Religion and freedom. Peikoff, in his essay “ Religion Versus America ,” argues that religion is logically incompatible with freedom and in...

Aquinas and Rand. Peikoff, in his essay “ Religion Versus America ,” credits Thomas Aquinas, the great philosopher of Catholicism, for lead...

Did Christianity cause the Dark Ages? Peikoff, in his essay “ Religion Versus America ,” more or less claims that Christianity was responsi...

Ideas and doctrine as scapegoat. To what extent are ideas, doctrines, beliefs responsible for conduct? To what extent is any doctrine respo...

Religion as a source of comfort. The Australian philosopher David Stove, despite regarding religion as little more than a psychological “de...

Force and Faith. As is well known among her admirers, Rand saw s linkage between force and faith. “These,” she insisted, “are corollaries: ...

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...