Ayn Rand contra Conservatism 8. I detailed in my last post the differences between Objectivism and the Tragic Vision of non-ideological con...

Individual Rights 5: Burke contra Rand. Edmund Burke regarded with great suspicion any theory of rights which appeared founded, not on exte...

Politics of Human Nature 11: Humanitarianism and tribalism. In an earlier post , I quoted Rand characterizing “ the morality of altruism” a...

Politics and the non-rational 2: constructivism. In the last "Objectivism and Politics" post I introduced the concept of non-log...

Laissez-faire as a rationalization for fraud. In her essay “The Nature of Government,” Ayn Rand wrote, A unilateral breach of contract invo...