Sexual Attraction. Rand's views on sex constitute one of the most absurd doctrines in her philosophy -- so absurd, in fact, that many O...

Incest Avoidance. The psychologist Jonathan Haidt often confronts participants in his lab experiments with the following scenario: Julie ...

The Trolley Problem. Experimental psychologists are fond of posing the following moral problem to their subjects: A trolley is hurtling d...

Commenter Anon69 makes the excellent point that by evading normal standards of criticism, Objectivism is "defenseless against rational...

Moral Philosophy = Rationalization. There are convincing and powerful reasons to believe that nearly all that passes for what might be call...

Pervasiveness of Rationalization in Human Thought. Studies of unconscious brain processes (sometimes called "alien subroutines")...

Internal Conflicts Ineradicable. Rand's vision of the rational man contained a rather odd feature: he experienced no internal conflic...

Sam Anderson, in a review of Anne Heller's biography of Rand, notes: "Eyewitnesses say that [Rand] never lost an argument." G...

Art as "fuel." For Rand, one of the primary objectives of art was to serve as a kind of spiritual sustenance or "fuel":...

“Don’t be so sure—nobody can be certain of anything.” Bertrand Russell’s gibberish to the contrary notwithstanding, that pronouncement inclu...

Photography. Ayn Rand, to the bewilderment of photographers everywhere, denies that photography is an art: A certain type of confusion abo...

Regular Contributor Neil Parille reaches out to Objectivists whose Rand sycophancy is not at the meter busting level If you’ve taken ARC...

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 ...