Philosophical traditions, like viruses, must mutate if they wish to remain relevant even among their adherents. Orthodox Objectivism has re...

John McCaskey, the former ARI board member forced to resign for mild criticisms of a Peikoff protege, wrote in a blog post a few years back...

Pervasiveness of Rationalization in Human Thought. Studies of unconscious brain processes (sometimes called "alien subroutines")...

“The process of forming a concept is not complete until its constituent units have been integrated into a single mental unit by means of a s...

According to Rand, the Objectivist Ethics "holds that the rational interests of men do not clash—that there is no conflict of interests...

Objectivist theory of free will vs. the facts of reality. In the last two posts I have documented how the Objectivist metaphysics has helpe...

Rand’s axioms: one exists possessing consciousness . While no sensible person would deny that physiologically normal individuals "posse...

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 1: human rationality. The achievement of Objectivism’s political goals rest on the assumption that most human bein...

A digression on methodology. Vilfredo Pareto identified two types of theories: what he called “logico-experimental” theories, founded on “ ...

Politics and the non-rational 1: non-logical conduct. In 1962, Rand wrote the following in a letter to a fan: It took decades of collectivi...

Market failure: wildcat financing. After President Andrew Jackson succeeded in destroying the Bank of the United States (a great victory of...

Randian virtues: rationality. We have reached the tenth Rand’s Ethics post, with, alas, more to come before we’re done beating this partic...

Guest poster Neil Parille from Objectiblog tells the tale of Ayn Rand's odd reaction to a famous prank at the 1974 Academy Awards. Obje...