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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...