In this audio recording, Joey Rothbard gives us a laugh-out-loud portrait of the Murray Rothbard/Objectivism schism, including the famous a...

Laissez-faire as a rationalization for fraud. In her essay “The Nature of Government,” Ayn Rand wrote, A unilateral breach of contract invo...

James Valliant's "The Passion of Ayn Rand's Critics" is to literary biography what "Plan 9 From Outer Space" wa...

Dishonesty, cheating, and theft. A recent study by the Josephson Institute found that 30% of today’s teenagers admit to having shop lifted ...

Schumpeter’s challenge. The economist Joseph Schumpeter created quite a stir in the forties when he warned that “the capitalist order tends...

We noted this oddity back in 2007. No surprises how it turned out . NEW YORK (AP) -- A construction official falsely billed $1.2 million fo...

Rand’s “objective” value theory. Austrian economics ascribes to what is called the “subjective value” theory: An individual's actions a...

Objectivism and Austrian Economics: Salsman as “hyper-inflationist.” Stefan Karlsson over at mises.org complained a few years ago that man...

Objectivism and Austrian Economics: entrepreneurship. Richard Salsman is on record for criticizing von Mises’ “(absurd) theory of the essen...

Objectivism and Austrian Economics: Salsman’s Revisionism. In the recommended bibliography of Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal , one finds mor...

The Fed. According to Jerome Tuccille, Alan Greenspan once testified in front of congressional committee that if it were up to him (i.e., G...

Ayn Rand at Alan Greenspan's inauguration as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, 197 4. Currently the Ayn Rand Institute is en...

Former Objectivist and regular ARCHNblog commenter Michael Prescott replies to current Objectivist and regular ARCHNblog commenter John Don...

For reasons unknown, the sidebar disappears unless I insert a post above the "Ethics Of Emergencies" post. So here it is.

Continuing our para by para examination of Rand's "The Ethics of Emergencies" (Earlier Parts here ). Paragraph 9: Most men do ...

Jason Sieckmann has requested that one of us at ARCHN provide "a list of [his] top ten fave philosophy books." Since this seems l...

Guest commenter Neil Parille finds that some of the classic Objectivist talking points on religion are in fact simple misunderstandings: Ayn...

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&...