Politics of Human Nature 18: Economic interests and “rationality.” The current economic debacle has once and for all refuted the belief in ...

Peter Wehner over at nationalreview.com has written a brief blog post explaining why Rand's philosophy is not compatible with conservat...

Politics of Human Nature 17: Vanity and “social metaphysics.” Closely related to the obsession with preeminence and status is vanity. The p...

Over at Shtetl-Optimised, Scott Aaronson hits on a key problem with critically approaching Rand's meisterwerk - and indeed, Rand's ...

Over at Inc. magazine Rand biographer Anne Heller gives a striking interview . Like Jennifer Burns , she has quite a positive overall view...

Politics of Human Nature 16: Struggle for preeminence. Social darwinists use to argue that within society there existed a brutal “struggle ...

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Politics of Human Nature 15: Sociology of the Intellectual. In the essay “For the New Intellectual,” we find Rand insisting that “the need ...

Jennifer Burns writes for Foreign Policy about the surprising popularity of Rand's "The Fountainhead." Rand's popularity...

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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...