Gregory Browne, in this essay, replies to criticism of his book Necessary Factual Truth , a work which attempts to combine Misesian aprioris...

Kirsti Minsaas provides a short review of Erika Holzer's Ayn Rand: My Fiction Writing Teacher . In the course of her review, Minsaas ind...

David Graham and Nathan Nobis review Tibor Machan's treatise Putting Human's First: Why We Are Nature's Favorite , which is neo-...

In this article, Susan L. Brown reviews two collections of essays from ARI, the first collecting essays about Rand's novel Anthem , the ...

Just a note to say that my posting will be limited over the coming weeks due to work and travel commitments. Greg may post as the spirit mov...

Before being interrupted by other pressing issues (JARS, etc.), I had been doing a short series of posts on Rand's morality. Originally,...

"Concepts" = condensations of human knowledge, which also simultaneously transcend all human knowledge. They can never be overthr...

Double helping this week: "Rand's account of the rise of statism in America indicates that she knew virtually nothing about how pol...

Rand's "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology" is easily the worst thing she ever wrote. Rambling despite its brevity, almo...

"Contextual absolute" = Oxymoron. Not in fact an 'absolute' at all. If you consider this sort of thing an epochal contrib...

"A is A" = i) Shorthand for the Law of Identity ii) Buzzphrase, the mere invocation of which is believed to validate any argument...

The title of Degutis' essay is a mouthful, to be sure, but it is an excellent piece -- quite the best in the entire issue Fall 2006 issu...

Amusingly in light of the embarrassing standards of debate Objectivists regularly demonstrate here, Greg Perkins over at Noodlefood enlighte...

"It's not that I can't respond to your challenge to show the fallacy in your book, it's that I decline to respond." - ...

"For Objectivists, the term reason is a sort of mystical entity whose purpose is to assure them that they are right." - Greg Nyqu...

...even though that critic, one Mr John Donohue, has point-blank refused to read "Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature"! Only in Objectiv...

"Social Metaphysician" = someone who cares what non-Objectivists think about them.

"Second-hander" = i) someone who thinks the opinions of others* has some value ii) someone who thinks the 250,000 years of human ...

An occasional series that translates Objectivist jargon into plain language. "Floating abstraction" = Buzz-phrase applied to any...

An occasional series that translates Objectivist jargon into plain language. "Concrete-bound" = Buzz-phrase applied to any practi...