Jon Hersey

Defining a Future to Fight For

By | Jun 18, 2020

Craig and I have just begun our first two (sold out!) sessions of the OSI course “How to Write Powerfully in Defense of Liberty,” and there’s a point that’s come up that I’d like to emphasize and to share with Level...

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Want to Live among Heroes?

By | Jun 2, 2020

When I was a kid, my best friend and I were addicted to stories of people overcoming the impossible, and we wanted to live in a world of heroes to whatever extent we could. We would pretend we were characters from practically every movie and TV show we watched. One...

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Introducing Two New OSI Fellows

Introducing Two New OSI Fellows

by | Feb 20, 2023

I’m excited to announce two new fellows at Objective Standard Institute: Kiyah Willis and Ely Lassman. After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kiyah worked for a year as a data analyst but soon realized that she was more passionate about...

Ryan Holiday and the Timeless Lessons of Stoicism

Ryan Holiday and the Timeless Lessons of Stoicism

by | Jul 20, 2020

The Stoic philosophers, including the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, lived some 2,000 years ago and didn’t have the benefit of more recent schools of philosophy, such as Ayn Rand’s...