Before we look at the highly cultic nature of "The Logical Leap", I'd better explain some of the mechanisms a typical cult use...

So anyway, I finally got around to getting a copy of David Harriman's "The Logical Leap: Induction In Physics" . I've been...

Naturalistic Romanticism. Rand introduces one other category of hybrid Romanticism in addition to Byronism, as explained in the following p...

Ellis Weiner, author of the excellent parody Atlas Slugged: AGAIN neatly skewers the novel's, and the movement's, epic pretensions ...

"Byronic" Romanticism. With Rand's division of free will into two parts, one pertaining to consciousness and the other to exi...

Volition, consciousness, and existence. Rand's contention that Romanticism is a "volition-orientated" school of art offers a ...

Classic. (thanks bizdiets! tovarich in comments)

Apparently not. Neil Parille plumbs the latest depths of Objectivist apparatchik stupidity so you don't have to. Recently, on Diana Hsie...

"Volition" in art. With her selectivity principle well in hand, Rand proceeds to make yet another invidious distinction: An arti...

Given discussion of Atlas Shrugged's actual sales in comments, and the fact that the usual fake talking points about the so-called Libra...

The most - in fact, the only - open-minded Randian academic periodical now has its archives fully accessible. As a sample, Eric Mack runs ...

While on Friday the Atlas Shrugged movie expanded from 299 to 425 theatres, helping to boost its overall gross a little, its crucial per-cin...

Selectivity in art. In Rand's aesthetics, there is a strong tendency to over-interpret artistic works, reading into them all kinds of i...

Regular ARCHNblog commenter Laj Ogunshola delivers his verdict on the new Atlas Shrugged movie. Atlas Shrugged Pt. 1 is, first and foremost...

Box Office Mojo tells it like it is.

He must get really, really tired of that one.

The Tragic Vision (or sense) of Life. By declaring that people tend either toward a benevolent or malevolent sense of life, Rand implied th...

P. J. O'Rourke pans the new Atlas Shrugged movie in the WSJ . And he's sympathetic to Rand. The Hollywood Reporter calls it "fl...

The daughter - poignantly named Alyssa - of an Ayn Rand devotee tells her story of her father's real life application of Rand's ethi...