An oldie but a goodie from Byrne and Eno. Video by Bruce Conner.

Much is being made of the supposed "uncanny similarities" between "Atlas Shrugged" and the current financial crisis. Ye...

According to the ARI's press release: Sales of “Atlas Shrugged” Soar in the Face of Economic Crisis Washington, D.C., February 23, 2009-...

Privatization of Roads. Leonard Peikoff on his mid-90s radio show on KIEV in Los Angeles stated his belief that public roads should be priv...

”It may be necessary to temporarily nationalise some banks in order to facilitate a swift and orderly restructuring,” he said. “I understand...

Regular contributor Neil Parille reviews the Objectivist approach to intellectual history. Objectivists claim to “take ideas seriously.” A...

Rand is rarely subjected much in the way of vigorous literary criticism, as most of the criticism is quickly dismissive or shamelessly adula...

Dr Keith Lockitch, resident fellow of the ARI, in last year's essay "Darwin and the Discovery of Evolution" : One widespread c...

Rearden/Mouch dichotomy. It is well known—nor would Objectivists disagree—that many businessmen want government help. What are all these ba...

Limits of free-trade. Ayn Rand and her followers are well known advocates of free trade. In her Playboy interview, Rand explained: The esse...

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...