Peter Schwartz (writer)

Peter Schwartz ( born 1949 ) is an American journalist. He is the representative of " objectivism " of the U.S. author Ayn Rand.

Life

Peter Schwartz in 1972 the degree of M. A. acquired at Syracuse University in journalism. From 1979 to 1991 he was editor of The Intellectual Activist (TIA) and contributed as an author to a series of works Rands, including to The Voice of Reason and Return of the Primitive: The Anti- Industrial Revolution. The Ayn Rand Institute Schwartz took the function of Chairman of the "Board of Directors". In 1985, three years after the death of Ayn Rand Schwartz published in his magazine a series of articles (May, June and December 1985) on the libertarian movement, for which he garnered criticism of libertarian Walter Block. In the anthology The Voice of Reason in 1989, a summary was published under the title of " Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty ".

In 2004, Schwartz published a book on the topic of foreign policy under the title "The Foreign Policy of Self Interest: A Moral Ideal for America" ​​. In a press statement, the Ayn Rand Institute has called the book of Schwartz an " uncompromising manifesto " for a foreign policy that should be based solely on America's self-interest. How does a foreign policy of self-interest can be applied in a concrete situation, Schwartz had explained in July 2003 using the example of Liberia, where he declined an intervention by the United States. In March 2007, the Ayn Rand Institute published the last time an article by Schwartz, where he defends the inequality of income.

Publications

  • The Foreign Policy of Self -Interest ( 2004), ISBN 9780962533662
  • The Voice of Reason
  • Return of the Primitive
Objectivism (Ayn Rand) Social inequality
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