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Angelica Werth

Angelica Werth is a fellow and programs manager at Objective Standard Institute, an associate editor and writer for The Objective Standard, and an Ayn Rand Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. Her roles at OSI include managing the junior fellowship and Intellectual Accelerator Programs, developing and administering courses, and mentoring. She is a voracious reader of fiction in her spare time and writes about philosophic ideas in fiction on Substack and makes videos about those things on YouTube.

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The Source and Value of Self-esteem

Angelica Werth

Having good self-esteem is essential to being happy with your life. How can you be happy if you don’t have a good opinion of yourself? But developing and maintaining high...

4 min May 16, 2021

Lifestyle

Cara E. Yar Khan on the Value of Courage

Angelica Werth

“Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being...

4 min Jan 8, 2021

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Swan Lake and the Triumph of the Good

Angelica Werth

“A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man. It projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.” ― Ayn...

4 min Sep 8, 2020