In response to a commenter who claims that ARCHNbloggers like myself are too "cowardly" to go on Objectivist sites and debate the...

Box Office Mojo reports on Atlas Shrugged III's opening weekend : The three-part adaptation of Ayn Rand's  Atlas Shrugged  ended ...

Just 9 more sleeps to go. 

This is actually somewhat old news (several months old), but apparently there's been a rather startling defection from the ARI/Peikoff/O...

Apologies are due to a number of commenters here. Looking back on the blog's spam filter I see a number of comments from genuine writers...

Peikoff's Legacy. How will Leonard Peikoff be remembered by future Objectivists? Will even the orthodox remember him all that fondly? W...

John McCaskey, the candid Objectivist. Whereas many Objectivists, especially from the older generation, come off as a bit insular and even ...

John Allison IV, the sociable Objectivist . Although Yaron Brook is generally seen as a protege of Leonard Peikoff, there is another man who...

Yaron Brook, orthodox reformer. Viewed from afar, Yaron Brook seems little more than a narrow, sectarian shill for a Peikoffian version of ...

Darren in comments points us to his careful dissection of some Randian shell games typical of her epistemology. Not a lot to disagree with...

Barbara Branden has died. The Los Angeles Times obit is here .

Preservation of Orthodoxy. Some Objectivists, following Leonard Peikoff's example, wish to preserve orthodoxy. They desire to prevent ...

Danger of Charismatic Leader. In my last post, I explored some of the difficulties which will arise with the weakening of a "legitimat...

Authority in Objectivism. One of the challenges for ARI moving forward is to deal with the problem of authority. In any organization there ...

Intro. Having gone through most of the official philosophy of Objectivism, we can now turn our attention to some of the cultural and sociol...

Conclusion . Many years ago someone handed me a copy of Rand's Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology and said, "This will help y...

The rationalist core of the Objectivist Epistemology. Ayn Rand defined rationalists as "those who claimed that man obtains his knowled...

Meaning, precision, and vagueness . In the final chapter of Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology , Rand introduces some rather peculiar ...

Cognitive Role of Concepts . In her Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology , Rand sought to solve the "problem" of universals, w...