Starting in the 1950s, the sciences of mind, brain, genes, and evolution began forming a new understanding of human nature, based on an ever...

Discovered dissing "Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature" over at at Richard Dawkins' site (registration required), James Valliant, a...

Special guest poster Neil Parille from Objectiblog takes at look at the difficulties of Rand's view of compromise: Ayn Rand is often a...

Contra Rand, there are some times when you've got to let your whims rule. For no other conscious purpose other than a joyful racket unt...

A naturalist view of emotions is one that accords with the best scientific evidence and harmonizes with the view that human beings are larg...

Dr Leonard Peikoff now personally answers your philosophical questions via podcast. Regular ARCHNblog readers who may be interested in toss...

The most critical part of Rand's view of man is her theory of emotion. Upon its validity rests not merely her vision of the "ideal...

As part of our "Atlas Shrugged" 50th Anniversary discussions, we present one of the most controversial passages from Ayn Rand'...

As the ARCHNblog's "Atlas Shrugged" 50th Anniversary critique-athon continues, we link to a perceptive essay by Thomas F. Ber...

Ayn Rand, "For The New Intellectual: : "Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, th...

With the 50th anniversary of the publication of Atlas Shrugged well upon us, several internet postings of the adulatory sycophantic fustian...

As "Atlas Shrugged"'s 50th rolls on, no doubt we will hear once again the venerable tale of how it was found by the Library of...

Former ARI writer Robert Tracinski plugs "Atlas Shrugged"'s 50th over at Fox News, decrying the somewhat unsympathetic reacti...

"Sacrifice" = giving up a greater value for a lesser value. As someone once remarked about Gertrude Stein, Ayn Rand often does not...

Ayn Rand on the American Indian: "They didn’t have any rights to the land, and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights whi...

Anon: "As for your point about the rationalization of philosophic speculation, I don't know where it's coming from. Objectivism...

In Anon's most recent reply, he focuses largely on the issue of explaining why "the concepts we need to learn first are just the on...

An anonymous poster has provided to reply to my previous attack on the Objectivist hiearchy of knowledge, as advanced by Van Damme in her p...

The Objectivist theory of education, as I have noted before, is one of the least objectionable theories in all of Randian inspired philosoph...

In comments in one of our "Understanding Objectivist Jargon" entries on the so-called "Conceptual Common Denominator" , ...