Specialties

• Philosophy: Objectivism, Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, Reason vs Religion, Individual Rights
• Politics: Racism and "Diversity," Environmentalism, Multiculturalism, Capitalism, Foreign Policy, Islamic Totalitarianism

Mr. Schwartz is the author of The Foreign Policy of Self-Interest: A Moral Ideal for America, and the editor and contributing author of Ayn Rand's Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution. He is the former chairman of the board of directors of the Ayn Rand Institute and former editorial director of its op-ed program. Mr. Schwartz was the founding editor and publisher of The Intellectual Activist, a periodical covering political, cultural and philosophic issues, and is the author of The Battle for Laissez-Faire Capitalism—a collection of articles he wrote for that publication.

Lectures

• Clarity in Conceptualization: The Art of Identifying "Package-Deals"
• The "Diversity" Delusion
• The Epistemology of Altruism
• The Writing Process
• The Objectivist Virtue of Selfishness
• Analyzing Libertarianism
• Objectivism, Libertarianism and Religion
• Terrorism and the Morality of Self-Defense
• The Politics of Pragmatism
• Capitalism and Selfishness
• Environmentalism: Sacrificing Mankind to Nature
• Multiculturalism and the Anti-Conceptual Mentality
• Requirements of Objective Journalism
• Back to the Dark Ages?
• America's Foreign Policy: Self-Interest vs. Self-Sacrifice

Panels

• Roundtable Discussion on Terrorism (2002)
• Panel on Terrorism and War (2004)
• The Jihad Against the West (2006)

Booklets

• Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty

Books

• The Foreign Policy of Self-Interest
• The Voice of Reason (contributing author)
• Return of the Primitive (editor and contributing author)

Op-Eds

Letters to the Editor