in our society, every need becomes associated to a professional expert charged to define and satisfy it. http://www.panarchy.org/mcknight/disabling.html 113 comments philosophy
- Tolstoy said that patriotism is slavery. A superb text on the alienation and the debasement produced by what the state regards as the noble sentiment of patriotism. http://www.panarchy.org/tolstoy/1894.eng.html 16 comments politics
- Why do people value work so much? Why must we be useful? http://www.panarchy.org/russell/idleness.1932.html 121 comments philosophy
- Fascinating study on the phenomenon of sheeple mentality. http://www.panarchy.org/asch/social.pressure.1955.html 8 comments science
- A great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work. http://www.panarchy.org/russell/idleness.1932.html 42 comments philosophy