Erosophia

Year: 2012

  • The Hunger Games

    by Jason Stotts The movie The Hunger Games has been doing exceptionally well in the box office and it’s no surprise.  The Hunger Games are poignant, dramatic, and moving.  It is the story of children caught up in the machine of an all powerful government who controls the very lives of its citizens and kills…

  • Savage U

    by Jason Stotts I never thought that I might live to see the day that I said MTV has a good show on the air.  Today is, however, that day.  They’ve enlisted Dan Savage, who’s advice on relationships and sex is superb (even if some of his politics are disagreeable), to travel the country to…

  • Assorted News

    by Jason Stotts 1. A lot of people don’t realize this, but Penn and Teller are Objectivists.  It’s obvious if you ever see their live show (which is fantastic) and even explicitly says so in their program.  The other day I noticed Teller tweet the following: A big thank you to Jason Crawford for making…

  • Review: The Selfish Path to Romance

    by Jason Stotts I don’t do a lot of book reviews here on Erosophia, it’s not because I don’t read much, in fact I read several books a month, but rather that most books that I read while good, are either not worth putting the effort into reviewing or are so horribly mixed that it’s…

  • Conclusion to Contra Peikoff on Rape?

    by Jason Stotts It’s easy enough to make mistakes.  It is not so easy, however, to admit it when you do so and act to correct your mistake.  Admirably, Leonard Peikoff has done just that, recanting his earlier position on rape, saying: I want to correct a significant error I have made in an earlier…

  • Lesbian Mountain

    by Jason Stotts The female version of Brokeback Mountain just wouldn’t be the same… See more at CollegeHumor  

  • The Undercurrent

    by Jason Stotts The new edition of the Undercurrent is out!  Check out their release below. The newest edition of The Undercurrent is now available to order, and will arrive on your doorstep in the middle of March! In this issue, we will look at issues ranging from the effect of government involvement in education…

  • Assorted News

    by Jason Stotts 1. You May be More Transparent than you Think  One study from Duke University estimated that habits, rather than conscious decision-making, shape 45 percent of the choices we make every day, and recent discoveries have begun to change everything from the way we think about dieting to how doctors conceive treatments for…