John McCaskey, the former ARI board member forced to resign for mild criticisms of a Peikoff protege, wrote in a blog post a few years back...

What follows is my answer to a question posed on Quora: What was Ayn Rand Wrong About? On the technical side of things, Rand was wrong ab...

Those of us who are cognizant of orthodox Objectivists at their worst knew that the discussion/debate with Jordan Peterson that was held at ...

Yaron Brook has announced that Jordan Peterson will involved in a debate/discussion entitled "Philosophy and Man's Soul" at a...

In Nathaniel Branden's essay "The Benefits and Hazards of Objectivism" we come across the following observation: The great...

In some respects, Rand's ideology of Objectivism can be seen as an over-reaction to the Marxist left. Rand lived through the Russian Rev...

Orthodox Objectivism may have been doomed from the start, simply because it was a dogmatic philosophy that prided itself on rationality and...

Below is a response to an email request concerning an answer to Patrick Neil's essay on Rand's morality:  Neil's article refu...

While it may be an exaggeration to say that orthodox Objectivism, since ARI continues to exists and apologists for that organization still e...

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt is a leading researcher and writer on what could be described as the scientific view of human nature --- ...

Scott Adams, the creator of "Dilbert," has recently gained a bit of notoriety for claiming that there is a method behind all the D...

Rand's Atlas Shrugged is easily her most polarizing novel. It's hard to be neutral about it. You either love it or you deplore it. ...

Barely a pulse: Austrian economist Richard Ebeling describes his meeting with Ayn Rand Leonard Peikoff in his old age still finds i...

Neil Parille notes the latest ripples in the Objectivist doldrums: One-time supporter of the Ayn Rand Institute (then later of David Ke...

Rand's second major novel, although a deeply flawed book, nevertheless is a work of genius and contains some of her most powerful writin...

Neil Parille notes what is notable this month: Scott Ryan, author of Objectivism and the Corruption of Rationality   has passed away. S...

The latest edition of Serial highlights the influence of Atlas Shrugged in Bowe Bergdahl's decision to quit his post. This older articl...

Anthem is a dystopian novella written in 1937. It is unique in Rand's ouvre in a number of ways. It is largely plotless (as Rand herself...

Neil Parille rounds up some recent Objectivist news from around the interwebs:  • There are forty-nine countries where Mu...

Of all of Ayn Rand's published fiction — and, indeed, of nearly all her writing, published or otherwise — We the Living is the easiest ...