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Sunday, May 10, 2020

Slouching Toward the Next Schism

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There are the makings of a potential schism at ARI. Since 1985, Carl Barney, whose made millions in the education industry, was ARI's la...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Molyneux and the Objectivist Tradition 1

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UPB: intro . Stefan Molyneux’s theory of Universally Preferable Behavior (i.e., UPB) is an attempt to establish moral principles on the same...
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Sunday, April 05, 2020

The Objectivist "Tradition" Going Forward

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Philosophical traditions, like viruses, must mutate if they wish to remain relevant even among their adherents. Orthodox Objectivism has re...
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Saturday, March 21, 2020

Objectivism and COVID-19

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the response from government presents various challenges to the political ideology of Objectivism, since it prese...
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Thursday, July 18, 2019

Objectivism vs. Sam Harris

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To say that Sam Harris entertains a low opinion of Ayn Rand and her disciples would be something of an understatement. He once referred to R...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

The Evolution of Orthodox Objectivism

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The Ayn Rand Institute has recently introduced a new set of YouTube videos, many of them hosted by Dave Rubin, called " Objectivism on ...
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Sunday, January 06, 2019

Did Rand read Kant?

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In an interview, Shoshana Milgram, Rand's "official" biographer, is asked whether Rand ever read Kant. Given how far Rand...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

McCaskey: "Rand doesn’t follow the conventional standards of logic"

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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...
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Monday, July 23, 2018

What was Ayn Rand Wrong About?

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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...
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Monday, July 02, 2018

Peterson at OCON: A Quick and Dirty Review

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Those of us who are cognizant of orthodox Objectivists at their worst knew that the discussion/debate with Jordan Peterson that was held at ...
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Friday, June 22, 2018

Jordan Peterson is going to OCON

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Yaron Brook has announced that Jordan Peterson will involved in a debate/discussion entitled "Philosophy and Man's Soul" at a...
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Thursday, June 07, 2018

Objectivism: an Autopsy, Part 4

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In Nathaniel Branden's essay "The Benefits and Hazards of Objectivism" we come across the following observation: The great...
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Friday, January 05, 2018

Objectivism: An Autopsy, Part 3

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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...
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Monday, July 24, 2017

Orthodox Objectivism: An Autopsy, Part 2

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Orthodox Objectivism may have been doomed from the start, simply because it was a dogmatic philosophy that prided itself on rationality and...
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Brief Re-visitation of Is-Ought Problem

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Below is a response to an email request concerning an answer to Patrick Neil's essay on Rand's morality:  Neil's article refu...
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Friday, March 10, 2017

Orthodox Objectivism: an Autopsy, Part 1

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While it may be an exaggeration to say that orthodox Objectivism, since ARI continues to exists and apologists for that organization still e...
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Thursday, February 02, 2017

Haidt versus Rand

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Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt is a leading researcher and writer on what could be described as the scientific view of human nature --- ...
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Tuesday, August 02, 2016

Ayn Rand as Word-Thinker and Persuader

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Scott Adams, the creator of "Dilbert," has recently gained a bit of notoriety for claiming that there is a method behind all the D...
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Friday, June 17, 2016

Rand's Novels 4: Atlas Shrugged

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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. ...
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Thursday, June 02, 2016

Objectivist Roundup

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