Human nature and politics. Rand's politics is not entirely free of the contagion of her view of man. Rand's so-called "philoso...

Human nature and ethics. Among Rand's more enlightened admirers, there is a tendency to simply ignore Rand's obvious cluelessness a...

Human Nature and epistemology. Some Objectivists, particularly of the non-orthodox variety, are willing to admit that Rand's theory of ...

Rand's arguments against innate predispositions . As far as I can make out, Rand made two arguments against innate predispositions: (1) ...

Reason becomes the thinking man's Hello magazine in this new piece devoted to energetically fluffing the Atlas Shrugged 2 movie. Am...

Atlas Shrugged Part 1 and human nature. With the threatened second version of Atlas Shrugged beginning production, I finally got around t...

"Atlas Shrugged Part 2", featuring an all new cast, has started shooting . This time it will work, really.

Gary Weiss' new tome, Ayn Rand Nation , looks to be the first critical examination of Rand from the Left that we've seen since Ellis...

Innate components of religion. Objectivism considers religion a mere execrescence of irrationality, a product of wrong premises misintregra...

Rationality within the limits of human nature . Rand regarded "reason" as the supreme virtue: "I am not primarily an advocate...

Human nature and "reason." Rand places enormous stress on individual conscious reasoning. "Reason" is her chief moral v...

Noted investigative journalist Gary Weiss , author of 2006's ahead-of-the-curve "Wall St Versus. America" , puts the spotlight...

The gift that keeps on giving.

For fans of Objectivist Kremlinology everywhere, a bunch of little-known ARI enthusiasts have set up a new site, www.checkingpremises.org . ...

Psychopaths, vmPFC damage, and whim-worship. One of the central doctrines of Objectivism is the necessity of a "rational," ...

Emotions as a form of Cognition. From Rand's writings, it is not always clear what role the emotions are supposed to play in her system...

If all goes well, we will soon be graced with yet another tome on Objectivism: namely, Understanding Objectivism: A Guide to Learning Ayn Ra...

"The hallmark of such mentalities is the advocacy of some grand scale public goal, without regard to context, costs, or means. Out of ...

Emotions as adaptive. Emotions are not tools of cognition, according to Rand. If this is true, why do people have emotions at all? What ro...

Gratitude as social glue. In Out of Character , David Desteno and Piercarlo Valdesolo make the following research-inspired remarks about gr...