The writing
Everything, in one place.
Essays and papers across biology, psychology, philosophy and education. Group them by topic, or read straight down from the most recent.
Education & Montessori
Prepared environments, self-directed work, and what genuinely helps a young person become capable — from the Montessori classroom to the seminar table.
- 2022 What Vision Do Young People Need?
- 2022 The Ordered Liberty of Montessori Education
- 2022 I Run a Private School, and I’m Against School Vouchers
- 2022 To Restore American Liberty, We Need Colleges that Actually Teach the Liberal Arts
- 2022 Why the U.S. Needs New Colleges
- 2022 What University Education Might Be and Ought to Be
- 2019 Austrian Economist Bob Murphy Interviews Marsha Familaro Enright on School Vouchers
- 2019 Schools for Individualists – Montessori’s Methods and Today’s Problems
- 2017 Liberating Education – What Education Would Be Like In A Fully Free Society
- 2014 Teaching Freedom: Incorporating the Principles of a Free Society into Pedagogy
- 2014 Flourishing Through Education in the Creative Destruction of Capitalism: The Science and Educational Principles of The Great Connections Program
- 2013 Maria Montessori: The Liberator of Children
- 2013 The Psychology and Practice of Introspection
- 2013 Education for a New Enlightenment
- 2012 What’s Wrong With Distance Learning
- 2011 Review of Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism: Educational Theory for a Free Market in Education by Jerry Kirkpatrick
- 2011 Socratic Seminars: Learning to think first-hand: Revised 1-27-13
- 2009 Students Need Mental Ammunition
- 2007 A little recognized influence on the Montessori Movement by Marsha Familaro Enright
- 2006 Schools for Individualists: TNI’s exclusive interview with Marsha Enright, by Sara Pentz
- 2003 The Montessori Way, by Tim Seldin and Paul Epstein
- 1999 Interview with Marsha Enright by Karen Minto, Full Context, Vol. 12, No. 1
- 1992 Foundations Study Guide: Montessori Education
Psychology & the Independent Mind
Motivation, attention and self-direction — how a person comes to think, judge and choose on their own terms rather than on loan from someone else.
Freedom, Capitalism & Culture
The conditions under which self-directed people flourish — liberty examined as a practical question about human beings, not asserted as a slogan.
- 2022 Reply to Sechrest: On the Origins of Government
- 2019 Capitalism is the Crucial Protector of the Smallest Minority
- 2012 Ayn Rand Explained: From Tyranny to Tea Party
- 2011 The Call of the Entrepreneur
- 2011 James Madison Was Right About Property Rights
- 2010 Defending Western Civilization
- 2010 A Sad Birthday for Jefferson by Gen LaGreca and Marsha Familaro Enright
- 2010 A lesson in profit by Gen LaGreca and Marsha Familaro Enright
- 2010 The Morality of Capitalism
- 2010 Can the free market be saved without Ayn Rand?
Arts, Literature & Reviews
What novels, pictures and criticism do for a mind that runs on purpose — and why a culture’s art tells you what it believes about people.
- 2019 We Need Art To Deify The Greats Of Capitalism
- 2013 Tom Wolfe, American Iconoclast
- 2009 Did Ayn Rand Influence Ken Follett?
- 2007 James Clavell’s Asian Adventures
- 2006 Hawley’s Heroes and the Romance of Business
- 2004 Old-Style Heroism in ‘Have Gun, Will Travel’
- 2003 The Edge: Features a One of a Kind Movie Hero
Great Books & Collaborative Inquiry
First-rate texts, read together and argued over. Conversation used as an instrument of discovery rather than a way to pass the time.
Life, Biology & Consciousness
The ground floor. What a living thing is, and how mind arises out of biology without collapsing into a machine — or floating free as a ghost.
50 pieces, newest first within each topic.