An Objectivist fairy tale. In previous posts, I have brought forth compelling evidence for the the view that neither "reason" nor...

Influence of sentiment on thinking In the last several “Objectivism and Politics” posts, compelling reasons have been provided for regardin...

Philosophy as derivation 2: Rand’s Ethics. In my last “Objectivism and Politics” post , I quoted Pareto’s devastating analysis of Kant’s fa...

Updating our recent chucklesome expose of James S. Valliant's obsessive self-promotional sockpuppetry on Wikipedia, he is now claiming ...

This is the ARI's latest attempt to plug Atlas's (actually largely irrelevant) message into the economic events still unfolding. Int...

Long time readers of this blog will be familiar with the strange case of James S. Valliant, former public prosecutor and author of the serio...

Philosophy as derivation 1: Kant’s Ethics. In my last “Objectivism and Politics” post , I introduced Pareto’s theory of residues and deriva...

Conservative writer David Frum demonstrates he understands cause and effect: A federal bank takeover is a bad thing obviously. I wonder tho...

A public appearance from the ARI's Harry Binswanger. Not that common an event. His media training (which he mentions in his latest email...

Objectivists often say that their project is to change the culture of the Western world (and the non-West) so it will become more accepting ...

Residues and Derivatives “Philosophy shapes a nation’s political system,” insisted Leonard Peikoff. This view assumes that ideas, theories,...

Rand's theory of Concept Formation is fundamental to her entire philosophy - and indeed with characteristic hubris she implies that it i...

A digression on methodology. Vilfredo Pareto identified two types of theories: what he called “logico-experimental” theories, founded on “ ...

Let’s examine those syllogisms I presented in the last post and find out which are valid and which are not: Syllogism A: No Gox box when in...

In The Objectivist [Feb, 1971] we find Leonard Peikoff making the following assertion about logic: Logic is man’s method of reaching conclu...

Roderick T Long over at The Austro-Athenian Empire asks us to guess the mystery author: "That idea of hardships being good for charact...

Politics and the non-rational 3: the is-ought gap revisited. In the last Objectivism and Politics post, I noted two problems with the view...

Politics and the non-rational 2: constructivism. In the last "Objectivism and Politics" post I introduced the concept of non-log...

Objectivists claim to "take ideas seriously," yet are notorious for bad arguments and worse scholarship. Regular ARCHNblog contrib...