I won't be posting much for a while as I'm busy launching a new business, among other things. Greg will be posting as the spirit mov...

The Role of Myth. In my last post, I briefly analyzed some of the issues dealing with trying to determine how religious beliefs affect indi...

“One of the greatest distortions [of social analysis] views [historical phenomenon] as the consequences of certain logical interpretations o...

Man, the religious animal. “Man is by his constitution a religious animal,” averred Burke. This statement, if taken as a generalization, is...

Militant atheism. Does disbelief in God entail hostility toward religion? Militant atheists answer: Yes, it does, because God poisons every...

Keeping it moody and indie, herewith The National.

Post-Rational Morality. Objectivism presents itself as a rational system of ethics. Indeed, Rand goes so far as to suggest that her system ...

Randian virtues: pride. The worst and most fatuous of the Randian virtues, displaying an obtuseness to the human condition that is really l...

Randian virtues: productiveness. Finally, a virtue we can all agree on! Or is it? Leave it to Rand to screw up even the most obvious virtue...

In Objectivism, much is made of "focussing" your mind as the basis of gaining a proper grip on reality. Dr Leonard Piekoff calls t...

Randian virtues: justice. This is the most ambigious of Rand’s virtues. Justice means different things to different people. For some people...

Randian virtues: honesty. This is the least controversial of Rand’s virtues. The problem is the arguments Rand presented to defend it: Hon...

I received an email this morning from Chris Colin, a columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle , who has written an article flirting with th...

Randian virtues: integrity. This is another one of Rand’s more questionable virtues. She introduces and explicates the virtue as follows : ...

'Some day I'll find out whether I'm an unusual specimen of humanity in that my instincts and reason are so inseparably one, with...

The ARCHNblog welcomes an interesting new voice in the firmament: Henry Scuoteguazza's Check Your Premises blog. What differentiates He...

Question from audience: [muffled audio which sounds like:] "...why is this culture..." [loud noise which sounds as if it represent...

Neil Parille continues his exploration of Ayn Rand's much vaunted originality as a philosopher. Epistemological Realism Ayn Rand is an ...

Randian virtues: independence. Since independence can mean different things to different people, it is best to begin by going straight to R...

While we're on the subject of Randian ethics, it's worth noting that there has been considerable campaign of late to relegate Rand...