Documents reveal that Leonard Peikoff, the founder of ARI and the heir to Ayn Rand's literary estate, gave $297 to Donald Trump's M...

Anne Heller, as long ago as 2009, published her biography of Ayn Rand. I have finally gotten around to reading it and will at some point mak...

UPB: Criterion for ethics . Universally preferable behavior, which is the core concept of Molyneux’s ethical speculations, is not an easy ...

UPB: The necessary premises of debating, pt. 2 . Molyneux argues in his book Universally Preferable Behavior that denying his theory of mo...

UPB 4: The necessary premises of debating 1 . Molyneux’s sophistry reaches its apex when he commences on the thankless task of “validating”...

UPB 3: Preferences and morality . In his book Universal Preferable Behavior, Molyneux begins his disquisition on ethics by comparing assert...

UPB 2: Foundationalism and logic . Central to Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism is the largely unsubstantiated assertion that the “objectivit...

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...