Jennifer Burns' book focuses on Rand’s development as a thinker and philosopher and connects this development with the broader conservat...

Politics of Human Nature 14: Egalitarian Envy. In an earlier “Objectivism and Politics” post, we found Rand using the phrase “ hatred of th...

From the previews of the forthcoming bio by Anne Heller, "Ayn Rand And The World She Made" the basic thesis seems to be that Rand ...

Politics of Human Nature 13: Canaille . John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, wrote that "there is a natural Aristocracy among ...

Politics of Human Nature 12: Humanitarianism and nihilism. Humanitarianism, when it becomes extreme, desperate, belligerently utopian, and ...

In comments , tenaj gives us this intriguing personal snapshot of the Nathaniel Branden Institute, and an alternative view to the one curre...

Politics of Human Nature 11: Humanitarianism and tribalism. In an earlier post , I quoted Rand characterizing “ the morality of altruism” a...

Politics of Human Nature 10: Humanitarianism and cowardice. For Rand and her followers, it is quite obvious why altruism is counter-produc...

"[I]f Ms. Heller's private comments -- and asking me to read the galleys of her new biography -- are any measure -- PARC has foreve...

Politics of Human Nature 9: Psychological source of humanitarianism’s failures. Over at YahooAnswers.com, someone calling himself “Mr. Bl...

"Unfortunately, your movement has spawned Toxic Randroid Cultists who reject reason in the application of your philosophy and who treat...

Politics of Human Nature 8: Asceticism. At one point in his Mind and Society , Pareto notes that the “principles from which the humanitaria...

Politics of Human Nature 7: Psychology of humanitarianism. In Philosophy: Who Needs It , Rand makes the following assertion: It is obvi...

Politics of Human Nature 7: Psychology and social type of the businessman. Ayn Rand imagines a polity where entrepreneurs and capitalists a...

Objectiblog 's Neil Parille looks at the ongoing campaign to invent the Perfect Rand. "A half-truth, in many issues, is more mislea...

Continuing on the series of clips ( here and here ) from Rand on Donahue back in 1979, we come to perhaps the most interesting part of the ...

Politics of Human Nature 6: The Problem of Aggression. I suggested in my previous “Objectivism & Politics” post that Rand had failed t...

The forthcoming Jennifer Burns bio of Rand, "Goddess of the Market" confirms what many have claimed over the years including your...