Daniel Barnes has pointed out to me that Rand's Google trends are in decline. This suggests something I have suspected for a number of y...

I've been a little tied up of late, but a couple of new pieces will be up soon. One will be on the suprising roots of the Objectivist et...

Sometimes we wonder... Objectivists often contend that Ayn Rand's critics do not or cannot grasp her philosophy's fundamental princi...

In the 'Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology' Ayn Rand contends that the famous 'problem of universals' is the great qu...

Till I get around to narrowing down the 5 most cringe-inducing moments in TPARC - it's what you call a target-rich environment - my Amaz...

Author and occasional Rand critic Michael Prescott recently described us as "intelligent, calm, and serious" . So very true, altho...

We are not worthy! James Valliant on Ayn Rand: "The potential impact of Rand's work is comparable only to that of a great religious...

I'm midway through James Valliant's book "The Passion of Ayn Rand's Critics" . In it Valliant seeks to polish up Rand...

From ARCHN, Chapter 1,'Theory Of Human Nature: ... According to Objectivism, man's capacity to choose stems from a "primary cho...

Fred Seddon misses the point of both Greg Nyquist and Ayn Rand. In his ‘Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature’ Greg Nyquist noted the lack of seriou...

"I except a few skeptics—the decent type in the history of philosophy: the rest are simply unaware of the most basic requirements of in...

Greg Nyquist is a freelance writer and scholar living in California. Daniel Barnes is a businessman living in New Zealand.

Overview: With a multimillion-selling oeuvre of fiction and polemic, promoted by both her followers and herself as the greatest philosopher ...