Peter Schwartz

This article is about the journalist Peter Schwartz. For the theologian Peter Schwartz see Petrus Niger ; for other people see Peter Schwarz .

Peter Schwartz

Peter Schwartz (* 1949 ) is an American journalist. He is a representative of the " objectivism " of the US author Ayn Rand .

Life

Peter Schwartz received his MA in Journalism from Syracuse University in 1972. From 1979 to 1991 he was editor of The Intellectual Activist (TIA) magazine and contributed as an author to a number of works by Rand, including The Voice of Reason and Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution . In 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 a series of articles (May, June and December 1985) on the libertarian movement in his magazine, for which he received criticism from the libertarian Walter Block. In the anthology The Voice of Reason appeared in 1989 a summary under the title "Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty".

In 2004, Schwartz published a book on foreign policy entitled "The Foreign Policy of Self Interest: A Moral Ideal for America". In a press release, the Ayn Rand Institute called Schwartz's book an "uncompromising manifesto" for a foreign policy based solely on America's self-interest . How a foreign policy of self-interest can be applied in a specific situation was explained by Schwartz in July 2003 using the example of Liberia, where he rejected an intervention by the USA. In March 2007, the Ayn Rand Institute last published an article by Schwartz defending income inequality .

Publications

• The Foreign Policy of Self-Interest (2004), ISBN 9780962533662
• The Voice of Reason
• Return of the Primitive

Web links

• Ayn Rand Institute: Peter Schwartz

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ayn Rand Center (accessed August 15, 2009)
2. ^ Ayn Rand Center (accessed August 15, 2009)
3. ^ Ayn Rand Center (accessed August 15, 2009)