Rand on rock music. While Rand was well known for being outspoken to the point of palpable rudeness, she could become, when she wanted to, ...

Seeing commenter A was in the mood for something a little denser, we are happy to oblige. Update: Seemed a bit glitchy, so here's the s...

Rand on "modern music." Ayn Rand's most extended published take on "modern music" appears in her "Art and Cogn...

In reply to this post , an Anon Rand fan writes : I see that Daniel Barnes is still doing his dishonest blathering. He writes: “On p26, Harr...

Rand's aesthetic judgments about music. We get the full sense of the subjective and arbitrary character of Rand's aesthetics when w...

Rand's theory of music. Rand's views on music reveal far more about her basic modus operandi than they do about music. Her theory ...

I was expecting The Logical Leap: Induction In Physics to be really, really terrible, and I have not been disappointed. Just to get a good ...

Yes, it's Atlas Shrugged Pt 2 . Estimated budget of Pt 1: $20m Current domestic gross of Pt 1: $4.6m ( via Boxofficemojo.com )

At bottom, Objectivist epistemology is based on a fundamental fallacy which leads at first to verbalism and then to an authoritarian turn. T...

Style and "psycho-epistemology." With her over-emphasis on selectivity, her sense of life construct, and her invidious distinctio...

Style in literature. Rand's remarks on literary style begin rather innocuous and vague, but quickly take on more sinister connotations ...

Plot-theme. Rand introduces yet another poorly thought out aesthetic construct. She explains "plot-theme" as follows: A cardinal ...

We here at the ARCHNblog have long said that Rand's arguments are so intensely confused even her devotees are unable to extract coherent...

Plot and character. When asked to name the three most important elements in fiction, Rand replied, "Plot, plot, plot." For Rand, ...

If "The Logical Leap" is a Rand-cult book, we should expect it to conform strictly to the Prime Directive of cultism: that the Ay...

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 ...