While we're on the subject of Objectivism and the economic crisis, it seems many Objectivists are reacting to that (and the election of ...

Jeremiah Tucker revisits "Atlas Shrugged" for financial apocalypse. (hat tip to Jason at Catallaxy )

It turns out there are no true Randian individualists  in foxholes. Sharp-eyed commenter Michael Prescott notes West Virginia's BB&...

Role of deregulation in current crisis. David Horowitz, in his blog over at frontpagemag.com provides additional evidence of the role tha...

Greenspan’s primary error. Despite the howls of condemnation hurled against Greenspan by the Objectivist rabble, which hsa been fervently t...

An anonymous commenter points us to this piece posted at Objectivism Online, which claims that any proposed bailout of the auto industry i...

Greenspan’s breaking away from Objectivism. In his autobiography, The Age of Turbulence , Greenspan explains why he stopped being an orthod...

Since Rand is no longer with us, we can only guess what she might have done. Here I offer merely two possible conjectures: (1) Either she wo...

Rand’s influence on Greenspan. In his autobiography, The Age of Turbulence , Greenspan acknowledges an intellectual debt to Ayn Rand: Ayn R...

“Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, myself included, are in a state o...

Market failure: wildcat financing. After President Andrew Jackson succeeded in destroying the Bank of the United States (a great victory of...

Market failure: Greenspan’s testimony Alan Greenspan’s curious testimony before a House panel on Thursday brings forth a curious admission ...

"Human nature is probably too primitive at this time to accept Rand's ideas." - commenter Herbsewell

Here's an interesting quote from Brandon Byrd over at the ortho-Objectivist site Noodlefood. We'll have more to say about Brandon...

"This is about Ayn Rand winning, her ideas winning, so that the next centenary will include not an address by me, but by the president ...

The ARI's annual school essay contest about three of Ayn Rand's novels is, allegedly , "designed to promote critical thinking a...

Market failure: derivatives As is well known, Ayn Rand opposed any “interference” in the market by the government on moral grounds. Governm...

Government interference. In Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal , Ayn Rand wrote: If a detailed, factual study were made of all those instances i...

My original intention was to start a series of posts on Objectivism and politics. But the seriousness of the crisis in the credit and financ...

Eschatology. Eschatology is a part of theology or philosophy dealing with the ultimate destiny of humanity or end of the world. While Objec...